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so before I was using open and open because I thought it was taking the bar after the cross, but it was taking the bar OF the crosses my compromise has been to now use close of the bar that caused the cross on entry and the (O+C)/2 average of the bar that caused the cross on exit...

I'm not yet willing to give the details on it. Let's just say it's two weighted moving averages, simple crossing strategy, that's it, no risk management or stop loss, no filtering, no oscillators, no nada. My problem is that I'm still not 100% sure if these results can be trusted. Is it...

I'm backtesting using Thinkorswim strategies using the crossing of two averages....one of which is a weighted close... But how does the system know when they "actually" crossed, doesn't that mean that they won't cross until a bar after when the "close" has pulled the weighted close across...

@ 105,400 after 2 more trades, i'm going to start posting screenshots of my trades and posting them here

so I didn't want to count the trade that I left on overnight as that is uncharacteristic of me to leave a trade up over the weekend and I'm trying to take this seirously, so I offset my balance to the degree that I made on that trade otherwise I would be up 2k+ on the day... anyways, I...

I've been selfstudying trading for years now, but just lately did I start taking it very seriously. I spent the last week papertrading, and realizing that I need to take as much of my discretion out of this process as possible. Not that my discretion is bad, just that for me, the less...

So I've run into a problem where the data I get from Think or Swim simulation (not really trading yet) seems to be about 10-15 minutes delayed, but the Charts are about 10-15 minutes ahead, which means it's impossible to trade... If I just look at the chart, I still can't trade because the...

Thanks i'll look into this when I get home, looks legit =]

Here is an image of my trading history spreadsheet http://www.instantimagehosting.com/storage/tradehistory.JPG

Apparently I am doing pretty well, though I'm inclined to believe I am just getting an extreme case of beginner's luck. I've been trading stocks exclusively, and a couple indexes(if I'm not wrong). Just yesterday I did something different and made some swing trades to see how it'd work out...

I am going to be a sophomore @ Pepperdine, currently interning @ RBS Greenwich Capital in Credit(blow my brains out) the work on this desk is incredibly boring. While I was looking through a firm's financial statements I noticed that they were a proprietary trading firm. I did not know what...