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I guess every private trader is an entrepreneur in his heart. JC you pointed out something that is very important to me. To know what I really want. I might have to give here some input that will not be liked by most of you: We live in the capitalistic world... we know that. All we do is...

Those in India are good. They are not single programmers... they function as a little company have a project manager and 20 programmers. The team I'm working with do a lot of things for Microsoft.. and they also build some banking software for Swiss-Banks. They are good in coding.. but they need...

contract programmers

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I use it for me... to backtest some stuff. I'm not a programmer so EasyLanguage is little easier for me to handle... than c++. I have a programmig company but we produce all different kinds of programs for any kind of applications.. not specially systems. We have teams in different parts of the...

I was the one that brought up the subject with the 50% to 50%. You did understand me little wrong. I meant if the profits are equal to the losses. I know that the best trend following systems have 35 to 45% probability for choosing winning trades. With the 50to50 I tried to explain something...

ask the omega-list: omega-list@eskimo.com alain

In my opinion this is beyond black box trading because the people that are trading with a black box system have nothing in the background. And as I can see you have a huge capacity that is responsible for what happens "in the box" :) May I ask what kind of returns you make? By the way are...

I once met a guy from Deutsche Bank on Wall Street that is senior trader for currencies and has about 20 traders under him. He told me that the traders that survive five to ten years in this trading room - they will after be successful in anything they do in life. If you have been successful...

so you have people in house that spend all their time developing these systems. how much time do they spend on a system and do they do wide back-testing? what do you actually trade currencies? we trade european futures and bunds alain

with background i mean do you know what you trade or are there some systemdevelopers always working on them? Or do you just trade like the indigo software works... choose a couple of systems and see what happens. What we do: we have several trading systems, each one with very different...

<b>marketsurfer</b> Systems can give you an edge like hmap says.. Let's take the example of the random entry method you have given. Let's say that for example you are exactly 50% of the time right and 50% of the time wrong. Then your profits are equal to your losses. Like a coin...

what is an example for a black box trading system you are talking about? With what kind of background are you trading them? What do you think is necessary to be able to trade those black box systems successfully? I'm just curious? Alain

<b>Morning traders:</b> from when to when do you trade? Do you have another job beside that one? <b>Afternoon traders:</b> from when to when do you trade? Do you have another job beside trading? What are peoples general experience with trading only half a day. Maybe you could add some...

specially calming after seeing your signature :D very calming

we don't use black box systems. we use self developed systems that we adjust yourself. to be able to combine systems for example you have to exactly know what you combine and why... you have to have a reason why you combine those systems. In black box trading this has nothing to do with real...

metooxx, we do the same thing with the diversification. very interesting to see that also others do that. alain

I think the thing with the IQ is a huge failing in the definition. The standard IQ-Tests only show parts of the numeric and the verbal intelligence. But people don't see that a human being doesn't exist out of those.. there are also other kinds of intelligence! - technical intelligence -...

two things: first I think that if you have a degree in something that doesn't mean that you are intelligent! That does only mean that you are either hard working or intelligent. And most college students are more on the hard working side... The reason why firms on wall street hire...

Trading Systems are a huge story... a never ending story if you want. There are all different kinds of trading systems that work. Now the question is: what does it mean that a trading system works? Does that mean that a system creates constant monthly profits month after month, year after...