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Are you sure? Jack instructed to lower the EPS, not the RS, to lengthen the list. You have 98 stocks at RS of 80, I have 112 at an RS of 90. You've netted 49 that have a vol. of 200,000, I have 62. Which one of us has acceptable settings, though? You? Me? Both of us? Neither? Regardless of...

Jack: This may be a good point for me to illustrate why it is that your posts become, to some, flammable material. But more importantly, why it is that the same reason makes for l-o-n-g threads and confusion. The confusion occurs to bright minds, full of thoughts and reasonings, not to lazy...

Hoo boy... 'cryptic phrasing' is not a 'level' of writing, nor is a belief of understanding it necessarily an indication of any particular aptitude. It's communication, but not done at its best. Centuries later, numerous learned people still disagree over whatever Nostradamus was writing about...

If you make a direct correlation between what you call 'information density' as it pertains to Jack's posts, its problem being comprehended, and the abilities of a wide varied group of people and the historical record of a range of school systems, then I can't believe in nor have credence in...

Hang on a sec, I have a rather good vocabulary. I don't think vocabulary is the issue. One of the issues is the cryptic phrasing and incompleteness of thought in Jack's writing, not to be confused with matters vocabulary. By 'incompleteness of thought', I don't mean anything derogatory; I allude...

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This reminds me of one afternoon a few months ago when I had CNBC on in the background, and during their power lunch show they profiled a bunch of students in CA who were managing some student fund. They weren't Wharton MBAs, but they were being heralded by CNBC because their picks had...

By that you mean no one prefers to have a stop loss executed, I would imagine. Getting out after the trend has changed must involve a bit of profit loss somewhat, no? If so, why wouldn't a trailing stop be as effective as falling price or an indicator telling you to get out? The trade should...

OK, these guys, in their statements, certainly own up about using stops or getting out when the trade's not working out. Can anyone correlate their techniques to rule#1? In understandable English? "Do we sometimes get stopped out of a position only to see the market reverse... Of course, but...

Hmmm. Fascinating.

That installing stop-losses into a system will deteriorate results compared to previously backtested results is common. The fundamental idea of the stop loss is to prevent a formidable price shock from exacting a load of capital out of your equity. The balance is in finding this stop that...

What about Klingon traders? "This position is losing. It must die!" "You dare question the worthiness of my strategy? I should kill you where you stand!" "Stops are for the weak and timid! "

I also don't get the idea. Maybe you're not communicating the idea sufficiently because you can't or won't, but the closest this sounds like to me is Marty Schwartz's idea of 'buy long when the price is over the EMA(10) and exit when it's under the EMA(10)'. Otherwise, realize that using very...

Then I would suggest 1. that anecdotal observations cannot be held as proof because that's like saying everyone I saw today was wearing blue pants, therefore everyone in other places was wearing blue pants, and 2. Surveys are typically meaningless because the sampling is inherently limited and...

The real trick to using the VIX as a market timing indicator, I think, is to not look at absolute numbers or levels, but rather, their relationship to previous levels.

This assumption of a under representation of female traders. What is it based on? Maybe there's an under representation of women in just about all industries, because a good amount of them become fulltime mothers or housewives, as opposed to men, and so we don't see them in the office.

estrader, here's an interesting quote: "A consistently bad performer can become a consistent winner by doing just the opposite... steady losses means that the price movement consistently stays within a trading range, and every buy and sell signal actually represents an overbought and oversold...

Sorry, just thought it was worthy of a mention and originally I was trying to get other's feedback then. You'll note tha date of my first posting. I know what happened today. Sometime ago I noticed it's complacency and posted about it. And now, look at the chart: a 50% increase in one day. What...

OK. From 10.90 to over 15.00 and no one has anything to say?

Well thanks all for your illuminating replies. See ISPH's action today?