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This is from the list of "The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2011" posted online by Ian Murphy on 1 February 2012. Most of it is on the mark and funny as hell. 49) Harold Camping Crimes: To hype his May 21st Judgment Day, the frog-voiced preaching mummy rented over 1,200 billboards, all...

The GOP is the party of theocrats, plutocrats and other reptiles. Why be surprised by all their contradictions and nonsense? No harm in pointing out their contradictions and nonsense however, so kudos. :)

I agree with you that Paul is a conservative. Maybe if he owned up to that fact and stopped disingenuously referring to himself as a "libertarian", more people on your side would take him seriously. :D

Don't blame "the American people" for what fuckwits on the right are doing. Nobody outside of the Repugnican bubble is voting for Santorum.

Which null hypothesis? There is infinitely more than one. You've answered your own question. "Because random methods rarely work at all" so why bother comparing them to a test strategy? Your benchmark should be the buy-and-hold results if you want to compare your strategy results to something.

Actually, dumbass, everything I posted was factual. I wasn't trying to provoke you because I thought you still had me on ignore. Oh well. Explaining this with as few big words as I can: if you put the LPF formula into a spreadsheet and run it against a set of linear data, you will see for...

Thanks for posting the LPF formula, jcl. :) It is incredibly low-lag, even for a cutoff period of 1000 bars. You can safely ignore intradaybill. He doesn't know what he's talking about when he says a faster EMA system will produce the same results. No way, no how.

According to your Zorro link, the "1000" is the cutoff period, not the cutoff frequency. Huge difference between period and frequency and the two should never be confused with each other. FWIW, using a LPF with a cutoff period of 1000 bars is practically like removing all of the tradable...

I use my own custom ama. I don't know how it compares to the JMA but I like it. However I found out that simply having a great smoother isn't enough for a great trading system. :( Granted, the pic you posted isn't totally realistic but it does point out that the HMA can overshoot, which...

I don't know the formula for the JMA but I'd bet it's more complicated than a modified HMA. For one thing, it's been around longer than the HMA IIRC. I personally would never use an overshooter as my smoother. Just my two cents.

Strongly disagree. There is no grand master plan (i.e., "curve") being fitted by evolution. We'd be descended from velociraptors rather than from monkeys if not for the black swan of a big asteroid slamming into this planet. Shit happens, especially random shit, and evolution adapts to it.

This definition of noise makes no sense to me. Like lucky lucille said, you need to give a concrete example.

Bingo. Defining the terms is always the right starting point for attacking any problem, but it's a step that is surprisingly often overlooked. If we can't state what trend is, then how the hell can anyone know how to measure it, or even state whether or not it's worth measuring...

RSX is just a very smooth version of RSI. So if you like RSI, you should love RSX and buy it. Me, I don't like RSI so I see no need to think about RSX, much less to buy it. First, ask what you want from an indicator, then look for those free indicators that come closest to achieving those...

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Hmmm. Given that the supposed purpose of most indicators is to indicate whether or not there is a trend, saying that they only work once you have somehow independently identified the trend immediately marks them as useless IMO. Aside from reading price action, an alternative is to find an...

+100 What I find hilarious about this right-wing revisionism and DNA nonsense about the "non-racist" Republicans is that while almost every dixiecrat in Congress voted against the Voting Rights Act, every single Southern Republican did exactly that. Facts are stubborn things. :D

+1 Nixon's Southern Strategy was and still is a grand success.

There are no professional craps players. There are gambling addicts who risk and invariably lose large amounts of their own money or money they begged, borrowed or stole. But the myth of people making a living by playing casino craps is right up there with the myth of the Loch Ness monster...

Obviously you aren't. Jim Crow proved that individual states can't be trusted to enforce human rights. Some will do the right thing, others will do anything but. We're a nation, not just a loose collection of independent states. OTOH I'm all for letting states secede if they want to, so...