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    ElectricSavant

    The poor guy doesn't appear to know the difference between plurals and possessives: Bright Idea's ... Turning the Light's on Over the years I've met a lot of engineers from Hong Kong who have the same difficulty, perhaps ES learned English in HK.
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    Mark Boucher's Science of Trading

    I saw a copy on alibris for $175 but didn't want to spend that kind of money on a flyer.
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    Series 7 Exam Material - Practice Tests

    Securities Research Corp's books and CD's helped me a great deal.
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    Don't shorter term strategies have lower drawdowns?

    "Don't shorter term strategies have lower drawdowns?" Seems like a perfect hypothesis to be studied via backtesting. Why ask random strangers for their opinions when you can get the computerized backtester to hand you facts and data?
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    Why do I see "Trends" in Randomly Generated Data?

    Don't forget the fact that the government of South Africa shut down the platinum mines, leading to a shortage of supply, leading to an imbalance of supply vs. demand. http://tinyurl.com/yrwmd8 http://tinyurl.com/25s96y
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    A good trading system

    It's commercial software. The company who sold it to me (and would be happy to sell it to you) is named at the top of the first page and the bottom of the last page. Look for "LLC" (Limited Liability Company), it goes on the end of company names. Once you type their name into Google, it will...
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    A good trading system

    In my opinion, "winkb" is a good trading system. Its performance was detailed in this post: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1191992&highlight=winkb#post1191992 However, Microsoft has changed its browser so it no longer reads old ".mht" format files correctly. You can...
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    CFTC control of trader competitions

    Your letter will not have much influence because your English grammar is very bad. If your concern about this issue is genuine, and if you hope to be taken seriously by the CFTC, hire someone whose English is excellent and pay her to correct your errors. She could begin withPlurals...
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    Jim Sloman Ocean Plus

    OceanIndex(N) is just the natural log of (Rate_Of_Change(N)), divided by sqrt(N). See picture:
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    What method gives best chance for profit?

    If "best chance of success" means "largest probability of winning trades", just make sure your stop loss is 10 times farther away than your profit target. Presto, 85% winners. I also think you would enjoy reading the poetry of Robert Service, for example...
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    POLL: If not profitable yourself, what would you pay monthly for a profitable system

    I would pay One-And-Ten. A hedge fund or a CTA would charge me Two-And-Twenty. Some of that is a fee for access to their super miraculous wizardly strategies for trading, and some of it pays for the grunt work of data collection, system operation, order execution, back office accounting, and...
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    "Scaling out" is inferior behavior

    Hook N, the comparison you're trying to make is just plain retarded. (90 futures symbols, 418 months, 1300 trades) vs. (1 stock symbol, 202 months, 11 trades) Simply ridiculous.
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    Did Niederhoffer Lie To Baron?

    Here's something pretty funny. Do a google advanced search for the phrase "fixed systems" on the ET website. You'll find two posts that match, one from marketsurfer who quotes Victor Niederhoffer as follows: I have an aversion to all fixed systems and purportedly easy ways of making money in...
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    How much longer should I wait?

    To each his own; I find your ($totalprofits / $totalcommissions) ratio completely unacceptable. I think it indicates your trading advantage, your "edge", is unacceptably small. But that's just my opinion. I wouldn't trade your method and I wouldn't hire you to trade it for me. On the other...
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    M.A. crossovers

    That's simply not true. If you use MA1 = 1/2 cycle moving average, MA2 = full cycle moving average, MA3 = 1.5 cycle moving average, you will be 180 degrees out of phase with the market. Buying every top and selling every bottom. A spreadsheet is attached. Price is cyclic with period = 30...
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    Breakout Strategy (help...ideas??)

    Do you believe that one strategy will work well when trading stock options, stocks, futures options, futures, and forex? If you don't, then perhaps you may want to indicate whether you are looking for ideas on how to construct a stock option strategy, or a stock strategy, or a futures option...
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    How to sell your system

    Mathemagician already asked it, in the second post of this thread. Didn't you read it?
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    Thorpe 2% rule for position sizing

    Let's work another example. You'll still have a $100K account and you'll still risk 2% of the account on one trade, buying a $100 stock. However, in this example you decide at a stock price of $99 (rather than $95) you were wrong and need to be stopped out. Taking the $2000 risk and dividing...
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    How to use properly the NxATR stop Loss

    Yes here are six people who could program a piece of SW testing your criteria: http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Investing/Software/EasyLanguage/ These people are professional programmers and they charge money for their services. You will need to decide how much money you are prepared to pay for...
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    Brain Teaser

    If you're tempted to apply Monte Carlo (MC) solution methods, beware that this problem converges relatively slowly. It's a perfectly valid way to get an answer, of course; just be sure you turn the crank a sufficient number of times. The closed-form solution provides greater accuracy in less...
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