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.pk are pink slips or shares traded off the exchange. They trade off the exchange because they cannot pass the standards of becoming listed stocks. Therefore any investment in them is like investing in a lottery ticket. Sometimes scam artist take a position in these stocks and start bombarding...

Vectorvest is supposed to address that kind of investing. From what I've seen it performs valuations and identifies undervalued stocks that have a longer holding periods to realize any gains. I've never used it myself, just seen a demo at a trade show.

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Trading futures is one of the riskiest modes of trading. IRA accounts are supposed to be conservative growth investments. I've never head of anyone in their right mind investing their IRA is speculative futures. Might as well go to a casino or buy lottery tickets with your IRA. Look out there...

(1)exhaustive search (2) one network Tradecision is not a dedicated neural network tool. It does have that capability but in scientific terms it is sort of primitive. A lot of what you describe you will find with much more expensive pieces of software let alone Tradecision (yes I know...

Nst 1. Open a chart for a particular time period, say Jan 2004-Dec 2006. Insert a system, optimize it all you want,and insert a system equity indicator. When you are happy with the system, in the chart properties, expand the chart period to be Jan 2004-Dec 2008. The out of sample period will...

The indicators are largely based on Williams%R. I have seen the "unpacked" version. With this said, I have not tested the performance of easctrend 6.0 or abesys 7.0 so I can't be much help. However, for an expensive piece of software Easctrend 6.0 had a very primitive back testing function and...

has anyone used this piece of software? I saw a demo at the World Money Show last weekend in orlando and it performed several interesting types of analysis I have not seen in other programs. They have a demo version on the web site www.bestchoicesoftware.com but overall the program is...

Deepinsight comments I used Deepinsight for a couple of years when they used to sell a permanent license until they switched to year to year subscription then I thought it wa snot worth it. During the time I used it the authors made a number of improvements particularly with the ability of...

Not all Moving Verages are created equal Moving avegarges and the trend are like the chicken and the egg problem. here's my take on it: WHAT CAME FIRST, THE MOVING AVERAGE OR THE TREND? As you probably know, moving averages by definition are a lagging indicator. They combine today's level...

interesting archive on using AI tools This is a link the the letter archives of Jeffrey Mishlove. In each letter he explored the use of various indicators to feed in an AI trading system. His findings looked very interesting. Unfortunately his endeavours in the field started in 2002 and ended...

I originallty posted this reply in the equis forum but these are my observations regarding the Alphomega plugin: ========================================= jstaron wrote: Hi, I noticed AlphOmega buy/sell indicators seemed to be perfect [red flag]. A dozen buy signals were indeed followed by a...

approach I agree that if I try to find a good approach for building a model I am reinventing the wheel: these topics have been widely explored at academic level and applied in many areas of science. I will get the book and several other books on the subject and go over them when I have the...

Neural net model for TGT (Target Corp) This model was created to trade the proce of Target Stores (Symbol TGT). As an input I used the price of Walmart ( WMT, main competitor), $INDU and $VIX. I loaded data for 1/1/2002 through 12/31/2004. Biocomp Profit selected 10 best neural models and...

Neural Net attempt 2 In this example I used Biocomp Profit 2002. 1. I loaded Open, close, high, low, volume data for the following instruments: TGT, WMT, $INDU and $VIX. Period was 1/1/2002 till 12/31/2004 2. Using Biocomp I selected TGT as my instrument which I'd like to model and WMT, $INDU...