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    Why do I see "Trends" in Randomly Generated Data?

    My two cents, 95% of technical analysis is crap, and for that matter fundamentals don't mean too much either (especially over shorter time frames). The stock market and price action is merely a representation of sentiment: that is, the perception of value attributed to an instrument based...
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    Lets discuss techniques for smoothing MAs

    For metastock: Almost Zero Lag Moving Average Period:= Input("What Period",1,250,10); EMA1:= Mov(P,Period,E); EMA2:= Mov(EMA1,Period,E); Difference:= EMA1 - EMA2; ZeroLagEMA:= EMA1 + Difference; ZeroLagEMA pneuma
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    Using a trend filter

    I have a trend filter in every system i have - trend following and swing. pneuma
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    Former skeptic, 200k savings, taking active trading seriously

    So many don't get this bit, but it is the most important. pneuma
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    The one thing I never understood...

    You have miss read, 9 systems over 3 strategies and there aren't that many styles of strategies as you have just mentioned. Thus systems within a style are semi-correlated - ie vary in time frame and general approach (but long trend following is still long trend following), and strategies are...
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    The one thing I never understood...

    This is what I do. I trade 9 systems concurrently, of three distinct types that are stastically non correlated. This provides a consistent risk adjusted return and lower drawdown. Since the systems are non correlated, all can be traded from the same float as each utilises captial at different...
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    US is the new Japan?

    Pot calling the kettle black? pneuma
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    "If I could just get that BIG win..."...like pushing boat away from dock...would=BIG$

    You should read this, before you bite off more than you can chew. Scuffy the Tugboat pneuma
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    Communism wins after all.

    In the current environment, how is that different to "capitalism" in the US? :D :D :D
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    I'll admit I contemplated suicide, tough rig, tough gig

    Hate to say this mate, but if trading means that much to you then QUIT. The market doesn't care if you lose everything. Other traders don't care if you lose everything. If trading is everything to you, and you do top yourself, nobody will give a shit. The market is the great equaliser - it...
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    How to maintain same mindset everyday?

    Stop caring about your performance, and start caring about doing your job properly.
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    Explain to this Aussie

    Thanks for the reasonable reply. Sorry that you have had to put up with Bush. Our's are, what's your point? Why do you put up with extortion from your institutions? We have regulators that promote competition over here, if the bank want your business then they will give reasonable rates...
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    Explain to this Aussie

    You probably know that the Reserve Bank in Australia just cut interest rates by 1% to 6%. The result of this is most mortgage holders will have their interest rates cut by about 1% to around 7.5-8%. Essentially the difference between the Reserve cash rate and the mortgage rate is the bank's...
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    Cannabis - A Wonder Drug?

    I heard that hemp was taking on cotton as a major fibre, they demonised the THC and social use and made hemp illegal to protect the cotton industry. pneuma
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    Who's fault is subprime.............

    Don't get me wrong trader, i agree that everyone is responsible for their own actions, however: The arsonist would blame his poor upbringing, parents and mental health for getting off burning things. Personal responsibility was absolved when religion was invented - now anyone can fk up, say...
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    If you don't like the Bailout, then do something

    At the risk of being slaughtered by you lot (I'm an Aussie so I have a pretty tough skin), let me ask this question: If you chaps hadn't kept fking it up (87, dot com and now the credit crunch), you wouldn't need to be constantly bailed out. Can Americans really handle a laissez fair...
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    Cheap Products vs. High Wages... Americans Want BOTH!

    what you say is true, however i doubt that they will realize why buy a $20 when you can get a 7 $3 ones. I have the same argument with my misses - i buy $100 demin jeans coz they will go the distance, she buys 5 $20 pairs because she can change with the fashion ... what is destroying...
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    Cheap Products vs. High Wages... Americans Want BOTH!

    too many think wealth is a good income, nice car, lush house and good school (and plenty of debt). keeping up with the jones' is what is destroying the western world. the younger you are the more you will think that you can have the assets of your parents without the 40 years of hard work...
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    I quit my job and skipped education to pursue Forex fulltime!:) What now?

    Buy what ever you want, it's all crap anyway. They key to success is uniqueness - if everyone did what you did then it wouldn't work effectively. So try everything you read about and keep the good stuff and toss the rest, from that develop your own approach. pneuma
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    I quit my job and skipped education to pursue Forex fulltime!:) What now?

    Go to school and learn to write code; C++ or something like that. Probably 6-12 months. In your spare time code a mechanical system to trade highly liquid pairs, and include date and times for economic releases. Base your system on what you have learned in books DVD's and your...
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