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I'm presently using Wealth-Lab as an autotrading platform with IB. For the most part it is working well. However, support for non-Fidelity organizations can only get worse. Furthermore, there are other things that I would like to do with my auto-trading software. Faster optimizations would be...

Traderix, What currency futures does the afternoon breakout work best with in your experience? Richard

The profit factor is actually the sum profits of all the profitable trades divided by the sum losses of all losing trades. Which is much different from what you're using. Personally, I look at the reward/risk from the point of view of net profit divided by the largest drawdown. For me this...

FYI, check out his relative rating vis a vis other gurus: http://www.cxoadvisory.com/gurus/ My commiserations go out to Fleck at 27% accuracy.

Congrats go out again to Aaron; this time for the nice "trader profile" in Futures magazine (November issue). It should be good to bring in more capital into the fund. I wish you continued success. Richard

Welcome to ET. Sadly, this is what happens here much too often. Richard PS. I ordered your book yesterday. I'm looking forward to reading it. I hope it's as rigorous as it's been made out to be.

Went to Amazon.com to order this book. According to Amazon there was just one left in stock. I ordered, supposedly, the last copy. I received an email confirmation that it will be sent on November 7; this is one week away. (What would have happened if I had specified overnight delivery?) Doesn't...

"I trade 8 different strategies. " Are they all trading the same instrument? "the best strategy has a profit to drawdown ratio of about 13 to one." Are your profit and drawdown expressed in absolute dollar terms? If so, I've found that this ratio is very much dependent on the length of...

Serious explanation: you cut losses short and let profits run (which does not have anything to do with TA).

In line with the metaphor that Hilary "carries a lot of excess baggage" then Obama doesn't even have any carry-on.

Do a web search for Metatrader. It's free software and it will solve your automation needs as well.

Agyar, Your results look very good to me. In fact, they may be too good; but you may have something here. For a system that uses llimit orders to get in, I'd be very careful in a backtest with any assumption that you got in at the price you think. However, you did say that you only entered...

trader28, Is there any reason you chose to trade ER2 and not the SPI with this method? Richard

Print Scrn should work. Try these steps (very close to what has already been mentioned). 1) Highlight the window which has the graphic that you want to save. Do this by clicking on it. 2) Press Alt-Print Scrn (holding the Alt key down, press Print Scrn) 3) Start up the Paint program...

psytrade, I have an early 33 page version of this book which was entitled "How to Design Your Own Trading System". I thought what he was saying was very basic. Do you think his finished book you mentioned above is worth getting? Does he actually go through the design of worthwhile system?

Of course, the greater the allowed drawdown, the greater the potential profit. Greater risk --> Greater profit. I'm interested to know, what's special about your position sizing routine? Richard

alphastocks, What is your initial stock universe that you choose your stocks from? e.g. Valuelne timeliness 1 and 2, Investor Business Daily Weekend In Review stocks, Zacks etc. If none of these, what source do you use for objective fundamental data? BTW, congratulations on your...

Hi Mark, I'm not in Seattle but "close by" in Portland, OR. I trade ES and ER2 and have developed a number of auto-trading strategies. If you're ever down in Portland be sure to contact me. I too like to get together with other traders. Richard

So how much is SmartQuant? Richard

diligent, You may want to check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtosis In particular, read about leptokurtosis or leptokurtic distributions.