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Is Excel already calculating your trade signals? I have used Excel for automation quite a bit, but much of that depended on the complexity of the system. For me, if the system was based on simple information like the bid or ask I have used Excel...in cases where I used more complex...

Just got a notice from Hypertrader that their automation interface is now available. It will link charting or system software like TradeStation, Metastock and Esignal to brokers like IB so you can automate your systems. Its a beta and I haven't tried it out yet, but it looks promising. And...

A word of caution here. One thing to realize is that virtually every single trade that is profitable by taking a crossover would have been even more profitable by jumping in early on anticipation of a cross. What that doesn't tell you however is how many times there was no eventual crossover...

There are plenty of serious people here, but to have a discussion on a topic only you are familiar with it would be helpful to have some explaination of how you use it. Several people asked for more info, and just saying "do a search" won't get anyone talking. Although I give you credit for...

Yeah, stops are another thing that would be a huge risk. They guarantee they will fill you at the stop price, but since they set the current price, if enough stops are at a certain level and the market gets anywhere near that level, they can take their own price far enough to hit them, giving...

Its stuff like this that keeps fx trading from gaining any real legitimacy. How can both the trader and the counter party (in this case, the broker) have an edge at the same time in a zero sum game? They can't, so just like a casino banning card counters, an fx broker has an incentive to...

Can you say OSIP?

Its much harder to be right without analysts and t.v. commentators in your back pocket. Anyone with a brain could have done what he did with that kind of information. He is nothing special, just a type A personality that made the best of it. But I give him credit for putting himself in that...

Maybe he just wants it so he can have a hot trading assistant...:)

A) I will not dump a controversial topic on another moderator just to get it out of my hair. You are like the forum mother...how about becoming a moderator and fix it the way you want. If Magna wants the thread, I will transfer it there. But since TB is trading index futures I do not have a...

Look, I am on your side...If you stop acting like a 3rd grader we can all give it a rest. Thanks.

Wow, you guys make the FBI look like a convent of nuns. Honestly his wife's career is not relevant to his ability to teach profitable trading. Can we please keep the discussion to his results, thanks.

Ok, geez, finally think I got to most of the crap on this thread (I can't edit fast enough). Look, I am not a fan of TB, and I think the criticisms of his calls are completely legitimate and valuable to new traders in particular. He has been given permission to post his calls, so I am...

Tri, I would normally agree with you here, but Samson said he did not receive all of the course material (per Brad's admission that he did not get everything) and was booted from the chat room prematurely. That means he did not deliver product for the money. That is what I have a problem with...

Don Bright has offered to back a system if you can prove its good, maybe give him a call... http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=464533#post464533

LOL, so true... I had an econ professor that always like to say that God created economists to make weathermen look good.

By edge I didn't mean in the statistical probabilty sense necessarily...certainly a rule loophole is a legitimate edge until others figure it out. Take the overnight/overseas mutual fund loophole that Gary Smith talked about in his book "Trading For a Living". Basically that strategy took...

Then what you describe is an "edge" rather than the notorious HG. In that case, scrape together from friends, family and trusted associates enough to hit the sweet spot (enough capital to take advantage but not enough to remove the edge) and milk it for as long as possible. It is only a matter...

The funny thing is that if someone ever really found the Holy Grail, then they would actually be sentencing themselves to a life of hardship along with the rest of the world. Taken to its logical conclusion, if you never lost, or almost never lost, then eventually you would control the entire...

Yeah, I think they have broadband in prison there...