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It's been my theory that trading success rates remain nearly constant across all groups. 95% of all traders fail? Probably close to that - most of them don't have insider info. And 95% of all hedge funds should fail, eventually, if they are really trading/arbing these [nearly] random...

Don't you mean $4.5 Million? You didn't forget your taxes, did you? Gotta help Obama and your state and local govs keep you safe. And keep those markets working...

Yeah I feel like buying here. But I just can't... Too close to the end of the year and I've done too well to blow it now! :cool:

Just think of what can go wrong, not what can go right. Yeah, we all acknowledge you will win 70-80% or more of those trades (if done far OTM). But when you lose, it can easily be 5 - 20 times (or more) of what you made the previous month. Lots of supposedly savvy hedge funds and very...

Pfun Pfinish to the Miami-Jets game. Last play with 0:0 on the clock and Jets are lateraling all over the place. They couldn't break anything loose, but it was cool to watch.

At a Wisconsin titty bar: <img src="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2233907"/>

Yeah, it's funny (and sad) how Cramer has turned 180 and where he used to rail against any suggestion that hedge funds, naked shorting or not, were doing something wrong, to his current posture as "one of the good guys" fighting against the evil for the little guy. Trying to "get those...

This is written in wealth-script (Pascal-like), but should be easy to convert to C or put in Excel. This comes from McMillan's Option's as a Strategic Investment. 3rd edition, p-463. function LogVol(xdays, currentBar: integer):float; begin //This function calculates the log-normal...

Must be > $100K

I think your data or your script is messed up in a way that gives you favorable results. Here a few examples. I'll check it against IB data too, later. 9/18 You buy SSO at 2:00 for 50.36. That's within range, but it is sold on 9/19 at 11:15 for 56.80. 56.80 is the OPEN of the bar at 11:00...

I think I see a problem here. Looks like you are closing the trades on the same bar as the entry: <hr> *****ENTRIES ON BAR + 1****** if not (lastpositionactive) and (crossovervalue(bar,HersheyStochK,50) ) and (@#Volume[bar-1]>20000) then begin { if (@MACDH[bar]>0) then...

You're kidding, right? How the hell do you think I'm using Esignal? Yeah, with ascii files. I don't need a file. I don't want to test with it. I can just look at a few days and see if it is the same. Just post like I did: Date, Time, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume. Make sure the days...

As a legacy user from back in the version 2 days I was allowed to upgrade. First to 3, now to 4.0. I DON'T HAVE TO USE FIDO! Sorry for yelling, but geez... As mando said data is data. It does not matter where it comes from, except maybe splits and divs are handled differently. For these...

I don't use Fido. ! have been using Wealth-Lab for 7 years. Way before the Fido buyout.. Unlike you, I am not a newbie at this. You are hiding something. I don't know why and I don't care. Your test results are bogus. They will not verify. You will not show the data you are using. This...

There certainly could be data differences. But using an untradable index isn't getting us anywhere. There is volume in our SPX data, but what is it? Is it option contracts, or just the total volume from all SP500 stocks? I could find out, but it really doesn't matter. If you care to...

I'm using WL version 4. But I am using Esignal data. Anybody else out there with WL duplicate BW's results?

Yes, I'm skeptical too. Here is my last stab at this, with settings as BW has indicated: -Script is the last one posted. Copied exactly. -Commissions are set to $3 a trade. No slippage. -Account start $147K Each trade 10% of Equity. -SPX 15 minute bars, East Coast time. SPX only...

That data is RTH. Should be exactly the same as Fido RTH, just shifted for West Coast. If you are telling me I need to have AH data in there too, then that's okay. But I don't see that requirment in the script. But the fact remains, that you are getting very unrealistic results. You have...

There is one system there that always seems to win. I think it is called "Split-strike Conversion"...

The image of this is, frankly, disturbing. Suze Orman..Sylvia Wadha...omg...