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if my observation and simplistic conclustion of the conversation on this thread sounds pretty absurd( I think so) and stupid.. it might be because the behavior and actions of people on this thread here is pretty damn stupid. My stupidity must pales in comparison with the...

Me too..I only want to use TA that is objective and make sense in some manner, which is why I went systematic...

a good trader is one who doesn't lose a lot of money..

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now..we have a bunch of new-age Scientist talking about astrology.... I will make a very simplistic observation from what I have gather from this thread so far.. some of you suggest gann=astrology and some of you suggest gann=science ok...so science=astrology and gann...

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ok.. would you then be so kind to enlighten me about gann, richard dawkin and the creationist... I would assume you have study each of their arguments.. So by exposing my ignorance on the subject.. does it makes Gann 's "theories" any more scientific than b4? sorry ...but you...

this thread reminds me of the Creationist argument.. please don't say Gann's method is scientific...it's not.. Where is Richard Dawkin of trading strategies?

I think that TA is dispised amongst academics because most of it is not objective and there is simply no logic behind it.. (e.g. why should the market go up in 5 waves?) you are right... Trend following works and contrarian strategies are opposites sides of a coin and they both works...

Most TA doesn't work elliot wave,gann, patterns, oscillators.. none of it survive under backtesting (assuming it could objectively backtested) the only TA that has any validity is trend-following.. ma and breakouts.. if anyone bother to read the paper b4 they comment on it...

you think too much...

that's the lamest excuse I have heard in awhile.. I can see how depressing It hear this stuff.. CUT THE CRAP..ok...canyonman..it's embarrasing

great to hear you are getting started.. I have used tradestation2000i for awhile and happy with it but wealth-lab can do portfolio testing and money mangement is a real plus.. don't know about TS6 though

yeah..I trade at home... I trade anything that moves...:)

Can anyone recommmend a good source of tick data? I have looked at Tickdata but I heard some bad comments about data quality? Thanks:)

whatever..man.. I know this stuff is really senstive to some people, and you are right,I am really in no position to give a obective and informed opinion, and I don't think you or most people have the capacity to do so too, politics is really not the kind of thing we should just...

It's the money... try trading one-lot and you won't feel a thing.. as the size of your win/loss gets bigger in monetary terms it 's going more and more stressful beause pusing your pain threshold.. my biggest lost in ONE DAY (actually 15 minutes) is $80,000...and I still...

This must be a joke.. The global PR offensive launched by Arabs?Holocust? Man, I might be misguided, but you are definitely paranoid to come up with such consipiracy theories.. I might be misinformed and brainwash and by TV, but how come all the news channels I am watching...

I have to agree, someone ask why didn't they attack Japan or Germany? everyone thinks Bin laden is a some doomsday nutcase that wants to end the world. He is not... He is doing it for very specific reasons.. he is taking REVENGE on the United States for atrocities...

Every trade is closed at a LOST, even if the trade is a winner.. if you can't manage to buy at the low and sell at the exact high, then every trade is a LOSER... once you are in a trade...your entryprice has nothing to do with the trade anymore...your profits are part of your equity...