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I used to believe that market behavior and price activity was the result of the psychology of human beings.....however there appears to be something else going on that is a major cause of price movement and not related to human behavior...I actually think it's more related to the natural laws of...

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best damn financial interview I have ever seen bar none..thanks for the heads up if herballife is tender offered...ackman's ass is smoked However, I will say that icahn is gangsta and I like that

damn...watching it now on cnbc..icahn laying the smackdown on timmmmaaayy (aka "this ackman guy")

thanks :)

oh that's nothing a paper bag and beer goggles can't fix :D

Could you provide specs about your R&D machine?

I'm gona forward this to Al to let him know he's got a booty call on deck :D

subscribed ....on the basis that I can always get a laugh from surf's posts

my list is long too....unfortunately I haven't been able to find a replacement....Multi-Charts doesn't really have what I "need" so I just keep my mouth closed and shut the fuck up

what do you mean..."why is it flatlining?" :confused: the flat line is the law of large numbers kicking in...google it

you have no clue what you're doing do you? ET is classic :D

corky's in memphis tennessee...best ribs I've ever eaten

it's very dangerous and scary to watch your account drop 25% and then have the balls to pull the trigger on the next trade....I wouldn't do it be realistic...I would only encourage tolerating a 25% drawdown if you've seen your system recover from such 25%+ drawdowns at a minimum of 30 times...

but Woodie states that one must not look at price :p

The pattern itself is probably not that important as I believe that I could take many different patterns (elliott wave, harmonics, five waves, classic edwards and magees, peter L brandt's patterns, you name it - i'm just pulling these off the top of my head...I don't use any of these) and make...

I personally run away from systems like the plague that don't have at least a 2-to-1 win/loss ratio and around 50% winners give or take a few points...this is my drop dead minimum ...and don't say it can't be done because I trade for a living and do it almost everyday...intraday timeframes...

lack of robustness across markets is a dead giveway for overfit, nine times out of ten, particularly if the model is based on some form of price pattern recognition.

survivorship bias?....ok now run your test for a different but equal time period.....oooh say....1999 to 2004 and tell me what you come up with. I'd be willing to bet the house that it blows up.

Have you ever traded with real money? I'm assuming you haven't or else your experience would clearly tell you that marginally profitable strategies never hold up in the real world and the more trades you examine the more the performance of the system will degrade. I looked at that paper...