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Easiest way for people to understand is: The strategy should be profitable(significant) before the optimization. .... In terms of optimizing an indicator for discretionary tool, you need to understand stand the purpose of the tool. If you use the MovAverage for trends, you'll...

Well... Previously, we've been using a broker provided API to execute our trades and I've got experience with coding Java/.NET APIs. Fortunately, we've been doing well and rose up to an occassion where we can execute our trades directly with banks and FCMs. In order to do so, our firm is...

Batman needs a career coach more than anybody... End of thread.

Does OPM count? :D :D :D

Pretty much the same as CBOT with CME. You working as a clerk??? For who???

Just shows how inconsistent you are with your trading...

??????? MY stocks???

Everything... 100% First time, Corn on May. 1997 Second time, Gold on Dec. 1998 Losing it all twice is prolly the best lesson I've had...

First it's the ease of use... It's easy to search and posts. Relatively fast. And the format of the site is simple and organized. Second, it's the moderation... I've seen enough potentially good message boards go away due to Russian software spam. Also, vendor spams are identified fast...

It's got value. You have to consider testing Elliott Wave (or Gann) in a composite sense... For example, have you tested Elliott Wave with the wave past patterns into consideration? Multiple timeframe... Multiple resolution... should be considered for testing...

Bwahahahaha!!! Typical loser degression in this industry... Trader > Broker > Software/Trading Service Sales > Recruiter

Test everything.

There was a time when Chit-Chat didn't exist. It's there for a reason...

The process of achieving is always painful. But harder the process, greater the return. Process = Risk. Risk = Reward.

Learn to program. Everyone has their own compentency but eventually, as a system trader, you have to code your own database, tester, and execution platform. TraderStudio, Wealth-Lab, Tradestation, TradeBlox... etc. etc. are a good starting point but you have to break public (3rd party...

Both edge and risk management is important.

I'm John Galt.

Says who?

1. There's commission / cost of trading. 2. Law of Large numbers. Given that you have a breakeven strategy. Can you withstand the drawdown / streak of losses... 3. Tests. How reliable is your test? Is the dataset large enough? Did you test it realistically? etc. etc. 4. Start...

Just charts and price action... Charts (plural)... it's very complicating... Becomes "comfortable" with time. In terms of automated trading systems, what is very "simple" like chart patterns, we discretionarily proclaim, becomes a very complicated code. For example, it's easy to say...