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Most of my trades are placed without looking at a chart. I've developed a trading system that I apply to about 60 small cap stocks and trade them intraday. Tradestation generates b/s orders and I place them or sometimes let it place them automatically. DS

Agree with you. Based on reading in other BBs, it seems some traders ignore "black swans" type risk. Not just the occasional market event, but events in placing trades such as loss of internet connections, somebody hitting a telephone pole, failure of their computer with a big position and...

I do it with MacroExpress. There is an explanation of how this is done at Tradestationworld. Doug

I did an interesting test today to see if Jack's Jokari window would test out as a system. My interest in this came about after I finished a section of Journal I where Spyder and Trend Fader got into a discussion over whether volume had any predictive value. It's on page 138. So to see if...

I do recall that post on the Monday after Thanksgiving from my reading and in part that triggered my question re. today being slow. I think on Monday, I'll be in the "cheap seats" just watching the market and not trading the JH stocks. You mentioned FORD and JMDT's action today. I did not...

Spyder, as today is the day b4 a holiday and trading should be light; have you considered reducing the DUV, FRV requirement? DS

I used 30 minute bars. Doug

IN the spreadsheet I posted earlier, I list the truerange/close for all the stocks in my JH universe. This varies from a low of 0.62% to a high of 2.1%, a large spread. Doug

Next try at attaching the spreadsheet.

This is a technique I use in my other trading. It tries to compensate various system parametres based on their relative volatility to the entire universe. For my universe of about 60 stocks, I calculate the average and then adjust each stock based on its relative volatility. I define...

My JH trading day: Closed RATE for a small gain Closed half of my PTC for a 5% gain, and the remaining open position showed a nice gain during the day Bought NGPS and closed it for a 2% loss. Doug

Kind off reminds me of that old saying: Why do we have economic forecasts? Answer: To make astrology respectable. DS

Today, Friday, my activity: Entered NGPS and exited at EOD as it did not reach FRV for a wash trade. Still holding CMCO, PTC, and RATE. All had gains during the day. Sold half the CMCO for a 5% gain. Doug

G87, Thank you. I don't know why most everyone else got out of TIE with the 2% stop but I didn't. I was using a stop a little higher than 2% as described earlier and maybe that was why. Doug

Marty, GMXR reached Peak Volume on Weds, so I exited early on Thursday. Doug

Thursday entries: TIE CMCO RATE Closed GMXR for a very nice gain (it reached PV on Weds, so I closed it about 15 minutes after the open.) Closed TIE for a wash. Holding PTC, CMCO, and RATE. Friday list: KNDL, LIFC, NGPS Doug

marty, I think we worry about people we like, especially ones that post a .jar file that makes life easier :) Doug

marty-I think Spyder commented on this too. I've been trading for most of my income for over 10 years and believe me, I learned the hard way to leave hope and prayer out of it. If you get taken out by your stop, accept it and move on. I believe a good trade is one where you follow your...

RE: 2% stop I'll give you my take on this. In my other trading I trade about 60 small cap stocks. One of the things I do is look at the relative volatility of the universe and adjust certain parameters based on that. For my Jack H universe, I get a overall volatility of 1.276 defined...

fwiw, here is my trading page for TIE on 11-17 at 948 am CST DS