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What about the whole middle eastern gene pool? peace axeman

Was watching CNN when I first heard of the last bomb attempt on saddam which may have killed him. Ran downstairs to see what ES was doing. It had started its climb 20 minutes ago! Sheeshhh... someone out there has some very fast news. peace axeman

Blatant discrimination against Satanists! Satanists should file applications to get rid of "Jesus St.", which exists in just about every US State. Actually... im all for separation of church and state. Lets get rid of 666 and Jesus St everywhere :D peace axeman:

Ater trying hundreds of coded systems, ive noticed that one of the best ways to spot curve fitting is by eyeballing the curve and playing with it. When you have a good feel for the system, you can "tweak" the parameters, and if the curve changes wildly with small tweaks, you KNOW you...

Yes... this is for my longer term trading. Somewhere to put my money while I trade shorter time frames, etc.. It's 100% mechanical and brain dead trading. peace axeman

What you see is the whole curve. It immediately went positive. axeman

Here is the equity curve for an ES system I developed this week. Its the simulated results of trading 3 simple (cough cough) systems in parallel in an attempt to make the curve a little smoother. Would you trade a system with an equity curve that looks like this? This is for a 4 year...

Nice Bruce Lee quote Fruity. Something similar... From a Michael Jordan poster I saw ------------------------------------------------ I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career I've lost almost 300 games 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot ........ and missed...

Ding ding ding , we have a winner. Finally someone states the obvious. The weight of entry and exit are directly related to your style of trading. Try telling a scalper the entry isnt as important as the exit :) Swing traders may say the exit is more important. Who cares...

Is it still 2 minutes, or 30 seconds, or what? peace axeman

Fruity said: "If edges are so hard to find, why can ANYONE lose money EASY?!" Answer: Psychology/Human nature. People are incapable of placing sums of money in a market which whips back and forth constantly. They panic as soon as it goes against them, and exit every trade before it...

On one side of the fence you have the tradestation types who will tell you that you must spend a zillion hours finding a mechanical system with a real edge. On the other side of the fence, you hear traders saying that trading is "simple", blah blah blah I think this is a big source of...

Building systems that are profitable with zero slippage and zero commission is TRIVIAL. What a joke. peace axeman

A phd in physics or stats will not make you successful. Plenty of hot shot traders around here without those. Creativity and a TON of hard work will get you there. Ive taken a ton of advanced math classes in college and can honestly say I havent used any of those skills in finding...

That only happens to people who lose 25% of their capital and dont quit. Then lose 50% and still dont quit. Then lose 75%, and still havent discovered they have no edge. Then lose 100% and wish they had more to lose. :D peace axeman

After you have spent 15 hours a day for a full year or two, come back and tell us your really out of ideas. If your already out of ideas this quick, your toast. You have to realize, your competing against entire TEAMS of programmers hired by wall street looking for a mechanical edge...

Selling it? Sheesshh.... they better be getting a nice price tag. Businesses with revenue streams like that are tough to come by :) peace axeman

Im dependent on the RealTicks APIs. I like to get my live data directly into custom systems. Anyone else offer this? RealTick is getting RealWorthless. peace axeman

Does eSignal have an API to programmatically grab live data and historical data like RealTick??? Im thinking about switching if it does. Any links? info on this? peace axeman

Just some thoughts on backtesting and candles. If you backtest candle sticks blind... aka.... count every single bearish engulfing candle you come across, then you will find no edge. The reason is, some bearish engulfing candles are actually good LONG signals. They are the first...