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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    Art, These must be stupid fellows selling their precious strategies for just 20% of profits! http://www.iasg.com/groups/group/winton-capital-management/program/diversified why on earth they are doing this? could anybody explain? i personally think the owners of the fund do not have $14B...
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    interesting thought, thanks! what about all these CTAs? why they manage assets for other people? well, some are Very successful!
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    Hi Arthur, No , i hear this story for the first time, incredible! i sympathize with india, vipassana, vedas, osho, taoism osho once said, talking about why bliss should be sold: "everything in this world has to be achieved". "if you give away something for free, people will never...
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    criticism is welcome. everyone is invited to select systems to track in this journal. one point: i don't see a reason of random picking, or picking systems which are already bouncing around break even for a couple of months. or systems which are during a large DD. By large i mean $10k or...
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    just look at the equity curves of some of the systems posted. sometimes they are similar like for example "Charter" systems posted by one developer, but when you scroll through the rankings, you'll see that we are dealing here with a wide spectrum of strategies.
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    bill, its true- the number of possible systems is infinite. however on TS website we have so many developers, so many markets. i tend to think these 360 systems are very different one to the other. i highly doubt all these people who post systems there are using the same indicator or method...
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    I disagree that we are dealing here with low number of observation. On TS website we have about 360 trading systems currently. Its quite large number, don't you think? A large drawdown is a single event, but there is no need to make a requirement for a large number of trades during a...
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    The market can massively turn against this trade. The system was probably optimized so the most probable scenario is that EURUSD will sharply rise in the coming days ;-) but if the price will fall.... it will be: - a miracle - just a lucky string of events helping this system capitalizing...
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    Another one: "Charter Soybeans" https://strategynetwork.tradestation.com/StrategyNetworkStore/StrategyPerformance.aspx?ParentId=1006 Very interesting equity curve. "Charter Coffee" https://strategynetwork.tradestation.com/StrategyNetworkStore/StrategyPerformance.aspx?ParentId=622 this...
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    hey, if you know systems which are constantly making money, tracked by a 3rd party in real time AND without drawdowns deeper than $10k, post them here. I'm sure we will all want to know such systems! I may expand the number of systems to monitor. ScaleOutBarracuda NG-2...
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    and this is exactly what we will find out in my journal. public systems making money? the developer should max his ten credit cards and trade his systems with 20x leverage! either the system is a disaster waiting to happen or it is making money every week. there is nothing in between.
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    Gold system is long from 1383.5 today Watch it losing at least 3 grand on this trade! Cruiser system is short EURUSD from 1.4059 Current price about 1.3220. We all know that the only way to make profits is making 50 trades per day on every news and spike and having at least 90%...
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    first, let's look at the recent months of performance. seems to be awesome, huh? beware, huge losses will shortly have to occur. i advice to browse through this TS service. you'll quickly notice that most systems are doing very, very poorly. any wins are followed by massive drawdowns. its...
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    "There are already successful people who are pure mechanical traders" oh really? i'm sure 99% of readers will agree with me. only discretionary traders obsessed with big boobs and bags of donuts can make money on the markets. systems are dumb, they cannot relate to emotions, which move the...
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    The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Trading Systems

    In my Journal i'm going to document, with a brutal logic and commitment! how mechanical trading systems do not work. I will be using live results and a 3rd party provider. I've chosen 5 trading systems posted to Tradestation Strategy Network. The criteria: - highest annualized rate of...
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    Economists against Fed

    if only those economists knew to what party former fed boss, greenspan, attended. bohemian grove- the meeting of top satanists. these economists are clueless. they do not know the simple fact that the Fed is doing EVERYTHING possible to make the economy worse for the majority of people and...
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    Would a hedge fund every be interested in a system

    no, you must have a 5+ years track record on minimum 1 million dollars, phd in physics, mathematics, send them real time signals for a "trial" period of 6 months. Pay with your own money for any software you need and receive a payout of 2% of your P/L after a full year ends, provided of course...
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    Donald Trump sums it up perfectly in this video.

    as i said, america wants to compete? work for 80cents per hour and you'll be able to export goods. chinese can and do whatever they want with their currency- the country has freedom to choose what it wants. usa... adapt or die. plus its silly and definitely NOT responsible to blame...
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    Donald Trump sums it up perfectly in this video.

    chinese manipulating their currency so it is weak? yeah, how about USA? with all this bernanke printing? that is not manipulation, suuure!
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    Donald Trump sums it up perfectly in this video.

    hey americans. you want jobs? work for 80 cents per hour as hard as chinese with no benefits and no free weekends and maybe you will have a production jobs! that simple. mr trump is lying in your face
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