Recent content by ZDO

I've been looking to buy some fear, chaos, and madness in the markets all week long - haven't found any. Maybe next week ;) Now the systemic issues - that's a whole different chaotic story !!

Indicators On one level, everyone uses them. Even those who use price only patterns or price and volume patterns are using ‘calculated’ indicators – calculated of course with a much wetter and grayer neural net math but nonetheless calculated via wetware and output to the mouse clicking lobes...

Safe Haven | Buying Silver in Britain All the best, zdo

As has been said many times, many ways – price data is derived (ie distanced) from the auction and indicators are derived from price data. ie even further removed from the auction. Indicators are representations of representations. However to try to enroll every other human trader in the...

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Another trait (actually very common for such threads) was the sudden end in not quite comfortable consensus for all three of these threads. Morphic Resonance? OK. But what if every opinion offered up there on the topic is wrong? Does the 100th monkey concept apply to maladaptive ‘learning’...

Flowers for the grave of this thread Living Congruently

Took a brief gander at the “Are We All Just Gambling” thread and remembered similar threads on ET and in TS. It struck me that the material developed was virtually identical in all three threads ie no new ground was broken. They all followed the same general line of development -Same loose...

Thanks all for your PM's and posts All the best, zdo

I use the slope of a 4 period Juric moving average of my own equity curve for a system to determine how close to optimum-f to run. In most systems the allowed range is 43% to 102% of optimum-f, but some are constrained to ranging between ~30 to ~70 % of optimal-f . My (not necessarily...

Hi. Does anyone have an email address for Tony Plummer, author of Forecasting Financial Markets and other books and articles? Have some questions about his early writings. If so please PM me. He may be in UK, NYC, or in the South of France. ?? Many thanks. zdo

So true - I would know ;) In Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, he relates how dopamine regulates mood and supplies an internal reward system for the brain.. and that higher concentrations of dopamine correlates with lowered skepticism and builds to trading...

No - you can't be too clever...

How about exploring / testing the actual feasibility of trading perfect rings in FX? PM me if interested and need further info...

sytem method applicant __________ re: "Forget about the systems, is it the method, the application of the method, or the applicant of the method ?" Been gone a week – some may have said same by now but here is what I thought one night. I can almost, but not entirely, forget about systems...