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Well, you are right in that they replaced the Close with AdjClose, but the new AdjClose is not the same as the old Close. The quotes seems to be (or could be) adjusted for splits and dividends now, but only for a certain period going back in time. The Close is not adjusted: [...] Date Open...

It looks like Yahoo is making adjustments to their maladjusted prices. This was a recent sample for XRX a few days ago: [...] Date Open High Low Close AdjClose Volume 20/06/17 28,73 28,88 28,31 28,33 28,09 2443700 19/06/17 28,72 28,99 28,54 28,79 28,54 3163700 16/06/17 27,88 28,84 27,84 28,50...

Actually, I have less than one: almost half the pixels got burnt (made in China).

Hey, even 10,000$ is not that much, we are speaking quadrillions here.

I meant 10,000$. I changed "," with "." (Italian standard).

I did it last week when I was learning how to trade. I can teach anyone how to do it for a measly 10.000$. GS

Yes I know it was more of a "challenge" aroused with Tom Basso in one of his seminars. However, Tharp reported it in his book, thus implicitly attributing value to it. But then, as you said, if your market is trending it really doesn't mean WHEN you entry as long as you entry on the right...

Van Tharp was wrong on this one. Having a good entry is a very important part of most systems. Random entry has been attempted many times and, when done properly, never produced better than random results. If you go to www.wealth-lab.com you can see people wrote several scripts to test several...

Back to the original topic and resuming. Psychology alone won’t make you profitable. You need a good system first. Balls alone won’t make you profitable. On the contrary, if balls is everything you’ve got, you are very likely to blow up faster and more spectacularly. Brain alone...

I do the same. GS

My posts are long because I know what I'm talking about. When there is some topic I'd like to know more about but don't master yet, I listen and learn. So if you like psychology I think I could even be your teacher. But you'll have to say "please". And then you'll have to pay me and it will...

Among all the statements you did so far this is probably the most arguable and poorly based on evidence. If there is one thing that many Europeans admire and even envy in Americans is just pragmatic common sense. Hey, I'm not saying this is necessarily true but this is the way many Italians, for...

I currently trade equities but that's actually not very important. RF is simply final net equity / max drawdown, both in $ or %. So you choose your time horizon and your max DD level, relative to what you have. Personally, I like to see RF above 10 as a bare minimum on at least 10 years of daily...

The length of your last post shows that you're probably unsure of your arguments, and you're right. Think about it. You are trying to replace quality with quantity, just as you previously did trying to replace substance with boldness. But quantity alone is rarely a good substitute for quality...

I know. Please read above. :)

I'd suggest you tell to that "someone" that if he doesn't like the way he ended up, to change again and be someone else. Not joking. Change can be very fast. For example he could take one of Richard Bandler's seminars and that "someone" will never be the same again, even if he doesn't officially...

I found recovery factor to be a very useful figure besides Sharpe. It takes implicitly into account not only all the individual trades and their variability, but also the time sequence in which they occurred because max drawdown is considered in it. The same set of trades could have produced a...

Also, let's not forget the "don't masturbate yourself too much or you'll get blind" :) The doctors I tend to trust the best are those who say "stay as far away as you can from doctors". And I'd also extend this to psychology, if you are speaking in a clinical sense (also because, among other...

kiwi_trader, You deserve respect as your posts are often insightful and even amusing, but as you freely stated a couple days ago, you entered this discussion without reading the whole thread. So, I suggest you to do it so you can see that before my discussion with JA_LDP, I had already stated...

Hi traderdragon I read from your posts that you're being successful with your mechanical, backtested systems so I congratulate you for that. I have a couple of questions, if you don't mind. How long has your systems "survived" on average since they went live? How do you decide when...