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Noted. Yet surf gets an advance copy to review: Isn't surf the main guy who scoffs at trend following? Strange bedfellows indeed.

The book isn't out yet and the author is RIGHT HERE! What's wrong with asking him what it's about? Nobody is asking for a free copy, just a synopsis. The author is the guy who brought up the new book in this thread afterall.

You seem to be blissfully unaware that the name trend following predates Covel's book by some years. He doesn't get to "own" it just because he used it as a book title.

The debate isn't about PA versus TA, it's about PA (one form of TA) versus indicators (another form of TA). As some have pointed out, it doesn't have to be an either-or thing but for others who consider themselves unforgivably burned by (certain) indicators, it always will be. For some, it...

Yeah, the PA guys are always putting down technical indicators. I'm a technical analyst but I'm the first to admit that most technical indicators are crap. They don't work well, if they ever did, so you have to have the mathematical savvy to move beyond the conventional stuff into things...

Cold fusion: 22+ years in the laboratory womb and still waiting to be born. LMAO!! Good thing those clowns weren't in charge of the Manhattan Project. :D :p

LOL! Yes, I fully understand what E = MC² has to do with ordinary nuclear reactions: fission, fusion, matter-antimatter collisions. I fail to see the "straight line" from E = MC² to "cold" fusion. You're like a cargo cultist. You think that if you build the fake airstrip and the fake...

No, it was proven true a century ago. They've been confirming Einstein's theory of gravity (aka General Relativity) with experimental evidence since the solar eclipse of May 1919. Wikipedia does a pretty good job of covering Relativity, both the special case (SR) and the general case (GR), at a...

Sounds like he had you in mind. Cold fusion is as dead as perpetual motion. I'll keep laughing and you'll keep believing. :D :p

Although mathematics is often called "the queen of sciences", you can't really compare it to hard sciences like physics and chemistry. Pure mathematicians pride themselves on making mathematical advances that have no immediately obvious real-world applications. And mathematics doesn't have...

Dude, you're all over the place. Schizophrenia?

Nuclear physics professors were so well "teached" that they weren't fooled by the cold fusion claims for even a millisecond. They knew it was nonsense from their knowledge of basic nuclear principles. It was a couple of mediocre chemistry professors who deluded themselves into thinking they'd...

Sorry, I'm so used to mitigating the noise automatically that I sometimes forget others don't do so. I use an adaptive MA which deals with both the lag problem (the fact that you think lag isn't a problem means you're not nearly as clever as you presume you are) and the noise problem...

I often wonder what all that hard-science talent has to do with finance myself. Anyway earlier you said that if trend following worked, then simple moving averages would work. The reason why SMAs don't always work is lag. Lag means late signals, which means late getting in and late getting...

Ah, I guess that makes it like the CANSLIM system: for stocks only. Thanks for the link.

News to me. Did they disclose the ranking method?

As asiaprop indicated, the key to a good rotational trading system is a good method of ranking the securities in your trading basket, so that you are trading only the top 3 or top 5 or whatever number suits you. The ranks are continually changing ("rotating"), so securities are continually...

Wrong again, and combining this with your frankly psychotic notion that death = losing, I can see why you are seen as stupid, at least here in ET. Just another arrogant fool to add to my ignore list. Good riddance.

This is sheer nonsense. You have completely misunderstood the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, but this is common among mysticophiles with only cursory knowledge of physical science. Suffice it to say, observers don't always affect the outcomes of their observations or experiments. This is...

Another bogus analogy. George W Bush didn't wake up and decide to run for President, he was recruited. His mother even wrote about it (or gave it up in an interview): "I was shocked [when the RNC said they wanted George to run for President]. I asked 'Are you sure you don't want Jeb to run...