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30. Costa rica. 5 years on and off as part time trader. Full time bond broker.

here is the parabolic chart. bloomberg woulndt let me do both at the same time. i played with the AF factor of the parabolics. lokks like it does close to te same thing with a .1 af factor (whatever the hell that is). nice call. it still has the problem of late signals. i think with...

looks like the first graph yield about 8-10 points of upside potential whereas "buy and hold" would have been roughly half that...

there it is. ok now here is a triple moving average on the qqqq with a much longer term moving average...you are lucky to break even. whereas the previos obviosly made $$. IS this the first time you have heard of this? it seems that most people use 1 system, and test the securities to see...

lets see if i can post the graph in a different format....

The unique aspect is that the time frame for the MAs is customized to where they DO work...I wish my stinking bloomberg screen would upload!!!!! YOu are right that if you take the average 4-9-15 or 50-100 day moving average, it will not prove to be profitable.

didnt upload...my bad. i guess we will just have to imagine!

I am not sure of what you mean by "optimize". i disagree that moving average are only good in the long run... here is a graph of QQQQ with a very short term moving average. 1-3-5 day. If i change that to a 7 20, 90 day moving average, the trade becomes unprofitable. sorry for the...

great question. The last few months i have been trading only one sector unprofitably. I think it is vital to have several small bets in unrelated sectors to take advantage of different moves for different reasons. If i am down in one sector, i want to be able to compensate with an...

maybe i didnt make myself clear. the system is not complete yet. it uses moving averages for trending...but i need something else to compliment it. maybe a stop (or entry) using a point above or below the previos days high or low?

The idea is that the optimal time frame seems to change per security. the QQQQ is has a much shorter optimal time frame for example...but if i use the same time frame for the Japan I shares...i lose my A$$...i have to go to a much longer time frame. I played with SPY, and simply couldnt...

here is a strange on for you. I am trying to come up with some new methods to trade ETFs. What i have figured out is that based on different volatility profiles, different ETFs trend in different ways......we knew this. my system is to use a triple moving averge crossover signal...

I am in the process of creating a new list of diversified ETFs that i can be familiar with that i can review every day. Right now the list is 16 different relatively liquid completely unrelated ETFs. I plan to be in no more than about 5 of these at a time. For those of you who are...

sell side....buy side are the funds and money managers. they guys selling to them are the sell side.

no way amigo. you have to track your progress to see where you can improve. money management and discipline are key to long term success. Ill make a $1000 bet (not that anyone could really take the other side of that) that the guys who track all of these items daily, analyze them and use...

simply count the number of weeks and multiply by 5....tedious, but maybe faster than trying to figure out how to do it automatically.

Hi norm. yes absolutely....but the common position whould be a sales trader. Golman sachs made a bloddy killing this year off of their trading profits. normally, if they make a market, they take the other side of their customers trade...hence creating a position for their proprietary account...

Every job i have ever gotten.........I have gotten cold calling. The fact of the matter is that people like other people with drive and who are easy to get along with. The other thing, is that poeple like to do favors for others. for most people, human nature is to help out. Offer to buy...

Oil, metals, GOOG (i remember thinking about a short at 120....glad i never did!).

we have all been where your were at one time or another (except for me, i was born knowing everything). i think the best way to start is to buy a few books. I think most will agree that 2 of the books that got most of us "hooked" and wanting to learn more are 1. MArket wizards-jack...