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Even lower. The plan is to unload gold to third word countries and then raise rates so that price collapses. It will be another major wealth transfer.

lol!

" Can linear regression analysis really predict the future? " No, it can only come up with some "best fit" for the past.

An SMA crosssover systm will also produce good results with a bit of tweaking. Have you heard of the word optimization?

It's a good question. Simply because there was no other way to deal with high capacity and production. The same reality forced Germany to conspire with France to form the EU. What good is a new BMW if you have no buyers for it? You give away money to residents of other countries to buy it, you...

“He who sells what isn’t his’n, must buy it back or go to prison” "A classic little saying about short selling on Wall Street is: “He who sells what isn’t his’n, must buy it back or go to prison.” The origin of the saying is unknown, but by 1898 it was attributed to financier...

It appears so...and at that time the web was not developed to a point where users could exchange ideas in newsgroups and become aware of those issues fast. IMO the other two posters discussing this paper missed the main point. The author actually tests a very simple system manually and then...

To say the least...Pairs trades are for those who love double hits...

Pair trading is for those who love double losses.

I was reading an article on trading software (I lost the link) and they mentioned native vs. .NET applications. Can someone explain the difference? Thanks

Did they reveal their positions?

I recall I dealt with this issue long time ago when I was playing with easylanguage. I think there are a few functions you can use to set stop-loss and profit level but I don't remember now which ones I used. I think the usual way of exiting won't consider entry bars for exits.

Contact Equis. Unless you "cannot", you know that I mean...

It depends on the timeframe you select. Some people trade 1-minute bars, others 10-minutes, others trade hourly bars, you name it.

No, the function that determines the commission as a percentage of account value is non-deterministic for most systems.

I don't care if you disagree or not. You show that you have no idea of what you are talking about. Less than 200 short term trades in 20 years is NOT a statistically significant sample. You basically have no idea of what statistically significant means. In 20 years you need at least 1000 trades...

Total garbage. You and I exchange $1 every minute for an hour. The volume is $60. Nothing was bought or sold. No value was added. It is equivalent to exchanging nothing, or 0 volume. Except if were are asked to pay tax on it. This is why a tax on transactions will actually make things more...

As with any server based system, a malicious host can have complete knowledge on what is on your hard drive. I am not saying TS will do that, but theoretically they can. Normally, they would not even bother doing it because they know you will lose all your money at the end, this is what...

To start with, NYSE trades in USD and LSE in GBP. Then, you cannot sell ADRs in another market. You must offset each position in its own market while you are facing exchange risk and bid/ask spreads plus commissions. Do you know what fx risk is? Some forex market maker decides to take your...

This type of work is uselss to the buy side. It is of use to the sell side for pricing and Taleb argues that this type of thinking contributed to the financial crisis.