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iqfeed froze for a couple min when this happened, happened to me and several others from another forum. no bueno!

Thursday was one hell of an up day. Wonder if today was setting us up for the run to Dow 25,000 before year end?

Nice trading friend.

Tax vote 11 AM Keep some powder dry boys

Potential long setup if gold bounces off the rising weekly trendline.

Damn I was wrong, Nasdaq still inching lower

Selling has concluded. Buy algos have been activated.

Pretty tempted to sell my DOW and buy in on NQ. Delicious dip opportunity.

3000... or 3300?

***ALERT ALERT DIP ALERT*** BUY BUY BUY

Short SPX 2600 if I had to choose. I'd prefer to be long on both. Takes two sides to make a market I guess.

Tough to call the market top. I'd look for a lower swing high on the weeklies first.

Maybe or maybe not. It depends on your nominal account size if you're trading futures. I actually just posted this in a different thread. Consider an account size of $10,000: One contract of ES since Nov 8 2017 = ~$24,000 profit $10,000 of UPRO since Nov 8 2017 = ~$7,000 profit Maintenance...

"When long, be long the strongest. When short, be short the weakest." -Peter Brandt

You know, you're right. One contract of ES since the election = ~$24,000 profit $10,000 of UPRO since the election = ~$7,000 profit

Buy UPRO

This thread inspired me to go long Dow futures last week so the top is probably in :cool:

Yeah, you're probably right. The main question then would be how long of a segment to use for backtesting.

Of course you're right that optimization can produce overfitted models with no alpha. However, WFA is much more than simply dividing your data into two segments. You optimize your strategy on segment 1 and then test on segment 2. You are not allowed to optimize using data from segment 2. That...

Gotta accept risk if you want return. Maybe diversify across a few sectors?