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  1. J

    How obsessed are you with the markets?

    Not at all, the more you are the less you make!
  2. J

    How long did it take you to become a **consistently** profitable trader?

    20 Years! 1996 to 2000 I scaled up 50k to 850k, in 2001 I had about 250k back, took it traded and wrote my dissertation phd about momentum trading, but I was not able to manage the psychological side of trading / investing any more. 2009 50k where left, took a pause until 2012. Meet the love of...
  3. J

    Where to get Systems

    Have a look here: https://www.portfolio123.com/app/r2g/models
  4. J

    Murray Ruggiero's new systems

    Keep up the good work, your product looks promising to me and I will try it out!
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    TradersStudio Blog

    just saw it on your site, Stock rotation and screening works... but I think the fundamental data is not (yet?) implemented! So stuff like that should be doable with TS: http://www.cxoadvisory.com/momentum-strategy/ Regards Andreas
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    TradersStudio Blog

    Looks promising, still, I only would need it if the following functionality is implemented: 1. Does TS have fundamental Data on Stocks? 2. Can Stocks be ranked based on criteria like volume, momentum, size, and fundamental data? 3. Can then the top 10 (or whatever number) of stocks...
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    Capital Available for Traders

    Great Idea! Any Chance to upload data from a Tradestation Account? Thank you Regards Andreas
  8. J

    Mid term plan...

    okay, okay, its not special. There is a difference tough, I do not want to do it by my own (tried that, does not work, I need people around me), so I am seeking an environment to do so...
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    Mid term plan...

    I already have a trading edge (mid term value / momentum system based on www.portfolio123.com), but I want to trade, invest fulltime because I like it more then my current job. That is the question, where do I start to switch full time into the financial world: Talk to - Fund Managers /...
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    Mid term plan...

    I do not have a glue when I want to retire, that is not my question...
  11. J

    Mid term plan...

    Hi, I am trading since 1996 part time. I was really successful until 2000 playing momentum plays discretionary. I crashed and decided to make a PHD in economics on stock system trading. I got my PHD, went back to my main job (IT) and was very successful at it (doing more then 300.000$ a...
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    Wal-Mart says 'auf wiedersehen' to Germany

    No Offense taken (I am German), the vodka joke is great! I hate a lot of things in germany, a lot of narrow thinking here, nevertheless I love germany for a lot of good reasons, hey it is my home and we had a great world cup ;-) I have been in the US for a longer time and really loved it...
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    Wal-Mart says 'auf wiedersehen' to Germany

    mujoh, you are right. Germans buy a lot of cheap stuff, and they do not really care about "slave workers". There is a new saying here "Geiz ist geil" which means "stingy is cool"... I really used to thing, we have the "greens" in germany and statistically the voters of them are the...
  14. J

    How much did you spend before you became a consistently successful trader?

    I spent about a 1000$ on Books.
  15. J

    How much did you spend before you became a consistently successful trader?

    In the market since 1996, profitable from day one up until march 2000. Then a 85% Drawdown, profitable again since 9 Months.
  16. J

    Creating the Emotional Filter

    look at executing at your system as if your boss tells you to do so, just look at it as if it would be a job. this only works, if you are a system trader!
  17. J

    who is profitable, with what strat?

    we found out that two strats work: - swing trading long into panic selling - trend following (I assume) on a whole portfolio on different futures. So who else makes money? Where are the stock momentum players? (works too!) Where are the guys who play fundamentals successfully?
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    who is profitable, with what strat?

    horribilicus, nice! What strategy plattform do you use (tradestation?), what broker?
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    who is profitable, with what strat?

    who is profitable, with what strat. I am profitable since 9 months (I know, not a long time!) using swing trading (only long). Hold for three days and sell it. Tell me if you are profitable and which strategy you are using. Thanks!
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    Backtesting Platform for Non Programmers

    no, you can just use daily data (open, close, high, low). Yes the backtesting feature has some problems. I still use it and if I find something that looks good do the calculation by hand (you can do this with "offset"). Then you click on "performance" and click through. offset = 1 Show...
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