Quote from dtrader98:
Of course you can. If you ever take the time to empirically study simple probabilities, you would realize the market is a bent coin (from a binary perspective). Predict heads every day and you will beat a fair coin.
Big problem that no one seems to notice is that markets returns are not binary to begin with. Therefore, you are starting out with a poor analogy to begin with.
Which would you prefer?
99 winning Coin tosses and one loss that netted 1 dollar?
or
99 losing coin tosses and one win that netted 10 dollars?
Before you waste any more time on the thread concept, I suggest you all think a bit about this perplexity, because it will hopefully give you a bit of enlightenment.
This is the nut to crack.
Empircal is the inductive route and the binary principle is incompatible with empiricism. Two ideas come ito a space and clash.
Tradezones says lets do more empiricism using standard measures and see who is best or wrong. He is up to 3 ,000 such tests. So far about 1% pass his test. He has proven top my satisfaction, statistically speaking, that empiricism doesn't work.
By using deduction and a binary principled system (PVT), the common Sharpe ratio exceeds 60 (as determined by Worden Bros staff using their logic Blox on years of subprime data.) The Sharpe ratio of 60 is at one end of Traderzone's distribution.
Any stat test will show a very strong corrolation of sentiment and the binary principle. Since it does, maybe sentiment is a possibility for successful trading. Joe Ross feels that there is no sentiment 85 percent of the time. The football argument is out of bounds for Joe Ross. The reason Joe screws this up is because he feels as does the OP that only two games are being played.
The 8 year old uses three games meaning the child trades on the fastest observable fractal and has one fractal slower and one fractal faster for guidance. The slower one shows the sentiment binary context and the faster shows the child how to carve the volume trough turns.
Soon the 8 year old game will drop coin flipping and begin to use three adjacent fractals to take all the profit segments on the middle fractal, meaning 20 to 40 profit segments a day. 40 ticks of profit will be given up in this process. We will start more slowly to get in the groove (12 to 15 trades a day).
Deduction does away with intuition, guessing the future, setting stops and setting targets. The reason why is that 8 year olds don't do this stuff if it is not needed. So the proofs for each of these four things not being needed will be done. Giving proofs of each item is how a deductive system is grown.
As of now, everyone can carryover from Friday to the open the BBT, tape, traverse and Channel status. This provides four sentiment levels all expressed deductively and with 100% certainty and in a binary manner regardless of Joe Ross and those that think inductively.
What this means is that the 8 year old child knows the next four trades she/he will do to complete the briefest pattern of P, V movement observable. Knowing the next four trades means all that is left is timing them to extract the whole segment of profits. The child will replace the flipping and just do two types of timing instead of one type of timing.
Timing means doing an exit followed immediately by an entry on the opposite side. This is a reversal trade.
For those that wish to look at the way it works, consult the four calls I made in advance before an open and consult the print of an open that shows the timing of such typical calls. Look at the volume annotations (troughs and the new volume tool of the 8 year old (peaks)) to see how the timing works down to the one tick level charts posted previously.
I still have to post the step by step instructions for doing the exits and entries. So far it involves three steps in sequence and only using troughs. When risk (coin flipping) is eliminated, just rules are used. In trading one of the goals is risk elimination. The tool for risk elimination is knowing the sentiment in the present. Sentiment is determined deductively using nested fractals. This is counterintuitive to CW types of trading.
I will do this as soon as the OP eliminates coin flipping or random data sets from his initial scheme.