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How do you know if your volume chart is 80% accurate, 50% accurate, 95% accurate or what? And how, if your system depends on accurate data, can the system work with anything less than 100% accurate data? Surely the system doesn't adjust itself based on the accuracy of the data.

Steve - How could you have slippage on limit orders? That doesn't make any sense.

Have you found the perfect data feed? One that give you EVERY SINGLE trade so that your "volume" bars are a perfect reflection of EXACTLY what was traded? If not, now what?

Settlement.

Not bad at all - most people don't see that. Good stuff, keep it up. :)

The closing price and the actual settlement price are usually a few points different (by "fair value") because of the end-of-month settlement procedures - see this link for more info: http://www.cme.com/prd/eq/fairvaluefaq2544.html This happens at the end of every month. You've never...

EOM Settlement.

Pretty hard to believe (or even understand why) you didn't know that TASR was splitting. It was all over the business news for the past week or more. I even knew it was splitting and I didn't have any positions in the stock at all.

Chartingmarkets - Why did you choose to draw your uptrend line from those two points instead of the many other sets of later points?

Not to mention the fact that if $9.99 is less than a round trip commish, someone needs to change brokers. :D

Hmm. Whats the problem lately?

Did you make 100% already or are you posting sooner than you said you would?

Gekko what happened? Cash register sound mess up your trading?

Eagerly awaiting the 1/29 - 1/30 update!

Yes.

Oh, I didn't mean continue the journal as in continue posting the method and it's results - I meant just don't close this thread because it is ripe for discussion of "systems" and "methods" in general - and the (IMO) farce of backtesting, etc., and how something that "worked" in the past usually...

Electric - Why close this journal? I think this journal can provide a lot of insight to people trying to trade mechanical systems in that it shows how easy it is to be convinced that something "works" when it really doesn't. Please don't take this as a slam against you - it's not. But...

No update for today's entry and yesterday result?

COULD turn. Sure, anyone COULD do it. But have they?

If they REALLY want to identify "trading talent" why don't they simply ask people to submit their past years trading statements for review? Wouldn't that be a much better indicator of trading talent? Of course it would.