Trendfollowers: When oh when are we going to start making some $$$?

Quote from DT-waw:

You see, almost all people do not even get such a basic topic like moving averages. The problem with them is NOT the lag!!!

When there is a strong trend, they capture a great profits with lag or without. The hardest thing is a choppy market when MAs could generate 15 losing trades in a row.

I really really feel comfortable trading the most simple concepts out there :) Other traders (my competition) are mentally unable to grasp the most obvious stuff.
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Sorry, I'm so used to mitigating the noise automatically that I sometimes forget others don't do so. I use an adaptive MA which deals with both the lag problem (the fact that you think lag isn't a problem means you're not nearly as clever as you presume you are) and the noise problem simultaneously. My trend following system makes noise its bitch. Too bad you are mentally unable to grasp this stuff. :)
 
Quote from DT-waw:

In universities there is very little common sense.
Worse- the thinking there reminds dark ages. Take cold fusion for example. Professors will deny it, because its in opposition to whats been teached for decades.
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Nuclear physics professors were so well "teached" that they weren't fooled by the cold fusion claims for even a millisecond. They knew it was nonsense from their knowledge of basic nuclear principles. It was a couple of mediocre chemistry professors who deluded themselves into thinking they'd found the Holy Grail of energy production.
 
Quote from DT-waw:

only those who scalp, arb, play against the trend=crowd can make profits.

its silly to trade like a trend follower.
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Quote from DT-waw:

trend following makes the biggest money with the lowest risk.
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Dude, you're all over the place. Schizophrenia?
 
Can you find out which post was sarcasm and which was serious?
I guess not.

and of course- every loser dreams of a system :
1.without lag
2.making money on the noise or choppy conditions
3.trading each and every trend

the ultimate reason why trend following is not popular is FEAR.
only 1% of traders do not fear series of losing trades.
the rest will always try to catch a top or bottom or write options. god bless!
 
Quote from Dalmation:

Whatever happened to spider?
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He and all the other traders of that era found a new home over at TL. The mods there are much tighter so to many of them the signal to noise ratio is better. But they are over there going strong with futures.
 
Quote from kut2k2:

Nuclear physics professors were so well "teached" that they weren't fooled by the cold fusion claims for even a millisecond. They knew it was nonsense from their knowledge of basic nuclear principles. It was a couple of mediocre chemistry professors who deluded themselves into thinking they'd found the Holy Grail of energy production.
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I don't know about the cold fusion debate at all, but science is usually slow to crawl outside the box. Axioms and theories are just that. In mathematics especially, a great many theories are built on assumptions and nothing more.
 
Quote from RCG Trader:

I don't know about the cold fusion debate at all, but science is usually slow to crawl outside the box. Axioms and theories are just that. In mathematics especially, a great many theories are built on assumptions and nothing more.
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Although mathematics is often called "the queen of sciences", you can't really compare it to hard sciences like physics and chemistry. Pure mathematicians pride themselves on making mathematical advances that have no immediately obvious real-world applications. And mathematics doesn't have theories, it has theorems. Big difference.

By contrast, a scientific theory is only good if it adequately explains real phenomena: observations and experimental results in the real world.
 
same with aircrafts. people laughed at the idea. the very same people pay big money to buy tickets to fly over atlantic.

those who laugh at cold fusion now, will be first to use it in the future. or maybe they will not want free energy, huh?

how about earth is the center of the universe? 1000 years ago you could be killed for denying the concept.
 
Quote from DT-waw:

those who laugh at cold fusion now, will be first to use it in the future. or maybe they will not want free energy, huh?
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Quote from DT-waw:

two things are infinite: universe and human stupidity. and i'm not sure about the universe :D

a. einstein.
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Sounds like he had you in mind. Cold fusion is as dead as perpetual motion. I'll keep laughing and you'll keep believing. :D :p
 
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