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I would add to the above: (5) the constant influx of unskilled and recreational traders (6) Well-informed versus poorly or uninformed traders (not related to inside information) Try this one, I found it very interesting: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~lharris/ABSTRACT/Zerosum.htm Ron

Were you paper trading for six years or actually trading the system with real $$$? Ron

Any good Tradestation add-ons for candlestick and chart pattern recognition? I'm looking for a product in the form of a function I can query from within an easylanguage strategy. EOD execution is good enough for me at this point. Ron

But we do not know when insiders will sell, only after they do it. We do not know when and how geopolitical developments will affact the markets. Speaking technically, the developments may reduce assymetric information but systemic and non-systemic risk will still be there. The video was...

Over the longer term the performance of such strategies reverts to mean zero returns, minus commissions and opportunity cost, best case scenario. The main reasons are that you do not know who the players are and which way the arbitrageurs will move if they do, you do not know the inventory of...

No. It means that 68.3% of closed position P/Ls will fall somewhere between -2.5 points and 9.3 points, 95.4% of them between -8.4 points and 15.2 points and 99.7% of them between -14.3 points and 21.1 points. The higher the standard deviation the higher the strategy risk. In absolute terms...

How many trades were generated until the equity curve started going south? Ron

Is the above statement necessarily true? Could someone explain why making a market efficient by exploiting inefficiencies is labeled by the authorities an illegal practice? Ron

Could you elaborate a bit as to why limit orders have an adverse effect on mechanical trading system performance? Also, what do you mean by "multiple entries" anyway? Ron

After I terminate XP home I get the message: "End program - OnScreenDisplay..." Each time I terminate this program manually in order to get the computer to turn off. By the way, this process is not in the running tasks list. Thanks Ron

Does this happen too often? I'm in the process of opening an account with them and this got me really worried. What other alternatives are there to match TS power and flexibility? By the way, what do you think about their FX trading service? Ron

Has anyone tried this broker's futures ad forex services? Although they usually get good ratings in a few websites their FX platform is very simple, no charting capability or news and their web based system for futures trading doesn't appear state-of-the-art. Ron