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If you think the Weimar tried to inflate out of WWI reparations, think again. The reparations were denominated in goldmarks. The papermarks were what inflated.

If you average the 10 items excluding alcohol (which only a few people need to survive), the average year over year is about 6%. Considering Americans only spend about 8% or so on food, this comes out to about a 0.5% hit on spending power for the average American over a year. Most Americans...

Isn't that what I said? Letting some banks and the automakers fail would have only had a temporary impact on the economy. The money would have been better spent elsewhere.

How do you plan to close the $1.535T of the deficit not related to Soc sec? You didn't address this issue. And don't suggest raiding social security for trillions more.

You have some nerve criticizing the Social Security program. Social Security has run a nearly $3 Trillion SURPLUS while the rest of gov't has run a ~$11Trillion+ DEFICIT. Out of the almost $1.6T deficit we currently have, Social security is only responsible for ~$65Billion. You had better...

The purpose of a recession or even a "Great Depression" is to clean out the weak parts of the economy so the stronger parts can take over. This process has to take place. The only thing the gov't and Fed can do is delay this by throwing good money after bad. Eventually, the weak parts of the...

Any of these have an automated trading platform?

Ok. Your system holds over night while mine only holds intraday for an average trade time of less than 35 minutes. Although it's not an apples to apples comparison, it's interesting to see how different systems do under non-optimum circumstances.

How did this long-only system do the last three days? Asking cause I'd like to compare it to my long and short system, which I've been running live almost 6 months now.

How did the strategy do yesterday and today?

Perhaps TS needs more time to load any history lookback data for your charts. If they are tick charts, this can take some time.

I use radarscreen almost everyday. What I found was it takes about one to a few seconds per symbol for the far right of the indicator window to turn blue for each symbol after launching radarscreen. When the right side of all the boxes is blue, it is ready to go. So, I try to start up...

Many don't realize the extent to which the "International Community" has taken advantage of America. Before Bretton Woods, USA had ~20,000tons of gold after WW2. BW, which allowed our "allies" to exchange dollars which were not backed by gold for gold priced at ~$36 per ounce, resulted in the...

Obama is not responsible for the current situation. The last budget signed into law before Obama became President resulted in a $1.9T deficit. Obama's programs may have added a little to this number, but the budget had already been signed into law. The real problem is that the U.S. is...

Ok thanks. I didn't recognize it as the actual trades. Good job with this.

I'm referring to the Tradestation equity curve you posted. That only works for a single symbol unless you buy an add on, right?

So, how did you backtest on a portfolio? Did you purchase an add-on?

This is a stray comment, not a reply to any post in this topic. Egypt has over 1000 Abrams tanks and over 200 F-16 fighters. Militarily, they are not a joke.

Simple math shows the deficit not only has to be kept, but it has to increase to grow the economy. If federal gov't spending is ~3.5T out of a ~14T economy, and the ~10.5T not related to federal gov't is steady or decreasing, then fed gov't spending has to increase for the economy to grow...

It depends on if the net worth is mark to market or mark to estimated value. Once assets go on sale, they tend to lose mark to market value rather quickly.