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What NoDoji said. Trends don't fail, trend traders fail. They fail to find the trend in a timely manner ("trendlines"? Seriously?) and hence they fail to secure a decent profit before the trend ends. Get a clue, oily.

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FWIW the standard settings for MACD are 8,17,9 (exits) and 12,25,9 (entries). The setting of 12,26,9 that you see almost everywhere is a typo that got of control. The "logic", such as it is, for the original settings is 2/(8+1) = 2*(2/(17+1)) and 2/(12+1) = 2*(2/(25+1))

The 10% aren't winning at golf-cart speeds.

Sorry but that's nonsense. You're not going to turn cowflop into beefstew no matter how hard you work at it, and most indicators are cowflop. Traders gotta start thinking for themselves and stop believing that just because something is written in a book or appears on many websites, that is...

If you wingnut assclowns want to be mad about this, blame Reagan. Before Reagan, the BLS counted a part-time job as half a full-time job. This made perfect sense because the average part-time job was 20 hours a week. Reagan mandated that a part-time job should count the same as a full-time...

"Romney is the sleaziest piece of shit to ever try getting into the whitehouse" Amen to that. He's even worse than Dubya, which I didn't think was possible. Every bit as big a pathological liar as Cheney. Downright creepy when you read this guy's whole history. Sociopath City. :( :mad:

It looks like you're looking to predict rather than detect. Just do a google search on "trend day" and you'll find posts like this one: http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2009/01/six-ways-to-identify-trend-day-in-stock.html

Why disappointed? I can't think of a thing either of those two posted prior to Obama's election that didn't predict where they'd end up: birtherism and teavangelism.

Nothing new with this infection. They've been the party of plutocrats and theocrats for decades now. They just no longer try to hide that fact from the rest of America. Even some low-info voters (those who aren't already in the wingnut camp) are picking up on that now. I have no hope for them.

Any indicator that gives me a buy signal at one time and a sell signal the very next time step is worthless IMO. I never saw the value in using candles for myself but I'm in no position to say they don't have value to somebody else. I just ignore any indicators that ever whipsaw me. My only...

I voted Libertarian twice before; not really a satisfying experience.

I'm not angry or frustrated. Delusional much? :D You've made no case. You deliberately ignored a valid criticism of your article and tried to change the subject to my so-called "emotional troubles." Very amateurish, and a big FAIL. So you're now revealed as a hit-and-run cheapshot artist...

Your article makes the ridiculous ASSumption that whoever has working TA is just going to share it with all other traders. I don't know anyone that stupid. This has been pointed out to you before yet you keep posting that silly article. Learning challenged?

Just a guess but I think he means tape reading, i.e., no charts. That's pretty much how I trade; haven't looked at a chart in months. I just let my algorithms crunch the numbers. Not about to disclose specifics of course ...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1914070&highlight=nypd#post1914070

+1 Also, animosities from the Politics and Religion section have spilled over into the trading forums. We now have posters getting attacked in trading and their threads being down-rated simply because some assclowns didn't like what they posted in P&R. The whole thing is incredibly...

Not true. Normal MAs are lowpass filters, and the output of a lowpass filter is always less noisy than the input, otherwise what's the point of using them? "Zero-lag MAs" aren't true lowpass filters, so no surprise that they add noise.

The problem with "zero-lag" MAs is that they are often noisier than the original signal.

This is hilarious. The same academics you hide behind when claiming they have "proved" that TA doesn't work have no trouble whatever believing in trends. There's even an academic definition of trend. So the questions for you, surf, are (1) Can you even find the academic definition of...