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i agree with others - backtesting is worthless - only good to get ideas when developing - run it in sim/demo for a few months (assuming your sim acct has real time feed and real rules) to answer your Q - there is a website that allows traders to sell/market their strategies and to subscribe to...

Oh no - not the "gut feeling trade. I have been in same boat with day trading. What I did, and everyone is different, when my system started to break down I took time off and built a new system that works for me now with current markets and my lifestyle - it took a few months to build and...

- accept the fact not everyone is cut out for trading - it is very hard to change yourself for this job so only take trades that fit your emotions. In other words, continue to seek increasingly lower risk high reward trades until you find a trade with which you are comfortable. Even if that...

I wont even entertain the idea of back to the grind - jobs make money but freedom is priceless! :D

Much HF takes advantage of order flow arbitrage. Orders flow is constant. The quants who build that stuff have big companies and lots of other quants behind their efforts to scalp/clip changes in the flow.

You day trading? Swing? longer term? I have a system that is very reliable that trades horizontal breakouts but it is a day trading technique very specific to the time of day (among a long list of other tings) - which makes a huge difference in it's success rate. It is also very specific to...

There are websites that offer free stock scanning tools for technical indicators. As far as broker goes - does it really matter if you are swing trading? Your probably paying retail for stocks and most offer the tools you need - if day trading then you have to be particular about who you use...

LOL -forget crunching numbers - do standup comedy :D

Hey, I was in your shoes years ago. Been there, done that. Private, then prop, now back to private. Had same issues with timing. Had many issues with the prop. Your prop should set you up with a mentor. To find out how you are going wrong would take a bit of analysis and time - too much for this...

Like the fact you are educating yourself and you are taking initiative to post here albeit a long post. I have said this many times over the years - you can turn the simplest technique into a profitable trading system if you take the time to fully understand how to use it, when to use it, what...

retailers report later in the season - since we are a 'shoppers' (debit, credit) economy I bet (a beer) 4Q retail reports move the markets if unexpected either direction - but not betting my money on anything :D

most investors follow what they see on tv or in print - which is mostly garbage to get you to watch their commercials.

I am constantly analyzing my stock behavior and systems performance and making changes. Last year I started to become more active in dropping/adding stocks off my watch list - even some that had been favorites for almost 2 years got the boot and replacements found when they start trading poorly...

Well said FSnopes

focus on proper trading and money management. scaling in-out, setting proper stop losses, target price selections, when not to trade and so on. You can be right only 30-40% (or less depending on your system) of the time and still be profitable when employing proper trade management techniques

Depends on your investment vehicle and time frame. My day trading system does not care a lick about the economy, market direction, company behind the stock. If position/core trading I would take a bigger picture look and become more fundamentally and economically conscious.

Back in the day, as a prop we had 95% attrition rate with day traders - why? almost all had unrealistic expectations of fast money and F'cars. The ones (like me) who succeeded knew it would take 1-3 years of hard full time work to get comfy and find consistency - just to get started. As far as...

will see how it closes. big gappers almost always consolidate on gap day.

It is all about the demographic. Look at the lower level of education of those you reference. Higher percentage of smokers as well. Divorce rate is higher. WMT picks their locations based on demographic (eg. lower income, lower education, etc). Doesn't have anything to do with cost of food. It...