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I've also gone through those links and some of them are called "forums" but are not real forums while others are not about trading (at least not entirely). The biggest automated trading forum that I know of is still this section of the Elite Trader forum, and it only has a few hundred active...

Great news.

Well, the poll at the start of this thread says that for 5 people it took over 10 years to do it, and I am proud to be one of them, because when I was in school I was always failing math classes. (It took me 8 years to graduate from college because I couldn't pass the two math courses required)...

It sounds scary. Are we in danger of not being able to make any money any more if automated systems spread any more? And if yes, what should we do about it? Stop explaining things on forums maybe?

Speaking of zero sum game, by these polls it seems that the situation is encouraging for automated traders, as there are very few of them. Very few on this forum - just 100 voters on the previous poll... how many automated traders could there be in the world in your opinion? 10 thousands? I am...

Thanks for letting me know that I am on the right track because in fact I speak a lot but I still don't have a whole year of full automated trading behind me - even though I can tell you that my automated trading systems made money for 3 consistent months before (after which I added some...

"Fundamental flaw" that allowed 30 automated traders voting on this poll to build up a capital of over 1 million dollars: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=157392 Or are they all lying in an anonymous poll? Unlikely. Were they just given all that money to invest it...

I was looking at my little poll as I often do. We don't have many votes (only 27 as I write). Eventually I would expect about 100 votes, like on this other poll: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=157392 Even though the votes are not that many, we can observe some...

Yeah, I was wrong about the problem, and I was wrong about how DDE links work as well. Thanks for the info.

I hope I understood correctly, and that I won't make you waste your time. I am a beginner as a vba programmer, but I came across similar problems before. On that workbook you should have a "Tickers" sheet, to request quotes which, once requested via the button "request market data", keep on...

Thanks to chaostheory (and to WalterEdward, too) for his detailed explanation of the advantages of "scaling into/out of positions" and his many answers to my endless questions and doubts. Congratulations for your patience. He does however mention some things, here and there (psychological...

I agree with everything intradaybill wrote. In detail, this is what I think: 1. Agree 2. Agree 3. Can't do it yet, because I have too little capital 4. Can't do it yet, because I have too little capital 5. Agree 6. Agree 7. Agree, but I don't want to risk over-optimizing by...

There's one lucky guy at the top of the poll, who voted "0 to <= 1 year". It took him less than a year to do everything, ever since he has set his eyes on trading. Very interesting. He was probably a programmer to begin with. He then either came across the right person, someone who advised...

Yes, it is extremely interesting for me to read you as well. That is why I started the thread. On the one hand I feel reluctant to speak about my trading and my systems (and I suppose others do, too), because all other traders are in a sense my opponents (zero sum game and similar...

RainMann, I read with interest and understood everything you said. Thanks for your contribution and congratulations for the speedy automation. On this poll, I voted "> 10 years".

I am sorry to write so many replies, but I want to state that this is exactly what I am trying to do, and I agree 100% with the logic behind what you wrote. Thanks for your clarity and conciseness. Very good point also in stressing out "don't pull the plug on the system during the inevitable...

I get your point, but that is exactly what I think, so maybe I am sorely mistaken, but by what I read on this forum there are many others - much more knowledgeable than me - who have my same belief. Read Businessman's post below yours for example. Otherwise we all would not be talking about...

6) 2005: automated systems. I realized that trading systems implemented by a human are not good enough, especially for me, and that I needed an automated system, and started working on it, even though I lost focus of the backtesting in the process, and implemented an automated system that I...

Premise: if you are tired of my questions or don't have time, feel free to ignore what follows. No, I wasn't talking about Martingale, nor were the two I mentioned. "The above refers to simple scaling into or out of a position.": that is exactly what Livermore and Balsara talk about, and...

I read about this pyramiding concept before. I remember reading Jesse Livermore about it, and a chapter in Nazer J. Balsara's "Money Management Strategies For Futures Traders". I can't fully grasp it - I can't grasp very much in this field, as I am quite ignorant on formulas and math in...