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Nitro is right on. Your playing in the "grey" area, where the only way to know if you will get your fill on the entry AND exit, is to trade it live. You already know you will LOSE if you dont get the rights fills. That is certain. Determine what percentage of the time you MUST get...

Deep Blue, IBMs second machine, beat Kasparov, not Big Blue. Deep blue used a TWEAKED brute force attack to beat Gary. Only the intelligent paths are searched. All the complex chess playing algorithms that the computer science community had been developing for decades was thrown out...

It has never happened to me, but it's a real risk I consider, and I have seen stocks that I scalp being halted on a date I was not trading them. Tony Oz mentioned in one of his books that because of similar isisues (opening 50% lower the next day after horrible news for example ), he...

And 10 seconds after you get your shares, the stock is halted, and opens 50% lower the next day :D peace axeman

Neener neener.... I KNOW im better than you... Neener neener, my school is better than yours.... Neener neener...your envious of me.... Spoken like a true scholar. :D Oxford will be so proud. peace axeman

Whenever I come up with a system that good, I always assume I screwed up somewhere. I give myself a minimum of 2 weeks to dwell on it, review the code, compare manually to charts, etc, looking for my ERROR. I've found my error every time. :( peace axeman

Side note... Posts like this really confuse me. If it's really such a mental game, and really all about emotional control, etc, why is it that so many people can't even find a single edge in the market? Seems to me the biggest problem is finding an edge, otherwise there would be plenty...

You have 50K shares and you send the SPEC a MARKET ORDER? Is it just me, or are these elephants really that stupid? :D peace axeman

Ummmmmmmm..... how about working on new trading systems? peace axeman

Dont know much about the longer term trading stuff, but it seems to me we at least need a pullback to rest before we blast through the resistence zone we are currently touching. If it just went straight through, without some rest, I would be pretty surprised. That said... im not...

Try this... Start with 2 cents for slippage and commish... ( aka: commish only ) Then keep raising this number until your strategy is break even. Compare this number to the average spread of the stocks you are trading. The break even number better be ahead of the comm + avg slip...

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Quick... everyone go to the hot or not website and give MrMarket a fat 0 :D peace axeman

What exactly was your logic for this simple test? Long on close, if close above prev day close? Exit when we close below prev day close? My results for the Emin from April 98 and on are not good at all. Look quite a bit different than yours. peace axeman

This is exactly what I have been telling people. Mutual funds = worst place to put money Just buy some SPY every month. But i'm not even convinced this is such a great idea. :( You could still end up with ZERO return in 30 years. peace axeman

Ok.... what would you say for the following combinations: 1) 30 years, any amount of volitility 2) 30 years, low volitility 3) 10 years, any amount of volitility 4) 10 years, low volitility Let's assume they are currently 100% in cash. peace axeman

Ok... so now I know enough about trading to NEVER recommend it to family and friends unless they are prepared for an enormous commitment, which most could never do. So my question is... when it comes to investment advice, what do you tell your family and friends? S&P500 buy and hold...

Sorry... you can go to war and die for this country... BUT NO TRADING ACCOUNT FOR YOU! :D ( soup nazi voice ) peace axeman

Stating I lack understanding doesn't make it so. I think history supports my position quite well. I'll put a team of capitalistic nations against a team of socialistic nations any day. Super bowl anyone? I dont need courage to understand anothers viewpoint. Just a rational argument...

All you can do it vote for people who are for smaller, less controlling governments. Write representatives, and try to de-brain the socialists in this country :D peace axeman