Paper Trading to find a system

Thanks everyone for the information! I have built a decent reading list and have plenty to keep me busy learning and practicing for a while. Happy trading to you all, and maybe you'll see my journal fire up one day not too far away.
 
j_hall82.
I am also reading journal you posted. One thing I do with Turtrades is look at past stock picks from journal to verify and see what geez was looking for to make his picks.
To get historical charts in Turtrades . Do
Configure->Date->End now select historical date you want the chart.
Also uncheck Random Sym. check box so you can type in your own symbol.
 
Quote from intradaybill:

You are doing backtesting the way it was done 30 years ago. You have to first find out what others are doing because you are essentially competing with them in exploiting possible edges.

A couple of years of backtesting is not even remotely enough. For daily data the backtest must span more than ten years. For intraday data you should use tens of thousands of bars.

Also, keep in mind that any conceivable combination of indicators has been already exploited by NNs and data mining programs. There are programs that will generate handreds of profitable systems, historically of course, in a few hours or days, by mining data. Many traders use them and this speeds up development time exponentially.

Good luck.
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Any idea where to get hold of (some of) the results.?
After all mining data is a bit more complicated than dropping an email. :-)

Thank you.
 
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