Quote from BJL:
Unfortunately, future human behavior (that is what economy is and what drives markets) can *NEVER* be proven...
Profitable traders using TA understand this point of view and that's why TA is just one chapter in the book called
Profitable Trading.
Therefore, to truly test the reliability of TA one must also test everything that TA is being used with.
If not, why bother with testing one variable called TA when many different variables are required to make everything useful.
Therefore, the results will *NEVER* represent what's actually occurring in real trading conditions.
Anybody not interested or minimizes actual trading results...
We need to take their commentary with a
grain of salt.
There's also a known
conflict of interest here.
He's a system designer that markets systems.
By the way, there's nothing wrong with designing and selling systems.
The conflict is that he's the last person someone should be revealing their profitable method too especially when his
requests are bundled with rudeness and insults.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/search.php?s=&action=finduser&userid=57744
Read his own words (the paper trail) in his posts at EliteTrader.com to see how rude and insulting he is.
Also, he doesn't just want TA results (some have shown such)...
He wants the actual codes or rules so that he can do his own testing.
In contrast, he is unwilling to show the common courtesy of coughing up personal info about himself as if a profitable method is not personal to the trader.
Basically he's asking for free access to your TA (he's holding out his hand) while unwilling to give anything in return.
He's completely underestimated the human behaviour of the markets along with underestimating how profitable TA traders will respond to his requests after he's been rude and insulting.
Don't give this guy anything that's personal to you unless he's willing to cough up some personal info too.
Mark