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Thanks for the replies. I'm not doing this currently, and based on the replies, I think the answer for me is that I would discuss with my broker before doing so, just to be as absolutely above-board as possible. And probably have a written agreement as well. I guess an alternative would be to...

That seems a little... insane. But perhaps you misunderstood the hypothetical. Absolutely no money would be changing hands and absolutely nothing nefarious or underhanded would be going on. The proposed scenario is not a cover for anything else.

Suppose a family member says: "Here's my login info, make some trades in my personal brokerage account for me. Purely as a favor with absolutely no compensation at all and no liability." Let's immediately stipulate at the outset that it is very likely not WISE to do so for any number of...

I'm glad you commented since I am interested in why the Hispanic vote went for Obama. And since you seem to admire rationality, maybe I can learn a few things. If you care to answer: 1) Immigration was the #1 issue for the Hispanic vote, correct? Not that there weren't important secondary...

That is truly excellent, congratulations on your ongoing success. And you seem to be be pursuing it with proper caution as well. I believe that one of the hallmarks of a robust system is that it can trade in markets other than the one it was developed in. The other even more important...

Agreed. Apropo to trading, I think of the practical implementations of socialism and capitalism as kind of like candle charts, the distribution of wealth in a society at any point in time being a single candle. For practical implemenation of capitalism, you have candles that trend upward...

Interesting. My working assumption is that any positive stats pulled out of the market are non-stationary. For your case, this belief would cause me to try adapt or optimize the system parameters (including filters) over some moving time window. And 6 weeks wouldn't seem an unreasonable...

No live trading results to compare, but I am about to start sim trading a new system that does the about the same as your description. It filtered 53% of the potential trades in the last out-of-sample forward walk that I tried. Whether or not I would care about losing lots of trades to a...

Awesome, don't neglect to come back and let us know when the model says sell!

Hypo! I mean Argent, I am vaguely disappointed: you clearly understand the characteristics of a guru, yet are unwilling to execute (in every sense). Very unusual. I feel that I am already somewhat silverotic, in that, if I happen to be holding a silv position and it goes up, I get very...

Wait, I'm gullible! I may wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Please dish on your commodimetric approach. (As I'm sure you know as a prospective guru, coming up with a bastardized unique label like that for your system is half the battle and I found myself already reaching for my credit...

Methinks it is clear that MrCharts == Hypo, who is one of the smartest posters I have ever read (and most whimsical) (and most entertaining). In this incarnation, he has chosen the role of Guru, and I think succeeded *too* well, ending up having to actually deliver on the role... Luckily, he...

Couldn't agree more, GermanTrader. From my admittedly ignorant perspective, it seems clear. Why should banks get to practice fractional lending and fractional reserves and I can't? I would certainly like the ability to "lend" my money out to collect interest at 16X my actual deposit amount...