>I see that you are a physicist, just like myself, but most people >here would probably want something more simplistic. In other >words, should I go short or long and at what price.
>Can you make it so simple? After all physics is the most >successful science when it comes to making predictions.
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>Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - >A. Einstein
I wanted to answer you the other day more thorougly I didn't have time but I will do it now.
I am an ingenier with process in food and petroleum specialisation. I became an ingenier because I finally decided not to become an astrophysist. Professionnaly I have coped with statistics and software engineering. Although heteroclit (? sorry for my english if I made many mistakes) all those backgrounds helped me approach the market the way I did it. At first I approached from the stochastical point of view. Things kept very simple not doctorate math just a few indicators derived from moving averages. It worked very well as I was scalping on the pit of french futures market. Things changed when came electronisation, I began to lose. Like Livermore, I didn't first understand why. If you have read Livermore, there is a passage where he described a serie of losses he couldn't understand a first until he realises. What he realises is his tape reading skill that make him so successful at bookmakers shop was not enough at the New York Stock Exchange because the delay between his order and execution was not the same. And I realised the same thing a bit late also. So I divide the number of trades by 10 and goes up in upper scale. But I still wanted to scalp with the same success. So I looked for a more sophisticated approach of the market that could give me the precision needed to go down on the lower scale again by controlling the risk again. This is the origin of the complexification of my trading. A personal story.
Now to the question can you make it simple ? As you quoted Einstein, make it simple but not SIMPLER. That means there is an irreductible complexity that you can't break without damaging the true picture by making too simplest. Complixity is not complication: complication is when you disguise things under unecessary coats. As for the model, I can't make it simpler. As for trading system, yes I can make it simpler because modelisation and trading system is not the same thing. I wll talk about trading system soon when I will have time and that let you the time also to approach the model Although you can't understand it thorougly, you can ask questions and I will try to answer in a FAQ.