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    What are the rules of your trading system?

    For you it is a rule. For others, you do not know what you are talking about. An agreement to disagree has been reached. Maybe you trade the way you talk; I know I do. Good luck in 2013.
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    What are the rules of your trading system?

    For the OP to use as a practice tool because Sharpe is 60 plus. A. Construct filter. Use 7 criteria: exchange location; float range; price range; institutional holdings; minimum liquidity; minimum EPS; and minimum RS. B. Color stock symbols to designate the sentiment. Use function...
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    definitely 'some' improvement

    Hi OP: To answer your Q's: 1. No, the market never changes. You can count on using the market to find out how it works. 2. I began with an approach and have used it for 55 years. Times have changed so more information is flowing now. Makes no difference. 3. A top method works...
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    If you got a big directional position before the weekend....

    Hi river: You will never join me in the Obsesive/Compulsive Disorder category. I'm relaxing for a while since by near term schedule has been blown. I've been taking my mind off things by dictating a 40 chapter book. Anyway, this am, I finally worked my up to the ER because on the...
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    With rules there is nothing to do.

    great post. This is the explanation of a person repeating 1 years experience 33 times. See if you can quess what % of the time he is in the market and what % of capital is in a given trade. Guess what % of the time most of his capital is idle. The annual ROI may be under 1000%.
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    Surf's Special Situation Journal

    For PVT type position trading of stocks, all three make more money given a common starting point. I checked with a Damon Runyun type re horses in the '55's by competing he made twice as much a I did. For poker. a great player beats other good players and wins more than PVT trading. In black...
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    Entering trades at wrong place, what do you do?

    Every timeframe shows three fractals. Let me say this in another way. Anyperson can observe (meaning look at) and see three different interlocking patterns in a ratio of 3 to 1. To state this in another way, think of a fern leaf or a snow flake, both common fractal examples used by people...
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    On volume analysis - need your help

    I agree with you and the results you got by doing what you did. If three variables price, volume and time are used, it is not possible to forecast with a timing based indicator what happens next. The Present is the only time available for having signals for happenings. The key...
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    If you got a big directional position before the weekend....

    My last call was for the open on 24DEC12. I am flat until 03JAN13. At that time, I will have all the IT segments mapped out for the year 2013. It was a Merry Xmas and Y'all have a Happy New Year.
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    On volume analysis - need your help

    As said here in this post, the first thng to learn is to post the interval you are speaking of. before that first thing to do, you have to differentiate between two things: A price reversal and a price retrace. Both happen on declining volume. One happens during the natural movements of a...
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    On volume analysis - need your help

    Volume as an indicator (of price) trending (continuing) has eleven measurable and unique elements in this subset. Ends of trends can be measured in volume by 35 separate and unique indicator elements. There is one additional proviso for taking the measure of volume as an indicator: at 8...
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    Range Controlled Geometry

    Thank you very much. I was expecting more frequently noted milestones. I sweep on Fridays so I guess I could always note before and after sweep. I only trade at a given market's capacity. I have been asking people since I would like to post a record here for a few quarters.
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    Genetic programming

    How a market is examined is determined by the market condition as rosy says. Market condition allows an ATS to go to and magnify the smallest of nuances that guide the ATS in taking the full offer of the market. Any modern platform roughs out the "state" in terms of a given fractal's trend...
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    Genetic programming

    Your Q's are typical of an outsider to SA. I cannot understand why and how you missed that variables have granularity. Rev. Thomas got it wrong. Keynes and Carnap got it correct. Were I you, I would read up on how computers got invented and then used. Reeves did not make the market (10...
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    Do You Have To Be Somewhat of a Sociopath To Trade?

    Nice post. You certainnly moved the thread forward. There is a lot of "professional" repair work done for those who can afford it. Two themes emerge. Yours for above the neck and the other for below the neck emotions. The comments centering on edge and emotional discipline were...
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    Range Controlled Geometry

    do you have an excel or report format you recommend to other traders? And could you post it so it can be copied?
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    What is the prop firm business model?

    You have outlined a hypothetical example. So far, you have placed 10k then another 10K is now in their hands. You have also spent a month in time. Right now, you have no return in your pocket and they have 19K in their pockets plus 1K you do not expect to litigate. You also have no legal...
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    Intentional Curve Fitting

    SORRY!! See red correction above. This is the point French Fry was making about my posts.
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    Surf's Special Situation Journal

    Sorry no lesson was implied. I just felt that if you were going to relate to surf, you might want to be on the wavelenghth, if any, that could "light a match" in the darkness. Were I to write a book for this forum's thread it would be titled "The Secret of Syntax". All logic based...
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    I want to start a career as Trader. Need advice

    EMG has posted 4733 times. His fifth post is quoted below. From the syntax I would say he is from the top of the class at U of Chi. EMG said: "I am filled at 1161.75. looking for 1pt profit target."
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