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Lack of funds? Not everybody starts out with a hefty trading account.

:confused: Seriously, how did you determine this? And what are the six main pairs? Thanks.

"It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races." -- Mark Twain :p

Here's my two cents ... For $10K, stick with stocks. For starters, unlike futures, options and forex, stocks are not strictly a zero-sum game. The market boom of the nineties was generated by stocks, not futures, options or forex. You can just hold on to stocks and still make money. Can't...

1-day forecast. Just add money management and a good trailing stop and it's good to go. :D

Stephen, top-posting is bad form. My EOD indicator says GOOG was a buy on Tuesday the 15th; confirmation uptick on Friday. What does your forecaster say (GOOG, EOD basis)? Also, (unanswered question) why do you say first differencing loses information? Thanks.

Can't do a google search? Anyway ... http://www.trendfollowing.com/whitepaper/Does_trendfollowing_work_on_stocks.pdf

:eek: Intriguing :D But is being able to forecast the smoothed change, as opposed to the actual change, of practical value? I'm not sure. Why do you say first differencing loses information? Unless a trader is doing the ol' support/resistance dance, price change matters more than...

Shouldn't be too hard to adapt an EOD system to EOW. Just a matter of tossing away ~80% of the data points. :cool:

Sure, there's lots of support for that idea. I don't know how successful it is, but I guess that depends primarily on how well you can distinguish trend from chop. There're other threads in this forum dealing with that very subject. Good trading.

I for one appreciate the effort you put into your posts here and elsewhere. I knew next to nothing about Larry Williams and it's always interesting (and educational) to hear details about how well-known traders gained their reps, good or bad. Thanks, TD. :)

Right-wing Christian extremists shoot doctors who perform abortions; blow up womens' health clinics and kill, among others, patients who are there for pre-natal care, not abortions; blow up government buildings with truck bombs; force young girls into polygamous marriages; burn crosses on the...

True, and the Catholic Church has the unconscionable position of making contraception as much a sin as abortion. This is because the power of the Church lies essentially in the number of its members, and anything that threatens that number cannot be allowed. This is the same greed-based...

It will if the trend continues. Trends don't automatically end just because you enter them. Some end, others don't. Trend followers are playing an odds game, just like casino owners. I have not seen those studies, and I don't look at price indexes to determine whether to buy or sell an...

Read Jack Schwager's Market Wizard books. Most of those success stories are about trend followers.

Buy low, sell high. What is that advice based on except trending? In order to go from low to high, or vice versa, price must trend. Your problem is confusing the principle "trade with the trend" with the practical application. Just like "be good" is easier said than done, so is "trade...

This is as it should be. Just as trend indicators cannot predict tops and bottoms, counter-trend indicators (aka overbought / oversold indicators) cannot handle trends adequately. Most successful TA traders are trend followers, not counter-trenders. So you might want to re-evaluate your...

Science has already determined this point. The question is not when life begins (pre-conception, by the way; more proof of the fetus worshippers' sloppy reasoning to claim it begins at conception) but when humanity begins. According to medical science, human life ends when brainwave activity...

Yes, she's a damn hypocrite. She helped enshrine Bush and his horde back in 2000 and now she wants to whine about the then-predictable outcome for the courts. May she and her ilk all go to hell.

Your attitude flies in the face of basic human nature. If a person never addresses his critics, most people assume the critics are telling the truth. Didn't Kerry prove this in 2004 when he ignored the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush? If your critics are telling the truth, maybe the best...