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    BE DO HAVE and Jack Hershey vs Objective Reality

    Some quotes still on the table: "Hershey expresses his view of reality in his writings here and by reference to outside works." I'll be footnoting a lot of stuff from here on out. In that way the US voice can be heard on a wider and more significant basis. "2007 will also produce...
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    BE DO HAVE and Jack Hershey vs Objective Reality

    the OP says: "In this worldview, individuals may use the same exact rules in trading and achieve the exact same out come, execution problems notwithstanding. That is why proponents of this view want to see the results obtained by Hershey and often use backtesting." There is bad news. The...
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    BE DO HAVE and Jack Hershey vs Objective Reality

    In Hershey's worldview there is no objective reality, just the one created by the individual. In this worldview backtesting is useless because it was created by someone else and hence from their universe and has no bearing on one's own universe. This is a specific comment on something...
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    BE DO HAVE and Jack Hershey vs Objective Reality

    Why does the US versus THEM mentality persist between those who favorably view the ramblings of Jack Hershey and others less favorably impressed by him ? There may be some diferences of views in ET and they may be scattered about in each of the many forums of the organized spectrum of forums...
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    Commodity Correlation Table

    Check out John Carter and especially pick up his last presentation at Trader's Expo for C, W and S.
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    Indexing: Does Empirical Data Prove It's Superior To Active Trading Over Long Term?

    Then you will like Bogle's quote on the topic you raise. Bogle wrote in about this in "Bogle on Mutual Funds" Specifically look at one to the Caveat Empor entitled "The What if Protfolio" where he compares three of them. One is based upon three mutual fund results; another is based on the...
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    Trading stocks on unsual volumes

    Personally, I think the PVT is the best approach for everyone to start with. as soon as capital is doubled doing the EOD level after coming home from the job, then pulll the money and put it back into the family plan and family needs that were postponed by shifting capital to beginning trading...
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    A Public Apology To Jack Hershey

    Hi, I viewed your posts and I appreciate the apology. I am glad you will be passing forward your expereinces and knowledge to others. It will help a lot of people out for sure. I especially likes your description of what happened and by overlaying it on your usual display shows how...
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    Trading stocks on unsual volumes

    Yes, and there is a little reluctance on the owner's parts who are being nudged by majority showing up due to the extreme quiet as they (minority) consider leaving the position.
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    Trading stocks on unsual volumes

    Getting the PVT trading down and making the iterative refinements as infomation and technology has come along has been quite a process. I used an approach where I grouped the refinements according to three levels. Levels could define importance in several ways and they also define utilty...
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    Trading stocks on unsual volumes

    This is why God made gliders and thermals. Did you see me scurry over (white with 50 foot wingspan) Tiger today just before the rian hit. They thought it ws sudden but it was just the regular thermals moving across and the usual dust suppression we use out here.
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    Trading stocks on unsual volumes

    from '57 on in the last century.
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    Trading stocks on unsual volumes

    start on EOD with STOCH (5, 2, 3); the signal is up through 50% for long and down through 50% for short. If you move to rocket level (15% a day) use the 15 or 30 min chart.
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    Question about calculating Pivot Points for YM ??

    Pivot points deal with the vertical aspects of the market. Want one that deals with the horizontal aspects??
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    Why do folks reveal Profitable Strategies, are they NUTS?

    whitster, Your response to the poster was very thoughtful. I saved the poster's contribution in word because it was a complex and unique compilation or summation. I had never seen that combination of elements as a descriptor of markets and their trading. Retail doesn't affect markets...
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    Spydertrader's Jack Hershey Futures Trading Journal

    for sure....lol
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    Why do folks reveal Profitable Strategies, are they NUTS?

    Pr0.... We are all really laughing over here.... I presume that T doesn't know who you are and what you do for the futures journal........he may be one of your readers.... regards, Jack
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    Does literacy matter?

    My pleasure for sure.
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    Your going to hate this brutal post

    TFSE stands for tax free stock exchange. The technique is used to make money in a way that allows you to have the advantage of how the public can value what is going on. An example will help. By taking several closely held private corps (C corp start ups) into a publically traded corp...
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    Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of ET

    For sure I've never done an option. I've never been a pro either. What do you think it is?? How would you go about figuring that out?? What to you think is busting the little people's nuts?? Doubt...highly doubt.....what if you get it straight?? That's going to be a moment to...
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