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This is something that can provide grounds for abuse and libel. Sounds like a huge liability to me. More work for lawyers. I don't think combining searching and forums is a revolutionary idea. It cannot be patented also because it does not sound as something not obvious to somone skilled in...

How long have you traded with the algorithm? What markets? What is you success rate, avg. win, avg. loss and profit factor? Is this an intraday, swing or trend following system? John

I don't understand why free markets soar when anti_free_market moves by governments are put in effect. Each time government places a trouble business under its control, this means more taxes, less competition and a signal to others not to worry because gov will come to their rescue. Is...

Nobody knows what GDP stands for now a days. John

I agree that slight demand destruction is not enough. Just a pause in a longer term uptrend. I see no crash in the near future. The equilibrium of demand/suppply has moved way up. Unless a war happens and demand falls due to decreased population. John

I just hope they do not decide to unload tomorrow or Tuesday on the first piece of bad news. One-day reversals have been so frequent lately. John

I would love to try that one but they don't have a demo you can download and they require customers to sign an acceptance of restrictions regarding external use. Too expensive though but hedge funds can afford to spend this amount for sure. APS from tradingpatterns.com at the other end of the...

Learn how to keep the important things in your mind, the ultimate encryption tool:) John

Absolutely correct! John

This means you curve fitted your system. John

What kind of patterns are you looking for? Maybe you can use Metastock for that. There are some add-ons you can buy. I have been in the market for a good NN program for my FX trading but I can't find one that is easy to use. John

Thanks. The broker can't be ignorant because he is the head of a prestigious private banking trading room. I added the following note to my post: "I forgot to add that the difference in price from the time my friend placed the order to the time it was filled was $500 against him." John

A friend of mine who is an older guy in his late 70's still uses a full serivce broker to purchase fund shares mainly. The other day he decided to go long SPY and called his broker to place the order, business as usual that is. To make a long story short, when my friend got his trade report...

You are right! Thanks, I read it backwards. Still a good PF. I think it can be achieved in real trading but not under current market conditions:) John

I didn't even notice :) John

By PF he probably means profit factor. According to the formula derived by Michael Harris in his website article (http://www.tradingpatterns.com/profitability.pdf): PF = WxR/(1-W) where W is the success rate and R the avg win/avg loss ratio. In his case, PF = 0.7 x 1.3 /(1 - 0.7) = 3.03...

Not yet, there is a lot of room to the downside.

it seems you are the one who hasn't got a clue, based on your trades:) Bill is right, you can lose your shirt trading pairs. there was an article in WSJ about the market neutral funds that went belly up. John

If you don't understand simple concepts such as the Sharpe ratio how in the world: a) are you asking questions about much much more complicated notions like optimization? b) do you expect yourself to develop a profitable intraday trading system? c) do you believe that you can compete...

I'm not sure but you may have to check MarketPosition first, like in: If MarketPosition = 1 then sell next bar at close; John