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    Survival characteristics of CTAs, traders, & hedge funds

    Sticking with a well researched plan and following strict money management is what I hear is required to be successful.
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    Trading Book

    Good question. Although I find that overnight atr levels are increasing, as well as volume, I still think building systems over the day session only is still viable. What have you found?
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    Trading Book

    This test was produced with both session data.
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    Aaron chat

    That is great Harris, you are a celebrity! I probably missed it in the article, did you just short those stocks or buy puts or what not?
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    Trading Book

    Account size required is simply a statistic by TS stating the amount necessary to trade the system. As you inferred it would not be wise to be undercapitalized and most big sp systems require more startup capital than this. Although this system is merely used as an example its net profit to...
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    Trading Book

    JT, you are right in your assessment of the goal. In order to reach that goal, though, the market environment has to be quantified somehow and therein lies the difficulty. In my observations once an environment is identified most of the 'environment' is over. So to address your...
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    Trading Book

    Tony, nice to hear from you a while back. The L/S hasn't hit a new high in 7 months which is the longest period in the past 4 years. This could mean there has been a character change in the market but it is tough to say. Since the equity high it has given back some 400 points of the 2150...
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    Do commodities vary in the short term?

    Markets fall faster than they rise.
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    Aaron chat

    Good job Aaron...
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    Need serious backtesting capabilities

    TS will help, possibly radar screen which comes with it.
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    thursday DOWN day for djia

    nice call so far surf.
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    System Evaluation

    Interesting, thanks for the clarifiation.
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    hedge funds performance

    Targeting 40-50% a year pre fess is tough but some hf's pull it off. We target 30% or so.
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    System Evaluation

    stock777, how is the system out of the market over night yet use eod data?
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    System Evaluation

    As another has said it is nice to see it made money the past few years but imo this profit factor is low. Most price based long/short systems have this profit factor and tend to rely on outliers for their profits. Good luck though.
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    The Matrix Reloaded

    awesome movie, could do without the sex though.
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    For those experienced in system development

    Hi Prox, as you eluded to if losses can be controlled this could be a viable method. Breakouts, at least in my testing, perform considerably well over the long term. I would highly recommend testing over longer data files though. If this is a dt system then you could even just combine your...
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    Best way to learn Easylanguage?

    I echo others. There is tremendous help at the ts world forum.
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    Is the Rally almost over??

    vix is at 21.12 and the daily atr is < 13 points. It has to fail soon.
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    Trading Book

    Hi Tony, for the past year if the time filter is moved back an hour it performs better. For the above report I simply left it as is trading at 1300 est or later. Are you monitoring it?
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