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    How do I turn a $1000 trade to $100,000 within a year instead of 10 years?

    Approximately 250 trading days, with compounding an average daily of return of 1.86% would be needed.
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    HERE is how to make money consistently trading the open

    Had a quick look at the Larry Pesavento stuff and decided it was bollox. Its not like you, if you are who are who you sound like to quote such stuff. Obviously any time at which there is a burst of volatity can be traded, therefore its best to determine when those times will occur and be...
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    Backtesting and automated trading.

    I suggest that you should first learn how to trade successfully and only then consider how to automate a method. You may find that the successful methods rely so heavily on human judgement that they can not be automated, also that those methods that are easily automated fail to make a profit...
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    In that case the target should be the stop, and vice versa.
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    I think that looking at the past to gain insights for what to do now is no bad thing http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/quotations/lessons_of_history.html "Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong...
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    The day to day psychology of a trader

    He is into spirituality, likes talking to himself and has no grip on reality https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/spirituality-videos.259035/
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    Without a definitive response from the OP the point of the thread can be whatever you or anyone else thinks it should be.
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    Zero Lag Filtering

    The time lag for the information that is being filtered is ever present and can't be avoided.
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    FXCM Discussion

    Whats this about Javascript as I can't see any link or reference to this in the latest version of FXCM Trading station. As far as I can see all indicators and strategies use Lua.
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    To be banned is an opportunity for a new persona to emerge. I've lost count of how often he has done this here and on T2W.
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    JUST STARTED

    Yeah, the shortest retirement in history, maybe the plane had a puncture. Strange that no one has asked him to account for his inconsistency - I've never been impressed with the guy. I'm no expert and don't claim to be, but I was pleasantly surprised that no interest was shown in your recent...
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    Informal survey on the accuracy of indicators

    Thats not practical for real signals, as any attempt to compensate for phase lag will also amplify noise. In a trading context the last thing you would want to do is artifically increase uncertainty in your trading signals.
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    Informal survey on the accuracy of indicators

    Pass a discrete sine wave through a moving average and there is a phase lag, its basic signal processing/control theory.
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    Advice

    A wise man once told me that when someone inflicts BS on you, then reply with similar BS and you'll beat them at their own game.
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    Can you reverse engineer a trading strategy by just looking at trades?

    Thats a very bizarre comment, and harsh too, its certainly bad judgement, maybe you were in a bad mood at the time. I know that J_S has been on this site and others for many years under various names.
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    Algorithms for sale

    Looks like gkishot is an astrologer, which makes his/her crediblity zero: http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?p=260707#post260707 Talking out of his/her Uranus !
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    These arguments/discussions of trading being or not being gambling are simply because of people talking at cross purposes. The issue concerns defining what gambling is, and then determining if your particular form of money making activity matches that definition. My definition of gambling is...
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    Brexit - The aftermath

    As far as day trading is concerned its an opportunity to be embraced.
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    Why Is The Obvious Not So Obvious?

    I voted to remain. Better the devil that you know, than the devil that you don't.
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