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Good post. The answer for the OP is that he must know the expectancy of his trading system per contract traded, assuming on a daily basis. He can then divide 15K by that to estimate the number of contracts needed to achieve that objective. Leverage does not matter as long as his capital is...

Can you give an example of an "algorithmic futures platform"? Do you mean something like moving averages and trend following or something like a high frequency scalping algorithm? It's like going to a car forum and telling people you want to buy a good car.

Good thread. I agree that buying real estate in good places is the best bet.

Socialists are losers but they never learn...

I should also divulge that I have absolutely no experience flying a plane but I have been able to fly around the world using the flight manual and I will land it when I figure out how...hopefully it won't run out of fuel before that...

GOOG is probably the biggest bubble in the history of mankind.

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I agree with you intra...

More or less, you are correct. What are you proposing they do, by the way, in the present crisis?

The latest book by Michael Harris (www.tradingpatterns.com) which is included in the list Derrick gave, comes with a CD that has a pdf file with the code of price patterns for names like QQQQ and SPY in native language for Tradestation, Metastock, Wealth-Lab 4 and even TeleChart.

He states: "But in liquidity trap conditions, the interest rate isn’t affected at the margin by either the supply or the demand for money – it’s hard up against the zero bound. And as a result the usual explanation for the downward slope of the AD curve doesn’t work." I think he is...

Be serious now. Someone asks a question about another program and you come along with a black box trading recommendation. Don't you understand that these two program, APS and VectorBull cannot even be compared? The former is a white-box and the latter is a black-box with signals probably...

Profit factor is good enough. Positive expectancy is the same as Profit factor > 1. You can prove this mathematically. I also think Van Tharp has admitted he does not trade. Is that true? John

I don't know whether an edge is possible via these programs but I tried the Stratasearch demo with the pattern add-on. After 3 days the program was still running and I had to temrinate it because it seemed stuck in an endless loop. Using the same data file and parameters it took APS less...

I agree with your estimate. APS from tradingpatterns.com costs less than 1.5k and it is a "white box" although it limited to OHLC price patterns. John

Well.... it is specifically stated on the website that the startegy search is based on a two-level optimization scheme. So, given there is optimization of parameters involved already I do not understand how can one avoid curve-fitting. Regardless, do they generate code for the strategies...

Buy a new car or tradingsystem lab? Good question. John

Any charting software with programming features, like Tradestation, Metastock or Amibroker or any stock scanning software operating real-time. like TeleChart for example, can do that easily. John

You mean US courts because they can be sued in Europe or other places where owners are considered accountable for their content. I also think the law will change in the US soon. John

I found the article about the performance of the QQQQ patterns APS came up with in 2002 very interesting and I wonder whether someone who is an expert in applying statistical analysis can figure out a way of determing in advance the likelihood that a specific pattern stays profitable in the...