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Not Maestro, but still comment. I have a very good impression from this book, mostly as a set of examples, which confirm the intuitive abilities and encourages reader to pay more attention to this sphere.

One more question if you allow: what was your criteria of a "trader" for those experiments? Some professional benchmark or anything else?

Yes, that's why I asked. Must be not easy at very least to form a group of traders willing to participate.

I see. Thanks a lot for explanations. How large groups of traders do you usually use in experiments?

Understood, thanks. Asked, because Denise Shull mentioned improvement of profitability among traders who ceased red from their charts, because red is usually associated with something stressful and dangerous (likely on a natural level for all humans due to the color of blood) and may influence...

Maestro, Speaking of colors, would you agree with the thesis that using "emotionally neutral" colors in software is probably better solution for traders, than coloring things with colors, known to provoke certain emotions? "Color neutrality" would focus a trader more on intellectual side...

Reminds me again of Taleb's analogy: Fat Tony vs. Dr. John. if you find roulette wheel where you consistently get red in 60% of cases it's not a lucky streak, it's a broken roulette. :p

I would agree with you, but what to do with that experimental (or "experiental" as you called it) evidence?

Doubt market cares of TA at all to protect itself from it.

I don't and I can't are two slightly different matters. :)

No, edge becomes obvious after a couple dozens of trades in a row already. But if it was just a lucky streak, edge would disappear after a while, which is not true, rather opposite: edge existence is confirmed further.

Not at all. We can discuss probability of a certain event (or a series of events) being luck or not, based on CLT for example.

Logically, there can be much more forms of transmission of information, which are simply not discovered by science yet. So why not.

Probability of a lucky streak is quite easily quantified. Clearly successful TA application has nothing to do with luck. Hundreds and hundreds of trades producing very consistent profit have extremely low probability of being just luck.

I agree with you that it's far from perfect. But nevertheless usable on serious size too.

So you believe no decent ROC can be achieved with TA at all?

You've been criticizing but not providing any arguments, which explain your position. It is not constructive. See how Maestro replies to his opponents, he always provides some valuable arguments, not just "you are wrong" kind of answers.

So if you made more profits with TA you would trade yourself as a main occupation? Or not?

Why don't you enlighten me and others here instead of throwing in the towel? I share my experience and am open for discussion. If you have constructive arguments to correct me, please provide them for the benefit of ET as a whole. It creates quality content, the matter we talked about yesterday...

We are speaking about completely different matters here. Soros trading based on his back ache has nothing to do with impulsive trading you described in the previous posts. Literally 100% probability that when Soros decides to buy or sell, based on his research or back ache, doesn't matter, he...