Reverse engineering someone else's edge by analyzing open/close trades history?
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When I get real bored, for fun I will do it, too many create complicated when they should develop easier methods. Having more than one oscillator to confirm in long run seldom helps. Only can do so many ways to skin a cat or deer. It is easier to do with exact times than arrows on a chart.
And those who do automation or HFTs never post such things.
Most likely not and depends on the structure of the methodology.
Unless it’s a simplistic and singular strategy, attempts at rev-eng might at the most yield ideas to explore vs exposing the full method.
Since many trader’s orientation to the market is based in fear and greed, any public posts would reasonably have some type of obscurification included.
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Many posters and lurkers on these journals are always looking for a free lunch so don't kid yourself. It takes creativity, out of the box thinking and lots of hours of hard work to come up with good ideas. If a person has enough know how, than yes you can easily do it, i know i can. But for me, I've explored 1000's of combinations, and with my present knowledge base, it's just not worth my time to try someones else's crap. Systems are personality based and that's what makes systems unique.
Yes for sure but he got some from news paper articles, he would fade the company that went public long or short, so if Heinold commodities was long beans, he'd try to fry them.
That's a very good point.
A parallel - I can technically reverse engineer other people's code by looking at the machine code in a disassembler, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily fun or even a useful way of spending my time. Writing my own shit is 50x faster or even more when there are no debug symbols.
I could trade a certain simple way, but for you to reverse engineer would be most difficult, because you haven't the experience to know the method.
For example, you would most likely think I'm using an indicator which you are familiar with, but I'm not using an indicator, so how are you going to work that out?
Besides, buy and sell signals are only a small part, stock selection is another part, if you don't know my stocks selection, that's another issue to contend with.
For example, you would most likely think I'm using an indicator which you are familiar with, but I'm not using an indicator, so how are you going to work that out?
Besides, buy and sell signals are only a small part, stock selection is another part, if you don't know my stocks selection, that's another issue to contend with.