Forum: Trading Systems 
Dec 27, 2005, 5:51am
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Views: 4,834  I think this method (run pairs of conracts,...
I think this method (run pairs of conracts, realise profits and allow unrealised losses) has made a large number of appearances in various guises.
There is a recent Elite Trader thread where the...
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Forum: Trading Systems
Dec 26, 2005, 2:54pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 18,598  VSA/Tradeguider
My experience with this (when it was fresh on the market in the first half of 2004) was disappointing. The trouble with it was not so much with bugs, or failure to refresh in fast markets, as with...
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Forum: Trading Software
Feb 19, 2005, 5:33pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 6,977 Wave 59 experience
I tried it for a few weeks last summer. Thought some of the ideas were interesting (Lomb preiodogram) and some wacky (horoscope based cycles). Rather prone to crash, lots of wild-looking data...
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Forum: Trading Systems
Sep 21, 2004, 10:17am
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,733 See last paragraphs of my previous post, which...
See last paragraphs of my previous post, which reported on live testing going forward (with real money). It was loss-making. On the other hand, other people evaluating it in the 2nd quarter of 2003,...
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Forum: Educational Resources
Aug 30, 2004, 1:10pm
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Replies: 143
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Forum: Educational Resources
Aug 29, 2004, 5:52pm
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Replies: 143
Views: 17,233 Case for the Prosecution?
Not intended as a prosecution. Rather, a series of explanations of the undoubted strength of feeling that is evidenced in the discussion that has welled up this week. Such explanation had been...
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Forum: Educational Resources
Aug 29, 2004, 3:35pm
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Replies: 143
Views: 17,233 Why the fuss?
There are several reasons for people to be making a fuss. They all have to do with the way that the Socrates persona functioned on t2w:
In style, the postings of Socrates were often pompous and...
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Forum: Technical Analysis
Aug 20, 2004, 5:38am
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Replies: 69
Views: 12,692 Volume: Important v Useful
The thread got bogged down over a rather theological dispute over whether volume, assuming it to be important, could be in some methodical way tamed and made useful. One party maintained that it was...
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Forum: Technical Analysis
Aug 13, 2004, 4:22am
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,773 Futurenets
If you have eSignal as your datafeed, you can put a realtime market profile tool on your charts for free. There is a download available from http://www.futurenets.co.uk/.
The add-in plots the...
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Forum: Forex
Aug 12, 2004, 6:28pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,799 Automated trading
Seems to me unlikely that you will find any platform supplier willing to accept the liabilities that worry you. They are part of life.
My feeling about automation of strategies is that they...
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Forum: Trading Psychology
Aug 12, 2004, 7:18am
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Replies: 1,093
Views: 202,244 This is an interesting example which makes, I...
This is an interesting example which makes, I believe, more than one type of distinction. The most striking thing about the behaviour is that the trader enters a transaction on the basis of a...
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Forum: Technical Analysis
Aug 7, 2004, 12:54pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 3,215 Tricks
There is a thing called TRIX (Triple eXponential) which its adherents claim is smoother than a short term moving average, but more responsive than a longer term average. I forget the exact...
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Forum: First Steps
Aug 7, 2004, 12:01pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,133 Archive information
I just looked through some old emails, and found three from this "sender". They tell you that you have to have a system with an edge, execute it correctly (but not expect each and every trade to...
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Forum: Site News & Feedback
Jul 25, 2004, 5:36pm
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Replies: 113
Views: 9,891 Living out 1984 on a daily basis
Only those who are still troubled by "memory" traces within the skull will have difficulty with phenomena like the disappearance of posts or threads. Pragmatic citizens nowadays cultivate the sense...
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Forum: Site News & Feedback
Jul 25, 2004, 3:12pm
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Replies: 113
Views: 9,891 My memory is that the hero had been reduced by...
My memory is that the hero had been reduced by advanced brainwashing methods to a state where he could no longer tell three fingers from two. At that point, when he was plainly unsuited to continue...
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Forum: Futures & Options
Jul 23, 2004, 8:54am
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,990 Key quote from the Harris article
4.) Option premiums are volatile. If you remember the discussion from last night, one of the main determinants of an options premium is the volatility of the underlying security. When the security...
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Forum: Trading Psychology
Jul 22, 2004, 4:51am
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Replies: 1,093
Views: 202,244 Option writing and volatility
But maybe something to do with collapsing volatility, in the following way. Supposed Windlesham is making a nice income out of writing options (probably, he is mainly doing credit spreads). As...
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Forum: Trading Psychology
Jul 20, 2004, 5:33pm
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Replies: 1,093
Views: 202,244 Infinite stops
What a horrible experience. You are right that your system is not infallible. 96% success rates and infallibility are not the same sort of animal.
The 96% success rate can only come from one...
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Forum: Technical Analysis
Jul 20, 2004, 3:26am
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Replies: 1,300
Views: 219,186  Reversal puzzle
That's very clear and helfpul. I still don't understand how the "3rd reversed bar" fits the pattern. Could you bear to have another go?
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Forum: Technical Analysis
Jul 19, 2004, 6:41am
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Replies: 60
Views: 30,402 Arrow
What does the arrow mean in the list of threads?
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Forum: Trading Psychology
Jul 16, 2004, 6:04am
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Replies: 1,093
Views: 202,244 I am with you in thinking that the noise and...
I am with you in thinking that the noise and chatter of a knitting circle (trading room, office, chat-room) is the antithesis of what is required. Although is there not a paradox in holding this...
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Forum: Trading Software
Jul 15, 2004, 5:07pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,150 What you have to do is save the file to, for...
What you have to do is save the file to, for instance, the Formulas./Library folder within the eSignal folders on your C drive. Then, when you have an advanced chart open, if you right click on said...
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Forum: Economic & Fundamental Analysis
Jul 15, 2004, 11:58am
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Replies: 2
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Forum: Educational Resources
Jul 15, 2004, 4:39am
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Replies: 143
Views: 17,233  Curiouser and curiouser
The Elvin website is a strange place. It is full of out-dated advertising (for courses that took place in the past) areas "under construction", and scraps of information about Aunt Flossie's...
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Forum: Technical Analysis
Jul 9, 2004, 5:01am
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Replies: 1,300
Views: 219,186 The 300 lot hit
People have been saying this. But for two reasons I think it is unlikely:
(1) The phantom order is almost always added to the order book when there is a buffer of a couple of hundred contracts...
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