Quote from Daal:
...meanwhile they refuse to give us specific rules that can be easily tested. Yet they will lecture us on how anyone can do it if they just follow their intructions. Its like they are afraid of something
Nobody in this thread have lecture you nor anyone else about how easy trading is.
In fact, you seem to have a bad habit of ignoring what others say. Simply, re-read the topic of this thread more carefully. It's about how difficult trading is for newbies. However, you're more than welcome to start a new thread via complaining about not getting rules to easily backtest.
Here's what guys like you seem to fail at understanding...profitable traders have access to more than just trade signals. They have market experience, discipline, good capitalization, good trading platform et cetera. Yeah, on any given trading day one of those things will have more impact than the others.
Therefore, a good researcher needs to test ALL the components to have a better understanding of why the individual components change their abilities when compared alone. That's what guys like you are too lazy to do because you want simple red light/green light rules to test and argue about. Not testing what truly makes someone profitable is not only bias research but unethical when trying to present the results as facts.
Thus, wake up...if trading was that simple via a few simple red light / green light rules we'll all be millinonaires and not complaining about the difficulties of trading the S&P 500 Emini ES futures in 2009.
Quote from wiesman02:
Seems to me like you already have your mind made up, so why are you worried about the success of discretionary traders and the ability to backtest their setups ?
I am assuming you are not a discretionary trader. Are you a fulltime, profitable trader ?
I agree...I don't think he's a discretionary trader via the fact that he has traverse his attacks from a prior thread about canned indicators and canned patterns into now as an attack on discretionary trading.
Regardless if he's profitable or not...I wonder what trading approach he uses but I won't hold my breadth that he'll answer these questions.
Mark
