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I have never used Matlab, only Amibroker. Stay away from anything involving Jack Hershey. He has never made any money trading. He has an interesting style of writing and is quite a cult leader, but you can't believe anything he posts.

Do you use the entire 6 months of data for in-sample testing, or do you reserve some of it for out-of-sample confirmation of in-sample results?

What platform are you using for the back testing? I have not found it to be that reliable. Actual trading varies significantly, and the shorter the time frame, the worse it gets. I can't imagine relying on a back test over just one week. Back test a martingale over a week that was choppy with...

The point about the cockroaches, is that a system that keeps working through all kinds of market environments is going to be something simple. Something like a cockroach that eats crumbs and scuttles out of the way when larger animals are about. So it should be back testable over a long time...

Cockroaches haven't changed in hundreds of millions of years.

Well, they can do without the smokes, which probably are not helping the sick kid's cough.

Years, and the longer the better.

Try this http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44092 and this http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=10237&perpage=6&pagenumber=30 What platform are you going to use for your back testing?

I don't wtf the US is waiting for. Most of the western world is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. I say drill, lubricate the wheels of commerce, and let OPEC go bankrupt.

The class action lawsuits will allege disparate impact on some protected group, such as the poor, who are mostly black and latino, and therefore screening out the unemployed amounts to racial discrimination. The lawsuits may also allege that the long-term unemployed tend to be either younger or...

It's also difficult to accelerate growth if you have cheap, abundant energy but are unwilling to use it, like oil shale reserves in the rockies greater than all the oil in Saudia Arabia, or oil at low depths below the ocean floor off the coast of California, or oil in ANWAR. Drill baby...

What is oneness should have said is that "he needs to get his head out of his ass". 2012 Campaign ad: Need a job? Put Obama on unemployment. Paid for by the Committee for "Anyone Else is Better".

If the economy gets much worse in the US, the illegal immigrant problem will take care of itself to some degree. Illegals will start heading back across the border for higher wages and more affordable health care.

Short term pain is better than long term pain unless you're a politician with an election coming up. That is one of the major shortcomings of the election system in the US.

If you think the stock is a bargain at a 10% divy, just wait until it gets to a 100% divy. That divy can be terminated by a PR tomorrow, and then what happens to the stock price? As far as BP's earning power goes, how much does it cost to clean-up the gulf of spilled oil, meet all of the...

@Robert Weinstein: Dude, your position in this stock is waaaaaaaaaaaay too big. It's phukking with your head.

What comes after the knowledge economy? You sound like a buy-and-hold investor, somewhat Buffettesqe. I don't know if your premise is sound. Rome had its day, but hasn't been much of a power since about 471 AD. Spain was quite a power in her day too, but was eclipsed by the British...

If you send him a domain suggestion he likes, register it for $10 and sell it to him for $500.

Hmmm, sounds like a recession proof business. I think the important thing in this political and economic environment is to not get completely demoralized. If you lose all hope and think all your efforts are in vain, you won't even try. All the energy drains right out of you. You have to...

Looks like the only choices then are illegal immigration to Canada or finding a nice bridge to live under in California. I still think they could a get a business going. Even illegals do that in California. Some start out offering gardening services, and gradually work their way up from there.