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An interesting site keeping an eye on health fraud... www.quackwatch.org

I love this book :) It has certainly helped me to develop and implement better systems. Each to his own. :cool:

John Ehlers' mission in life is to tell people how crap FFT is. But obviously not everyone is listening. http://www.mesasoftware.com/#FFT%20Comparison

IMHO the most important thing you can do with any system is run it against multiple markets. We can't be certain of any outcome - all we can do is try and increase our odds of success. If you run against multiple markets then your odds are increased that a) you will make money, b) your...

For TS 7.2 they are... 1. 9 period, Close 2. Close, 20 period, 1.5 factor 3. Fast 12, Slow 26, MACD 9 4. 14, 3 HTH

Thanks flyingdutch. I look forward to your book :) I get the bit about speed. But I've never heard of 'modulation'. Wouldn't varying my data slightly (running a perl script on my ohlc data to vary it by a small random amount) have the same effect? Some products were recently...

Thanks for your reply 1contract. With TradeStation (and I assume other backtest software) I can vary my inputs. So, to test a moving average crossover system I can vary the first MA from, say, 2-5 and the second MA from 10-50. It then produces a set of results (2/10 cross, 2/11 cross, ...

Can someone please explain the differences between... 1. Normal backtesting (such as with TradeStation). 2. Neural networks 3. Genetic algorithms My (cynical) assumption is that using neural and genetic stuff is the same as backtesting - just faster and with more curve fitting! Is...

For a no-programming approach to backtesting this might be a solution. I have no experience of it - just saw the advert in S&C. Maybe someone who has used it could give some feedback. :)

I think he's ignoring us. :p

That's easy. You keep your mouth shut or say 'the market is difficult at the moment'. :) LOSE-LOSE. Totally agree. Don't try and manage money for anyone else - especially friends and family.

Don't do it!! There's nothing like money to lose you friends and alienate your family. What's it going to be like at your family Christmas/Thanksgiving/whatever dinner when you're in a 20% drawdown?

What's ER2?

If you bet $13 you win $8 (and you get your $13 stake back). Which is the same as "if you bet one dollar on bush, you win your dollar back plus 8/13 of a dollar (62 cents)"

The population in the north of Tenerife is about 50% German, 40% British and 10% Spanish. In the south I think there are 60-70% British, 25-35% northern Europeans and 5% Spanish. There are no Americans apart from the odd tourist. I certainly hope the dollar picks up cause it does make a...

http://www.csidata.com/uawebcharts/Correlation/Correlation1_F.htm

I'm on Tenerife. I moved here in August last year for a couple of years. I'm paying 900 euros per month (all bills included) for a farmhouse ioverlooking Puerto de la Cruz in the north.

I'm on Tenerife, near Puerto de la Cruz. About 90 euros per month.

I suppose it depends what you mean by 'decent execution'. I day trade the ES from the Canary Islands on a 512k ADSL line without a problem.

Trade an always in, EOD trend following strategy. Diversify across at least 5 markets. Use good money management (look at Ryan Jones' stuff). And in 10 years you'll be rich and be able to give up your day job and be a trader again.