Quote from DT-waw:
trendfollowers will wait forever until some decent trends will bring them money.
instead of making money every week, they wait and wait... and wait.
and when it seems they have finally make it.... the "trend" reverses so rapidly and immensly, they lose again.
only those who scalp, arb, play against the trend=crowd can make profits.
its silly to trade like a trend follower.
do you realize, that if trend following could work- simple moving averages would work?
what is the need for all those PhDs and nobel prize winners in hedge funds?
you gotta make your trading systems hyper sophisticated. 1500 lines of code minimum. high barriers to entry- the only way stay ahead of the game.