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    The real tragedy ... education

    A friend's son just graduated (non educational degree) and was selected to teach 3rd grade in a Newark school. Starting salary 60,000 a year. His students excell in everyway. His mother was so excited she went to sit in his classroom for a week. This teacher was culled during a nationwide...
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    The New Math: Quantitative hedge funds are pressing into new realms of science

    That was funny. The behavioral hypothesis does say call the tops and get out. Another chicken coup. Tthe NY Central Bank almost couldn't hire anyone on the 29 bill collateral calls that are going to have to be made. I like the built in fudging for "buying time" to sell the collateral to...
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    Investment Commentary-Do you agree?

    This is the firm who is valuing the 29 billion collateral to the Feds. This Firm has stated that the collateral cannot be liquidated short term to realize the recovery of the laon plus interest. A fox in a chicken coup (I know the spelling) is fun to watch. Like fluttrader thes guys...
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    The New Math: Quantitative hedge funds are pressing into new realms of science

    From page 3 of 6. "According to Grossman, that was part of the problem last summer. He is surprised that so few hedge funds protected themselves by purchasing options when they were cheap in late 2006 and early 2007." Spaceperson, you will find that the JUNE 2006 conclusion that I found to...
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    with $5K or less acct-BEST Future to Daytrade "1 contract" to get $500 per day is...

    It takes a plan, knowledge and skills to make money. Since a target is part of your plan. Use the citation to begin to understand the decision you have already made. Substitute 4 for the 2 in the reference because of your target size. Because of your knowledge and skills, use the ES...
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    what size can be day traded?

    Not really. Put me on ignore. Take your anger out on someone else when you are screwing up the hermit thing.
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    The New Math: Quantitative hedge funds are pressing into new realms of science

    I take it that you feel that they have just been taking a break for the last two years. Would you estimate when the break is going to be over (in time or trillions, your choice)? If outsourcing is going to come on the table, when and where?
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    what size can be day traded?

    It was done to forward the operation of ET. I didn't plan ahead well enough and I was counting a little on the archival value of ET being recognized. Another misjudgement that has me very worried at this point. I recognize that many people choose to have me as their adversary; it solves a...
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    what size can be day traded?

    Market capacity is an important consideration after you have been trading for a while. Keeping capital in the markets is important. Broad markets with a lot of instruments are different than, say, ES, which is a single instrument. T&S is your guide for every instrument. You may not use...
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    The New Math: Quantitative hedge funds are pressing into new realms of science

    The Quant era began around the mid 80's and ended around June, 2006. Naturally, it took until EOY 2007 to get together a plan to find out what went wrong and why no one had anything to substitute for what wrong. What is going to move the financial industry forward is a different sales tool...
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    Swing Trader Stops

    See attached.
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    How to avoid false signals using MACD?

    There are Journals on PVT and Journals on SCT in ET. the custom has been to make available, by reference, as much as is possible to anyone doing the work in the journals. Often, what has happened is a citation has been put up that begins the task of getting to a site and using a password, if...
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    How to avoid false signals using MACD?

    400,000 runs with PVT yielded 8.08 days as the hold period. As you suspected how you decided on the sample to test, gave you that equity curve for your backtest on that sample. Here is something you may want to consider. Take off your shelf the Meeting 5 Background paper for the IBD Meet UP...
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    How to avoid false signals using MACD?

    A person can sit down and pick his degree of sensitivity. Financial advisors do that with their clients. The client comes in to rebalance his portfolio occationally. This periodic adjusting is what Warren Buffett does as well. For me this is always what goes on in this setting. People...
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    Psychological Journal

    I attached a picture. Rather than seeing it as numbers, just look at it from a color point of view. Let the psychological color values that you acquired from your environment come into play. Step away from it or unfocus it so numbers aren't overriding the colors. WizeTrade and InvesTools...
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    How to avoid false signals using MACD?

    The MA's are EMA's just to head off the Q's you are going to think up. An MACD trendline is drawn to the right of the MACD fast line and it takes about three cycles of the D, C, xover sequence to go from the extreme MACD to the neutral of MACD and then three cycles more to get the the extreme...
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    How to avoid false signals using MACD?

    This is so cool. P and V rule.
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    How to avoid false signals using MACD?

    DT001 You speak of and ask about several things regarding the MACD as used on the ES. 1. signals 2. configuration 3. late entries and late exits 4. How to be a bit earlier. Six respondents confirm they do not use MACD: TD, AH, ICBD, LU, MA and two Wo's. They, collectively...
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    Why do I see "Trends" in Randomly Generated Data?

    Please do. Trading starts at 6:30 am local. One more would be fun. The pool hit 92 again today; we are going to reverse the solar.....LOL. I sign EKG's weekly....
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    Calling jack hershey, Earth to jack hershey

    I have arthritis. Typing for lazy people isn't my bag. I think that when I said I use the Stochs on Qcharts and after trader666 gave you the defaults, you were pretty much home free. When I say that %D can be done 6 ways as mentioned in Achelis on page 271, what I am saying is that I have...
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