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"I can predict the top and bottom" Shakespeare mentioned people like you.

Buying used gear is just as perilous in the internet age, as it was in the pre-internet age. You could google "used audio equipment" and find Play It Again Sam (a store in Ohio), Q Audio (next door to MIT), plus four or five websites. Plus Ebay, Craigslist, et al. But it's still used gear and...

I think it would be a lot more honest if you were to tell your clients that you have absolutely no idea what they can do next, and you can't help them, and there is no fee. Wheedling free suggestions from total strangers -- in your first and only posting to a chat site -- and then...

Here's an example output, taken from a 2007 ET posting here, from a commercial backtesting software package that sells for $3000. Not cheap but not the price of a Toyota Prius either. Although this particular test was run using a single trading system (one of my own proprietary frobs), on a...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1526684&highlight=milk#post1526684

I'm finding the books that explain metals trading on the London Metal Exchange, to be very useful. Although LME is positioning itself as the center of the non-Ferrous metals universe, they are quietly adding steel and bretheren to their trading mix, too. Bookstore is here...

There are some "unconventional" (or equivalently, "seldom used") positionsizing methods that are nevertheless well known.Ryan Jones's "Fixed Ratio" which seeks to equalize ($profit / total#lots traded since the beginning of time) LINK Trade Goodness positionsize modification. This supposes...

There are 63 search hits; visit the first one or two and do a bit of internet shopping. Your little Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer will love it! Note: best if given to other people's children, who live in a different town.

I guess if IB doesn't make Kansas City Wheat available to their customers, then Johannesburg Wheat (at the South African Futures Exchange) is right out. A pity.

Yes, swine flu is bring the market down TODAY. The market for swine (i.e. hog futures) that is. But the hogs market had been falling for several months before this flu outbreak was publicized. Do you suppose "the smart money" got tipped off back in August 2008, that a Big News Event With...

LH is limit down. Congratulations to shorts.

It's called DipBuying. Your specific example is "DipBuying with Profit Target Exit and No Allowance For Commissions or Slippage". Try it out on past history. Put it in a spreadsheet, insert historical prices, and run. Plot the Net Asset Value of your account versus time. Don't forget that...

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Managed futures also did quite well.

Congratulations on your decision to depart. George Carlin suggested much the same thing: "If you don't like the weather, move!" Here's hoping you never regret it.

If you like it, if you've tested it, if you've compared it to all of the Standard Exit Strategies favored by the Orthodox Conventional Wisdom, and discovered that you like it best of all, if you have great confidence in your testing approach, then why not indeed? You don't have to please...

If you've decided you simply cannot tolerate the testing software available on the market; if you've decided to design your own software, your way, then ignore what others have done. Do it your way. When you're all done, if you discover you want to change something, then change it. You've...

You could ask the question "If I had used system development method X back on 12/31/2007, how happy would that suite of systems have made me in 2008 and 2009?" The simple way to answer the question is to actually run your system development method X but only for historical price data up...

Since free and unprofessional advice appears unavailable (setting aside any concerns about its veracity), perhaps your next step might be to seek professional advice and pay for it. They will be familiar with the law (which you can read here) and can advise you about those delightful things...

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