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Since you are making a living trading, find something you are interested in and do that. Fun is good. My personal experience may provide inspiration. I'm a retired software engineer and am able to make my living by trading. I still do some consulting when the opportunity tracks me down...

Backtesting must cover at least one market cycle and preferably two. Since this data is what you used to tune your system, it must be validated with at least one market cycle outside of the two you used to develop you system. "Since the beginning of the year" is woefully short for an adequate...

Every doctor learns during training, "The Difference Between Medicine and Poison is in the Dose."

More Students Turning Illegally To 'Smart' Drugs

Now that's funny. I don't care who you are. :cool:

Perhaps some may benefit from material I developed about designing a workstation for a course I teach. From my background as a software engineer and a private pilot, some principles of human interface design have come a long way in the last 30 years. First, it is important to recognize...

It sound like you have not been trading real money for very long. That is a concern. Check out How to become an equity trader working for a Proprietary Trading Firm

It depends on your skill set in monetizing your knowledge, how much effort you want to devote to this effort and who you know that can carry you over the speed bumps in the opportunities you listed. Your opportunities roughly divide into the following categories. Selling system Selling...

1. Your question reminds me of what was said about a Rolls Royce. "if you have to ask the price, you can't afford one." 2. Your past performance is probably the least important element in successfully starting a hedge fund. It's a given and will be checked by investors doing their due...

I'm not following your explanation here. If you have tick data, you can simulate any bar length and indicator. The only thing back-testing with tick data wont tell you is what fills you would get. Where am I wrong here?

You're not the Lone Ranger here. :eek:

Use tick data.

Please explain.

For lightly traded issues, one person can move the market significantly. Use your favorite and search for "pump and dump scams."

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Hmmm. I received my patent and developed my best selling product after the age of 55. Of course, I've been a software engineer since I was 19. Many of the "programmers" at HFT firms have advanced degrees in mathematics. It's the math more than the programming that gives these firms their...

And so it goes.

Many stocks are so lightly traded they may not open for hours. Given good liquidity and how much of the market is now traded electronically without specialists, there may be a large bid/ask spread. It takes time for the buyers and sellers to resolve this for trading to begin. And then...

It is important to recognize the limitations of paper trading. Professionally, I was a software engineer, so I analogize paper trading as running a prototype or beta testing software. It's good for getting out the "big" bugs and establishing that it does not crash and burn during testing. Some...

No worries. If there is more than one way to interpret what someone says to me, I always assume the positive one until proven otherwise. You are a gentlemen for your concern. Thanks.