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Long/short swing trader of US stocks All trades and current holdings will be displayed for everyone to see New trades initiated will be written about before the market opens http://openbooktrader.wordpress.com/

Thanks for the reply. However for a broad index like, say, the S&P 500, there are some index stocks that seem to hold up better than the index itself. If you held one of these stocks, would you sell simply because the index showed signs of weakness or hold on since the stock showed signs...

What do you mean when you say that an index has to conform to its stocks?

When the market (=index) is strong, a lot of the breakouts tend to have a follow through. And when the market is weak, even uptrending stocks have a hard time sustaining their trend. Do you guys sell a stock which seems to be holding up well just because the market made, say, a lower low or...

wow that's pretty good man. keep it up. any chance of disclosing how the system works?

nice performance man. are you following a mechanical trading system for this?

I've learned a lot from Chuck Le Beau's website at www.traderclub.com as I myself am a fairly mechanical trader. In the site, he has a simple long-only stock trading system which seems to backtest well during weak markets...

Have you guys found similarities between these good backtests that failed in actual trading? Maybe by looking at their similarities and spelling them out we will have an idea on whether a good backtest is likely to fail in actual trading. For example, just for the sake of argument, maybe one...

I'm a stock trader and with the use of a mechanical trading system, I believe I've had some moderate success with respect to my return and drawdown preferences. Still, I remain mindful that my system is bound to fail eventually. With that, how have your properly backtested systems failed in...