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    Jack Hershey in trading vs Srinivasa Ramanujan in mathematics

    For those who search stuff. Begin your search in the correct place. Liz is aquiring copies of my books. she searches occasionally and if one comes up for sale, she buys it. The last one was 10X the original cost. So no one wants to buy them anyway. we got that out of the way...
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    Real Money Automated Trading Journal

    the MBT platform freezes if you make a mistake. All it tells you is that you made a mistake . You have to figure out what went wrong. I spent a weekend debugging my mind and wrote out how to not make mistakes. If you get to trading using a master account and linking in subordinate...
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    Plan for a Part Time Swing trader?

    Each evening you check your lists by viewing lists and stock charts. You will notice that a sub set have turned from short to long the day before. Judiciously you choose the stocks with the highest rank (a term for money velocity). You also look at what you own. A stock or two will...
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    Plan for a Part Time Swing trader?

    First, get your advice here. There are successful traders here. I come here once in a while to entertain myself, and I actually trade better afterwords. Second, swing trading is the perfect time frame for what you need. Try using daily time bars, nothing shorter than that, and get a broker...
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    What are the rules of your trading system?

    All bottoms are with the major trend or its not a bottom (you find this out later judging by your present level of expertise). If you are a trend trader then you know the difference between a retrace and a reversal.
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    What are the rules of your trading system?

    Quote from paddler: "But don't you think that no one is able to come out with a system set of events with three complete subsets of price, volume and trend end-effects?" I think anyone could and I also know that it is required to do. I posted elsewhere about a child who dumped three...
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    What are the rules of your trading system?

    Sorry I left a word out. Where you put day I meant to type hour. The am turns on price follow the volume signal by up to 1 1/2 hours. When you look at the color change on FRV column of the one pager, you see that DU is reached during that opening period of 1 1/2 hours. If you read...
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    Jack Hershey in trading vs Srinivasa Ramanujan in mathematics

    Thanks for the report on your progress. you put in a lot of work and I am glad you have a colleague to work with. Donna (Nodoji) has made a real contribution by demonstrating her learning process and by helping answer the Q's of others. She and BH have a cool connection going. Thanks...
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    Hedge funds famous for technical trading?

    Yes, Lo was very funny. Have you ever seen a turd in a punch bowl? Here is a PhD who does something. where did he get the list he used? He went down a riding trail with a scoop and a bucket. Then he came back to a computer and looked for all the turds he could find and made some...
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    Hedge funds famous for technical trading?

    The thread is on HF who are famous for technical trading. HF do use scintists who are under the dircetion of business people. The record is clear on HF performance; it happens in several ranges but none do very well. Back to the OT palaver. Most posters here are talking about what they...
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    Hedge funds famous for technical trading?

    No one cares if you gave a mistaken reference. We all agree with you that if a person is not scientific he cannot get any results. The market provides raw data points. Jem is explaining a seires of near misses he has followed. I had been trading about 25 years before one of his...
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    Hedge funds famous for technical trading?

    This is an incorrect planet. In markets, there are measures. Your reference is to an incorrect measure. To code and create automated complete market trading systems to take the full offer of the market, the system has to be able to measure correctly. Once an algorithm of the market's...
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    Hedge funds famous for technical trading?

    Three topics are included in this statement: statistics charts, and TA. Most people start out by looking at things. It takes about 40 hours to get all of the scope and bounding done to have a system of how the market works. From that point on there is a chioce made to find out...
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    Very Takeoff

    very cool. The silent intentional version is fun too. A glider is perfect tool and it is part of acrobatics. Fanning sideways and going straight down realy gets you to hull speed fast. Then you can do it again. I made three of theses my imprimatur before I went into my approach circuit...
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    Jack Hershey in trading vs Srinivasa Ramanujan in mathematics

    You are right on the mark for being you. Your replies and wants are not interesting to me at all. My brother was chief engineer at a Howard Hughes business. Terry treated multilaminate manufacturing machines as potato chips producers instead of plane surfaces. It really grew Hughs'...
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    What are the rules of your trading system?

    For making money I view money as a commodity, so the money is making the money in my view. I have my money take the full offer of the market. In stock trading I never hold more than 100,000 shares. My best net was 17 points. and I left 200K on the table. Let us all know how your answers...
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    What are the rules of your trading system?

    Trading stocks has the parts I mentioned. as you ease into putting your capital in the market, you wind up with owned stocks and a "Hot List" from the Unverse selected by a filter composed of seven criteria. If you have to go to work, you analyze each evening after RTH. In a few years, you...
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    What are the rules of your trading system?

    Thanks for your question. This is a cornerstone of trading. The basic idea, for me, in trading is the RDBMS invention. About the same time, in 1975, Mandelbrot updated the bio and minerology observations using definitive maths. My interest, from 1957, was to handle ambiguity and...
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    Trading vs Investing

    Most people have to work at a job to gather their initial capital if their parents aren't into using money to make money. Most parents probably invest in getting their kids to and through college and that could eat up some investments used to get the capital for educating from about 5 years...
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    What are the rules of your trading system?

    Thank you for your response. You are a professional and I am just an amateur. This system began long ago and I just posted the walk I do in today's terms. Long ago, I had to trade manually and in a time of tape reading. I did not have a ticker tape feed however. I depended upon the...
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