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promoted to chit-chat :D

Like there can't be a "Theory" on trading, there is NO "Theory" on backtesting. You got to find something by yourself. Only charlatans have theories, often without backtesting: look around at ET - if you can't spot them, you're in big trouble.

BTW, did Jack ever have a fund? :D

Very sound. Let those few lucky ones enjoy their windfalls. Look at Europe where the principle of punitive damages is unknown. Much higher corruption everywhere. These corrupt criminals - and judges - simply laugh at their token kiddie fines. The US has jury trials because its people don't...

Does smoking pot enhance your trading performance? No. But it will put you on the road to lung cancer a bit faster.

This is indeed what passes under the popular name "backtesting" I often have expressed the opinion that strategy design and testing are growing together. Somebody mastering a profitable strategy would be a fool (1) to "share" his strategy; (2) to "share" his testing methodology. It is...

You must be kidding. There is NOTHING like pure pit noise.

Gann, I have a hard time to follow you here: "Then get into Python -> Java/C# -> C++". What is your logic behind this? Indeed, I would say it's better for you to stick to Wealth-Lab, Tradestation or Metastock.

oddi, What the heck are you doing on this thread. I just asked ya that question but ya clammed up. I've never seen anything being "shared" by you. Talking about: "posters that are positive in their attempt to promote a good learning environment", all I read coming from you are some Dutch...

I don't share working methods. What gets shared is worthless crap. Get yar Jack off his butt and start proving himself. Further, we NEVER even saw the smallest backtest from yar master. He recently admitted this himself, none for any of his four methods. Like always, others are said to be...

As long as we keep getting flooded by Jack and his butlers, what does it matter?

Part of my "growing" into my new Python direction was (1) IDE; (2) GUI. In fact, Python by itself is only the language. No IDE, only an interactive shell. Python also packs a GUI lib-tk with its distro which didn't really suit my purpose. While thinking about what to do better and what to...

It is wise for most of our obviously rather low-level thread visitors that you hedge by mentioning "Not master it". It depends on what your aims are. Going by your standards I could say that I produced workable reliable Python "kiddie" code after only one day. But, I wouldn't say I was ready to...

Very nice. How do you tell (in time) when a market switches into sideways-mode and switches out of it. If you can teach us that, we'll take care of the rest by ourselves. :)

Many do. That's where faith or belief comes in. Philosophers refer to this form of knowledge as "Metaphysics", i.e. what lies beyond physics, i.e. not accessible to scientific inquiry. No serious scientist wastes his time by dabbling into your "holy books" expressing eternal truths, written...

Let me still add to the above that "factory pressed" CD's and DVD's are doing much better stability-wise than the home-written discs, this due a much more delicate bit formatiom process in the disc layer. In fact the time of storage BEFORE writing likely will also play a role in degradation.

Oh boy, Do I feel humble before all those mighty monitor mounts & stands.

OK, Except for the fact that you will have to work (much) harder to pay back your debt-holders with (much) depreciated dollars. Unless of course you keep inventing gimmicks to keep on piling up debt for another 50+ years. One day the devil will get you though. In the olden days, before...

So what? Ever count Jack's, ....(wacko's) and Grob's posts together? As ya seem to have some pretentions in French: "Je n'ai jamais tourne comme une girouette a la cnms2". (accents excepted) Keep on wacking around cnms2. Don't forget to apply yar ole MM if ya ever would try some of wacko's...

I did a full SciPy installation some (6?) months ago, if I recall at the time the new version came out and I definitely had to install Fortran runtime for that - quite some routines were dependent on it. In truth, I did not check any further before writing the above recent post and must have...