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Me just excel and vba, but that's all I could learn because I don't have a programming background. I find it great, but I can't compare it with anything else.

Who are they? Fund managers. Everywhere I read that if a fund makes a 20% return every year it is considered to be a very good fund. Well, I would consider that a low return, since, as you can also see from those real money trading tournaments, we can achieve 100% per month.

This was BlackMage's answer to a previous post in which I mixed up the two types of automation. I want to state again what I understood the difference to be, because I've been reading about the "algo trading" (I had already printed a bunch of articles on it, and I ended up reading them)...

I am sorry I am too ignorant to reply to your posts. You're using too many terms and concepts that I ignore.

I like these two posts - this one above and the first post. This leads us to the point of the "psychology" sub-forum, which is to help the trader solve those psychological problems that keep him from being profitable. After trying to do so for over ten years, the only solution I found was to...

Even if he did, wouldn't you be rude in saying so? Are we here to offend each other or to try to learn something?

Good point. I'll give you my info, since I wrote a few posts here stating that a winning method CAN be learned (in my opinion the way to go is automated system trading), and I registered in 2002. Been learning to trade since 1997. Lost money every year between 1998 and 2006 (I didn't trade...

Personally, I wouldn't add all these emotions to it, as many are doing. Nobody is plotting against retail traders. It just happens that if you don't have a winning method (as I explained earlier at length) you'll win one every two trades (in the long run, more or less, and just to simplify). If...

You're saying 30 dollars a day on the forex, right? But if you traded the same system on the equivalent future contract wouldn't it make 300 dollars per day? 6000 dollars a month? What if you could apply that same system on 3 other forex futures, investing the same capital (while it's not being...

It's not fair that some of us are writing pages and pages about what they think and others come and dismiss them with just two lines, calling them sometimes "pathetic", other times "loser" (it happened to me), other times "worthless". Why don't you write a few pages yourself, on how things could...

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Quantitative-Trading/Ernie-Chan/e/9780470284889 Chapter 8 of Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business by Ernie Chan just raised and answered a question I had always been wondering about: how does an independent trader with...

It is true though, that if we thought trading was like the roulette (random walk hypothesis), as he seems to be thinking, over time, the % of winners would tend to zero. Even if you neglected the fact that you don't have a 50/50 chance but only 19/37 chance (because of the "0"). Indeed, even...

The post I understood, about his beginnings, was very interesting. The rest I didn't understand, but I can tell by his first post that he's in good faith and not trying to sell us anything. So, if anything, those of us who don't understand should apologize for our ignorance. It's true that...

I don't think we have a way of knowing the probability of that happening to us. And whether it's likely or not, being on the safe side won't hurt. I'll devote my time to it, once I'll feel I have a capital and a system to protect. Most likely, when that'll happen, I will also have a lot of free...

All right, thanks for the insight. I hope you are right. It sounds reasonable but the other post was saying the opposite and it also sounded reasonable...

Well, thanks for explaining it. I was getting really puzzled by these similar terms meaning different things. On the link I provided above there are indeed interesting things for us, but that are not related to the section of this forum or to "automated trading" as we mean it. In fact, also...

This seems very good, even though it only has 200 active users out of 10137 users: http://www.smartquant.com/forums/

Maybe this is not a forum, but I just found it and it looks very promising in terms of resources: http://www.automatedtrader.net/

Very very interesting post... it made me think and it made me even more paranoid than I already was. BUT. But... so a lot of "newbies" could also be geniuses in disguise. A lot of people saying automated trading doesn't work could be lying about it... many possible conspiracies. So all those...

I didn't understand very much of your last posts either, but I don't have a scientific background, so it's all Greek to me. I understood your first post, telling us about your early trading experiences when there were no data available, nor computers. I was fascinated by it.