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I notice coffee futures price values continue increasing and with gaps. http://news.tradingcharts.com/futures/6/8/124163786.html "So far, world demand remains steady despite the ongoing world economic crisis, while tight supplies of Colombian and to a lesser extent, Central American...

I wonder what is happening with coffee. I notice a gap on the May 2009 coffee futures chart and three small coffee company stocks appear recently on the new 52 week high price list. CBOU CARIBOU COFFEE COMPANY NASD DDRX DIEDRICH COFFEE NASD GMCR GREEN MOUNTAIN COFFEE ROASTERS INC. NASD

Does your trading model include a slippage assumption? In my work with Emintrader system I assume zero slippage but in real trading slippage can sometimes be significant.

I calculate two buy signals today, HCBK at $ 12.58 / share and SCHW at $ 17.84 / share. I attach both stock charts. I do not calculate any sell signals during the day so I sell both positions at the close. I calculate a buy signal for HCBK appears about 10:30 AM USA Eastern Daylight...

How do you calculate the overall % result? I notice Monday 04-27-09 05:40 PM you report an overall % result of + 129,85%. I calculate 129.85 - 1.499 -1.21 = 127.141 You calculate 126.861.

I observe, using data from bigcharts.com (graph attached) that SCHW opens at 17.68. Your L5 value is 2.2117. I calculate the buy target price as 17.68 * 1.022117 = 18.07. I notice bigcharts.com reports a high price for the day of 17.99. I do not calculate a buy signal for SCHW today. Please...

This is an example of a fully disclosed mechanical trading system: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76216. Note the fully disclosed trading rules and position sizing algorithm. I am not able to find ANY fully disclosed, mechanical, back tested, verifiable day trading...

I organized the SPY cycle data into a spreadsheet.

I really do not know what to think of cycles. Maybe I am entertaining myself by writing computer programs. I write computer programs to analyze price value cycles. Attached is the output from one of my programs using daily Standard And Poors Index Tracking Stock symbol SPY price values...

Is a fully disclosed, fully defined mechanical profitable day trading system, with back tests, with independent verification, described on elitetrader.com? I am not able to find one.

I test nonoptimum parameter sets to learn if the system shows profitable results under varying conditions. I test my system by adding noise to price values and observing trading simulation results. If I need to be feel comfortable then I do not trade.

I notice a divergence between graphs of various natural gas futures price contracts.

How do you plan to trade using correlation?

I wonder if it is necessary to have three moving averages. These rules might model the same trading concept with two moving averages: 1) Buy when closing price is less than fast moving average value AND 2) fast moving average value > slow moving average value.

If pricevalue > HighLimitOfPriceRangeOfPrior10Intervals then buy; If pricevalue < LowLimitOfPriceRangeOfPrior20Intervals then sell;

1987 flashback. Monday, 19 October 1987 the Dow Jones Industrial Average is way down about 10:00 AM following the big decrease Friday 16 October 1987. I remember telephoning my broker to buy stocks because I figure prices are way low. The broker does not answer the telephone for two hours...

I remember another thing happening during the spring of year 2003. I recall bank stocks rallying to new record high prices but I did not know why. Today I might say the reason for the rally was the real estate boom and the mortgage business boom, but I wasn't smart enough to figure it out at the...

I recall studying the Indian and Chinese economies about January 2003. I remember labor costs in both countries averaging about US $ 2 / day although there was a substantial range of values. I recall interpreting the stock market index curves very differently. The attached chart shows the...

From my files. This is the price graph of SPY, the Standard and Poors 500 index tracking stock from March 2003.

I have a Vista system. I remember once not being able to delete or remove a program. I changed the name of the file extension to .txt so the system identifies it as a text file. Then the system allowed me to delete the file.