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Hey Sikhinvestor, Describe your feelings to us. What are you feeling right now?

Yes I just picked 10 % of the closing price as a number to use for calculation purposes. Some traders call the 10 % value the "heat" parameter. In this case if the stock price falls 10 % it represents a $ 100 loss. We could "turn up the heat" by selecting 5 % instead of 10 %. In the case of 5 %...

I don't use indicators. I don't really use charts. I remember testing lots of ideas. Lots of things work, but I can not convince myself of a clear advantage.

I remember the first time I quit my job to run my business full time. I thought I was nuts or going crazy. I decided that if I am making money, meeting expenses and saving money then I can not be crazy. I think profitability is the difference between living an a fantasy delusional world and...

Hello C. Chugani, I think this is a good way to start. I remember doing similar studies about year 2003. 1) Download about 40 years daily price data for General Electric stock symbol GE from yahoo.com. 2) Copy and paste the GE price data into a Microsoft Excel or Works spreadsheet...

I started writing computer programs to test trading methods. Believe it or not, lots of methods work. I think the computerized methods win overall because computers always follow the rules. People lose because they encounter a losing streak and change their rules. Hiring a trainer might just be...

Florida on the Atlantic Ocean. Sales are slow, there are lots of houses and condos listed for sale but few buyers. Maybe buyers are waiting until after the hurricane season to purchase. No point in buying a house just to see the roof get torn off by a hurricane.

Actually the hard part is keeping the wife from finding out that you have $ 30,000.

Hey Info: Thanks, but I get my tips from this dizzy blonde (everything by the book). http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/stfu.php Isn't that the CBOT tbond desk? LOL love the video I wanna meet that girl.

My impression is it's the old guys that make the money in the long run. The old guys seem to remember things like the 1987 stock market crash and can sometimes sense another crash coming.

You can't tell till you bet. Seriously. I know of no way to tell for sure if the price of anything is going down tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year. The only thing I know is if the price is lower now that it was at some prior moment. When I am wrong I stop the loss. I...

Yeah. You need data. High low time data in a text file is good. Then write a program that examines intervals of data, say every 10 records of 1 minute data and reports the highest price and lowest price. Once the highest and lowest price are known all kinds of analysis can be coded into the...

If you get a job and save $ 1000 then you have $ 2000. That's a 100 % gain! I think it is much easier to make 100 % gains by working and saving than by trading. It's the rich guys that have to speculate. The rich guys can't get a job and double $ 10 million in a year, most paychecks are not that...

Eat dry oatmeal for lunch. Works for me.

You might want to check price data downloaded from Yahoo.com. Sometimes I find missing dates, missing data.

Old and maybe ancient trading rules: Buy high. Sell higher. Stop loss. Follow the trend. Keep the bet small. Stick to the method. Every method that I remember testing shows losing trades. Losing trades are a normal part of trading. I deal with losing positions by stopping losses.

How do you know your wife has died? The sex is the same but the dishes keep piling up in the sink. :D

Omgdallas, I think you have lots of good things happening now. You can write code to test trading methods. Download price data off the internet and backtest with it. Don't worry about your full time job for the moment. You can always go looking for another job. If you can successfully develop a...

I wonder if we can develop an analog model for real estate similar to the analog model used by Paul Tudor Jones to time the stock market crash of 1987.