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yes, everything gapped up. but they also gapped up and KEPT GOING STRAIGHT UP. with stops he would not have blown out his account. he would have had a big loss, yes, but not blown out.

the day of the rate hike in Jan '01 a guy in our office was short three stocks, one of which was AOL - don't remember the other two... he went to the head for a dump, came back and his whole account was blown out. never saw him again. moral of the story... ALWAYS put in stops if u leave...

Tampa... GREAT to see you back. :D

From Jan 1970 to Jan 1982 if you buy the 1st up day AFTER 4 down then the results are significantly reversed. %Profitable=62.90 W/Lratio=0.97 ProfitFactor=1.64 Buying the 4th consecutive down close is buying the proverbial 'falling knife' in a ranging market. By waiting to buy the 1st...

I ran it in TS from 1970 to 1982 and the quickie results were %profitable=66.28 W/Lratio=0.42 ProfitFactor=0.83 ideas like these are why a lot of guys are getting whittled down or blown out recently... testing on bull and/or volatile market data and then running the system in dissimilar...

similar to inandlong i screen for % ATR with less than 60% being of interest on an actively traded stock. i also compare the % ATR relative to what the market did that day... if it's christmas eve or thanksgiving friday 90% of stocks r going to be narrow range days because the mkt probably had...