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Your first post ever on ET was over a year ago and you've posted over 400 times since then... why does it take so long for a Wharton grad to ascertain if other Wharton grads comment on ET, being that you solicit comments here but claim to place merit on posts from Wharton grads and dismiss others?

So why bother soliciting comments on ET if you place merit in posts by Wharton graduates and dismiss others on the basis that they did not attend Wharton?

If I understand you correctly, you divide price, presumably the close, into the index's close and then create an EMA out of the quotient. Then you multiply the price by that EMA. Then using that result as a price series in and of itself, you trade breakouts and pullbacks. At first, I thought...

This always makes me curious, so, what would you do next with SOHU: see if it reverses up and breaks through the previously established trendline you have in the candle chart you posted, or do you reconfigure the trendline to extend to today's low instead if today turns out to be a reversal?

That criteria rules out most of the most succesful traders and people in the world. You may use it, as you often do, to dismiss the messenger, as that's your style, but it's not a basis for dismissing the accuracy of any message.

"Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom" is the book by Van Tharpe. The single best thing about this book is the strategy of position sizing. The rest is so-so and spawns fodder for threads about things like random-entry systems which isn't really what this book teaches. Keep in mind that the title...

Maybe, but not because of any matter of wit here. Mr. Market doesn't have to mention any specific site, he referenced a site as being his, by writing "my site". That's good enough. There are other posts where he gives the URL to one of his sites at the time, it may or may not be that site that...

Understand that my analysis of Mr. Market's returns (12% per trade average - holding period 4 months average) is based on my assumption of his reinvesting the capital as per the trade sequence I spelled out and how so. I presented what I think was the best scenario possible. Only Mr. Market can...

OK. What I did was put your trades in chronological order, best I could deem, so I could get a picture of how you parlay a hypothetical investment of $10,000. Everytime one of these $10,000 investments parlayed through the trades until and if it turned into something you were holding as of...

You may develop a sense for the stock you trade, insofar as being able to tell if the drop is an over-reaction which may give you the idea to stay put until others bid it back up somewhat. That wouldn't be a progressive selloff, but a spike.

I've noticed the same problem. The allocation differs. I've also noticed that if I open the "account" window and view any particular account, that subsequently if I create an order line, for positions to enter or exit, the amount of contracts/shares will reflect the same amount of whatever last...

It suggests that one or more of the logged backtested trades is skewing your results. You need to look through them to see. it's going to be something like one or so particular trades made a great profit or less loss when you used X as a target/stop, or that your system didn't permit you to...

This is answered in those late night "save the children" spots on TV, the part in those broadcasts where they have the guy standing beside a huge 100 pound assortment of canned and boxed goods. That's when they tell you that you could send that much food (though it's not the most nutritous food...

Well, yeah, 'trailing your exit' in a manner of speaking, but that doesn't necessarily mean using a trailing stop. It could be more like 'monitoring the trade for weakness' for an exit, a la phantom of the pit. Then you know the trade/market has given you just about what it could.

It occurs to me that you can use Amibroker for charting purposes as well, both real-time and EOD, so for a couple of hundred bucks, doesn't that make it a rather economical charting software package alone?

I think a likely scenario would be that, seeing how companies don't go bankrupt merely because their stock price goes down, there would be an initial "why did XYZ Corp spike down" question that would appear on this forum, and concurrently, savvy institutions holding the stock would quickly...

They've probably switched to Suze Orman.

The way I've always understood that to mean was not about playing the open, it was that the open until conciliation reflects the behavior and opinion largely of the "crowd": retail investors who placed a trade before going to work, or last night, and the majority of these types of traders around...

Here's something I've wondered about: "Democratic" means "of, or belonging to, or upholding democracy", while "Republican" means "of, or belonging to, the Republican Party" [Webster's]. It seems to me that the Democrats have permitted the noble term "democratic" to apply to themselves and their...

I'm bowing out of this thread rather than responding. It's a fool's argument now. mm's responses are just another round of ducking questions, disregarding points, putting twists and spins on comments and just plain arrogance. Just like the last thread, nothing's improved.