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When you don't stick to the plan and think that you are a master of the universe, for better or worse. It is when you don't like or like too much the results of the day trade. Usually it is a sign either someone thinking they are a "pro" when they are not, or a novice who overrules the day...

NEW LAPTOP for me! I am upgrading my MSI GT 75 (circa 2017) 7th gen Intel i7. New machine is an MSI GE 76 raider with a an i9 HK, 32 gb DDR5, 4Tb Samsung 980 Pro SSD (PCI4x). (all the extra SSD space is for non trading stuff). It is a fast machine for doing development-back testing. I'll...

Charity begins at home. Mentor yourself. Futures trading is serious business. If you are not serious, then you are just another bit of chum. If you are not measuring your trades: plan, following the plan, and their success rate, then you are not even in the stadium, let alone in the game...

Also keep in mind that you should use both slots not one. It is the D in DDR. So two 8Gb, or two 16Gb are the choices. Personally I would go 16gb x 2, 2x 32 is for special cases. (You can do 3 slots and still utilize DDR, I believe, but all must be same size-type). Browsers keep on using...

Although one eliminates noise by using the 1 hour bars, one also eliminates relevant data. For instance if something happens to change your ultimate P/L (significantly over a significant number of trades) within a 1 hour bar, when does that happen? How does that happen? That is the data you...

Things that would be good: 12 gen i5 for more cores, but plenty of speed. (12 gen is major upgrade from 7-11 gen) A two smaller, but newer SSD drives for RAID "mirror" (Backups). A Killer Network card for automatic roll over from wired LAN to Cell wireless Consolidate your monitors from 6 to 3...

Roll-o-Tape aka Wykoff is good but dated. Dated in that it was based on how people traded back then. But understand what the "take with a grain of salt" comment really means. IMO it means taking the concepts and recasting them into how people trade today. People ate food back then, and...

Paper has it uses, but it also has its abuses. Experience teaches you this.

Please take this as positively as possible. There is the saying: "Boring people are bored". There are many ways to take this, of course. Some people can do anything and be engaged and never bored. Others can do many things and be bored. I once spent a vacation with a couple in Tasmania...

Of course it is. The question you should be asking is why was this approach not rejected out of hand by yourself? It is as if you are playing around with elementary stuff, and not doing the things that will get you beyond it. In order to get somewhere you will need to have a test...

There is the actual Open, with orders stacked up. Then there is the Open first 3 minutes, with a lot of volume and noise. Then there is the actual opening move, usually with a preamble. Also there is often reports 30 minutes after the open. Lastly a fair number of bots go off during this time...

Penny stocks are a different world. Don't bother unless you want to specialize in them. Find a particular area to focus on, stocks, options, futures, forex, etc. Then spend time developing a plan that is, for starts, 25% risk management, 25% trade management, 25% setup signal management, 25%...

This pretty much describes what is happening. Parameters have "meaning". What the meaning is depends upon the model. I just increased the field of vision and focus such that I hit some of the same limits as before, which indicates the system has integrity. I.e. the meta parameters are...

Very much appreciate the thoughts. Hence the posting. The methods are probably beyond 95% most peoples understanding. I spent 4 years studying how to create-define formal languages for Strong AI. But of course that did not directly work out so well.:(

Probably used the wrong word DS. Essentially I am providing 250 data points from a chart. From that a set of "Turing Tests" are applied to determine how to look at the data. It is not a "Here is the data, go find it again". The tests are not really "grind it out" type tests. So really the...

Hi All, Wondering about what people think about a DS approach to automation WRT back test fitting. System background: Using ES System can be shown a "pattern" on an intraday chart, out of back test sample range. Pattern is then processed into the "find it" sub system When it is back tested...

Maybe this would get Volpri's approval. ;) How Volume happens, matters. Likewise how prices are reached matters. It is in the details. Hence since you need to see the details in price movement, you can also discern the volume details from that same "look see" process. Add to that you...

Soylent Green was released in 1973 and in the movie it is 2022. Cause of all the problems? Green House Gasses.

It is pretty easy to see where stops will accumulate. A short term barrier will develop and people put stops just outside that barrier. Suppose a "low" is 100" if you can use say 200 contracts to move past that barrier (overwhelm the book very short term) and hit the stops at 99-97, and...

You fear not being able to sustain your wins. Not really different from fearing a negative day P/L. You focus and fear is on the right metric but wrong time frame. Watch the P/L by contract. See what you do in the DEC 21 contract, then compare it March 22 contract. Stop the daily or...