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    win/loss over 70% - please help

    Try profit targets.
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    Rates on IB Notes

    Would you mind posting a link for this? I've seen them mentioned before and I've searched the site twice and haven't been able to find a word about them. Maybe I'm blind. Help would be appreciated. Thanks, Wayne
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    valuating nondividend stocks

    One of the mainstream approaches is to estimate all future cash flows and apply a discount factor to arrive at a current value. Estimating future cash flows is tricky to say the least and requires, to my mind, a fair amount of wild ass guessing. Using this approach, you would buy a...
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    valuating nondividend stocks

    It's been argued that a company that never pays a dividend IS worth $0. Take the example of a company that has huge profits, dominates their market, and continues to accumulate cash reserves for decades. Eventually the company goes bankrupt without ever paying dividends. Their remaining...
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    IntraDay Historical Data Provider

    I agree with Bob. I spent a LOT of time looking for intraday data for Amibroker and concluded that the best solution was QCharts and QCollector. I didn't want to get involved with another platform either but it was pretty painless. QCollector support is very good about responding to...
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    Trouble sleeping :(

    BT, That happens to me sometimes, too. My fiancee wakes up around 3:00 or 4:00 every night then tosses and turns for a couple of hours, worrying about things. I really think meditation would help her disconnect from her anxious thinking, but I can't get her to try it. A lot of people just...
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    Trouble sleeping :(

    Kastro, There are countless varieties of meditation but here's a link to a basic meditation where you focus on your breath. This is the type I use most of the time. http://www.wildmind.org/meditation/mindfulness/index.html Wayne
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    Trouble sleeping :(

    Here are some suggestions you might want to try. I hope they help. For me, t's very important to have a wind-down period right before bed. When I go from the computer straight to bed I lie there wide awake with my mind racing. I take 15-30 minutes to relax and calm down. A hot bath or...
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    Cheapest way to get intraday data?

    You're right, there is a trial. Didn't see that so I went ahead and bought it and am happy with it.
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    Cheapest way to get intraday data?

    I agree: QCharts and QCollector. I spent a lot of time looking at the options recently and that's what I ended up going with. Not the best if you have deep pockets and demand impeccable data integrity, but a cost effective solution (I think). You could build a decent database using the...
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    'Top Stop Exit' in Traderclub.com's forum ?

    Didn't save the link. Don't think it was anything that would help you. You can do another google search for "top stop". I guess Google site search doesn't always work.
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    'Top Stop Exit' in Traderclub.com's forum ?

    I did a google search at the Trader Forum site for "top stop" and also "top" and "stop". I didn't find anything that looked like it was what you're looking for. Unless there's a hole in the google search, it looks like there's no such thing on the Trader Club Forum. I also did a general...
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    Calculating the defintion of a "long" body

    I haven't done that, but sure, you could vary the period based on any factor you choose. Before I do something like that, though, I like to have a rationale for why it might work. I like to think that helps guard against curve fitting. What do you see as the possible link between volume and...
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    Calculating the defintion of a "long" body

    I don't do automatic trading but I've coded candlesticks for backtesting. For defining a long body, it doesn't make sense to me to use an absolute value because you're ignoring differing volatilities. A "long" candle for one stock may be a relatively "short" candle for another stock. I...
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    who has the best data?????!!!! X vs. Y

    If you read the examples I gave it would be pretty obvious that they had absolutely nothing to do with whether I did or did not select adjusted prices. I was trying to save you from wasting time using Yahoo data but if you're more concerned with tiny differences than huge errors, well then good...
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    who has the best data?????!!!! X vs. Y

    I had a horrible experience trying to backtest with Yahoo data. I spent many hours trying to root out bad quotes. Stocks would open at $3.00 and close and $43,567. These were often quotes from years ago so obviously there is no effort made to correct their data base. Another frequent...
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    Any other good forum

    http://www.purebytes.com/ http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Trading_Systems/messages http://www.marketocracy.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Portfolio.woa/ps/ForumOverviewPage http://www.traderclub.com/discus/board.html http://www.talkstox.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=321...
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    newbie systems development questions

    MarketDog, Excellent post. Could you elaborate on: "Ahhhh, there's the problem. When you combine all those high winning edge systems together and trade them as one...your total system winning edge drops down and you are almost right back where you started." Is there a statistical...
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    S/R

    Sulong, That was my understanding of the definition too. Here's a quote from Tony Crabel: "NR7 - a day with a daily range narrower than the previous six days' daily ranges compared individually." A quick Google search showed that this is the way it's commonly used.
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    Hard Drive bargin

    I copied the style number from the Office Max ad and searched for it on the Western Digital site. Looks like an internal. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/current/retailkits/wd1600jbrtl.asp
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