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  1. MarkBrown

    Why do traders fail: some random thoughts

    my cray never fails - even when its off which is most of the time - the research is making money. traders fail because they are human. if human pilots never had auto pilot then you would be asking why do pilots fail. of course you have to have confidence in your method or autopilot which...
  2. MarkBrown

    I got a hedge fund job

    this is how i started out but i did get to trade a small account from day one. i didn't touch the money or make a trade for 6 months after i was there and then i started slow. they loved it when i lost cause they could help me. when i won they didn't teach me anything, btw i thought i was...
  3. MarkBrown

    I Have Been Trading Since Before The Internet-1990

    i traded overnight full size sp's with no money im my account in the 80's and even into the 90's. if i was loosing i just had to take money down there to my broker the next day if i was up i put on another contract. i also remember my dad trading sugar in the early 70's and his broker wore a...
  4. MarkBrown

    New proprietary Trader Diet NOW Revealed

    i fixed the malox a few years ago and had one these done to me. http://www.columbiasurgery.org/divisions/surgical/gerd.html so i can eat anything i want in small amounts and never have any problems with acid etc. also what is nutrition? i eat steaks and lots of fish chicken.
  5. MarkBrown

    New proprietary Trader Diet NOW Revealed

    thanks! but the diet is working, i think my problem in the past was the ice, i intake no water at all. mb
  6. MarkBrown

    New proprietary Trader Diet NOW Revealed

    well i was but now i have really started loosing weight... 7:00am drink a glass of cold brewed lipton tea sweetened with ice. 9:30am drink a dr. pepper in a paper cup from the water dispenser no ice, and eat 2 cookies and 2 very small snicker squares. 12:00pm go eat anything i want...
  7. MarkBrown

    Simple Intraday Trading System

    i'm with you what is it long or short cant be both doesn't seem like a well detailed trading plan. i guess you could test every which way and figure it out. mb
  8. MarkBrown

    Simple Intraday Trading System

    backtesting - i used ts to do a big backtest and a forward walk on it with unsampled data. i guess i should have mentioned this prior but thought it was a given since i gave an opinion on it. but to clarify for some - the system has a good profit factor but not winning percentage. the pf was...
  9. MarkBrown

    Simple Intraday Trading System

    btw on a scale of one to ten - i would rate your idea as a "core" meaning conceptually you are getting there a solid "seven" which means you could make a living at trading. i would suggest you study gaming theory as a mix to an already solid base. also note anything equal to or greater...
  10. MarkBrown

    Simple Intraday Trading System

    {Not a bad system for a human mind to have conceived} The reversal seems to cause to many failed trades. The reason for this is that you are buying and selling on a show of strength in a direction. That strength is what makes the trigger buy and sell. So it is not to confident that you can...
  11. MarkBrown

    Casting Call for Fim Documentary

    toby has over 4 billion now! and growing some of his programs are 11 million minimum to participate. i am soon financing my son who is a cta to replicate what toby is doing just pay homage to him. i often wish i had taken a more conservative approach to trading myself, but i would have not...
  12. MarkBrown

    Futures or Stocks?! The truth

    maybe the same reason i am here when people ask. "why am i here"
  13. MarkBrown

    Daytrading. The illusion of a TREND

    my point is ask yourself why are you looking for a trend? the trend is the home run - chop trading is tapping out singles. anyone know anything about baseball? mb
  14. MarkBrown

    Daytrading. The illusion of a TREND

    but here is my point - if anyone will take the free their mind and accept that the human eye only focuses on the moves which apparently make money - the so called trend. you will see that there is far more data that chops than trends - this is what my eyes see. so why bother with a rear...
  15. MarkBrown

    Daytrading. The illusion of a TREND

    actually that chart proves my point, unless you really trade monthly and which case your an investor not a trader. if you look at that same length of data on even a daily chart you will see there is far more chop than not. mb
  16. MarkBrown

    85% of traders dont understand trading.

    oh they will be here shortly you can bet, they can smell realism a mile away.
  17. MarkBrown

    Down The SCT Rabbit Hole

    i have no problems with you or your contributions, the point was that in playback mode the bars form differently. this is not your fault it is the data vendor and software vendor. so, even if jacks stuff worked on one chart perfectly that same data was formed in error. the method that jack...
  18. MarkBrown

    Day Trading using EVDO Card

    i have the sprint card as a 3rd backup plugged into a wireless router called junxion box and it has served me well for about one year now. its pretty good better than nothing. http://www.junxion.com/product/ my card is the merlin s720. mb
  19. MarkBrown

    Daytrading. The illusion of a TREND

    there are no trends - there are only non-trends.
  20. MarkBrown

    Down The SCT Rabbit Hole

    Playback of Friday. ES price and volume alongside Spyder's chart for comparison. http://www.screencast.com/t/wnePPakuUci Total time 4 min. ============================ the above was taken from spydertraders journal thingy.. first i admit that i think this sct stuff is crap but...
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