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Indicators can be used to help measure a pull back in a trend or other price characteristics. I find that indicators can be useful filters. I agree though that trying to single out an indicator that has predictive qualities is the wrong approach. Better to start out with a strategy...

Yeah...I put this article in the "Obama is getting the FEMA camps ready for the coming marshal law" category.

@Overnight I am sure you have heard the phrase "Don't quit your day job" :) Not everyone is ready to give up the guaranteed stacks of money arriving in our bank account each month. As for myself, my day gig is writing software for a software company. Hope to have my own company soon.

IMO, the quote is mostly bullshit and should be disregarded. Sure, there are certain types of people that self sabotage because of some psychological issue so that by constantly losing at trading they are in a sense getting what they "want". But as you pointed out, the vast majority prefer to...

Would Steve Bannon be included in that list six months ago? :) I trust no one in DC.

Welcome to the board @Junky ! One thing to consider is do you want to trade intraday vs. end of day. Trading intraday has it's advantages with more leverage and potentially more opportunities but it comes with a huge opportunity cost in that you typically need to be in front of the screen...

For early withdraw, you have to pay a 10% penalty AND pay income taxes on either your short or long term gains. No free lunch there.

Have you taken a look at QuantConnect Lean? It is open source: https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean https://www.quantconnect.com/blog/options-futures-on-quantconnect/ I have not used it but I know of some other users on this site who are.

Booooo. Hisssssss. How is the OP supposed to "relax" with a post like that. :)

If you look closely at the video you will notice a couple of guys just standing there, unemotional. The others were smart knowing full well that failure to show proper grieving emotions would likely result in a bullet in the head or 20 years hard labor.

Yes. I built my own C# SDK which uses supervised machine learning techniques. Its strength is it can test thousands of feature combinations very quickly where a feature (i.e. Close related to LowerBollingerBand) can be dynamic or static. A dynamic feature will be calculated for each point in...

What capital amount do have access to for making 2k per week?

Dumb money :)

I don't necessarily agree. Most software work is maintaining existing code. The ability to diagnose issues and fix them, especially in code that sucks and everyone knows involved with the code sucks is a valuable skill. A few years back I had to maintain and internal company application...

Or orange juice :)

This something I have thought about but have not implemented. Basically you have a system that is highly leveraged that has the potential to be very lucrative when it is in line with the market regime. When it is not there is a high likely hood that you will lose a significant amount of...

I have the same approach in that some strategies are used for particular market regimes. The trick is to have a relevant market regime filter to know when to use a particular strategy. I do strongly encourage you to get more data to test with. Testing with only two years of data which occurs...

This is a very interesting approach. How far did you go back in time did go for your back-test? Would be interested to know how your strategy performed during the market meltdown of 2008/2009.

I'll be at Lake Tahoe in March for skiing with the family. I wonder how much the nightly rental for the $75 million house is? :)

Along the lines of what tommcginnis said, it might be wise to mostly do some listening and really understand what their problems are and what they need help with. Based on that, perhaps a follow up meeting with a well thought out proposal with data to back it up. Maybe that meeting has already...