Reverse engineering someone else's edge by analyzing open/close trades history?

[heispark]

Just curious.... Is it possible to reverse engineering someone else's edge by analyzing his open/close trades history? Asking this question to know whether posting trades history to public forums is a good idea or not.....

 

[nooby_mcnoob]

No one cares

 

[trend2009]

by looking at someone's open and close trade history can help gather the general ideas, but i do not think someone can completely reverse engineer the trading strategy. I know someone who is very consistent future emini day trader, posts his trading time stamp regularly on the web sometimes with his own analysis of the logic behind his trades. he has done this over a decade on a site with more than 10k members, still it looks like no one can trade in his way, even though he trades based on support and resistance, trend analysis, all classic trading method.

 

[ElectricSavant]

Yes

Just curious.... Is it possible to reverse engineering someone else's edge by analyzing his open/close trades history? Asking this question to know whether posting trades history to public forums is a good idea or not.....

 

[2rosy]

if there are infinite ways to create an "edge" then no

 

[zdreg]

Announce your edge in the Wall Street Journal No one will care.

 

[Nobert]

Announce your edge in the Wall Street Journal No one will care.

Especially, if for premium, the same person would offer a course, for even better edge.

 

[FriskyCat]

Announce your edge in the Wall Street Journal No one will care.

Richard Dennis

 

[Snuskpelle]

It is possible only if the system inputs are known.

 

[Option_Attack]

As others have said, yeah nobody cares. But if the system was vary simple i.e. RSI, Fib retracements, Bollinger, etc. you could probably get close to what they were doing. Add a few more variables? Then fuggettaboutdit.