Recent Content by Freestyle888

  1. Quantitative Analysis to improve probability and results

    Sir, I agree with you totally that having something that works is never an easy thing, and did not mean to imply that truly original work is...
    Post by: Freestyle888, Nov 14, 2018 in forum: Strategy Building

  2. Quantitative Analysis to improve probability and results

    There are many types of models that implement what you have described, typically mean-reversion jump-diffusion or threshold models, or two-state...
    Post by: Freestyle888, Nov 14, 2018 in forum: Strategy Building

  3. Quantitative Analysis to improve probability and results

    There is only one method that I trust, which is to painstakingly gather the tracking data yourself and evaluate the model errors periodically....
    Post by: Freestyle888, Nov 12, 2018 in forum: Strategy Building

  4. Quantitative Analysis to improve probability and results

    I think you need a setup that looks more than just win/loss probability. That's probably too simple a characterization of your PnL function. You...
    Post by: Freestyle888, Nov 12, 2018 in forum: Strategy Building

  5. Quantitative Analysis to improve probability and results

    I think you need to be careful about calibrating a model backwards through historical data (aka optimization), versus extrapolating that into a...
    Post by: Freestyle888, Nov 12, 2018 in forum: Strategy Building

  6. Can anyone recommend a company to build a workstation?

    I agree with you that Dell workstations are reliable. However I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a workstation configured with 8gb ram. I...
    Post by: Freestyle888, Nov 12, 2018 in forum: Hardware

  7. Can anyone recommend a company to build a workstation?

    For a traveling workstation, I would recommend a DELL Xeon class laptop, maybe something like a 6-core. Most laptops and desktops will support...
    Post by: Freestyle888, Nov 11, 2018 in forum: Hardware

  8. Fitness causing insomnia

    You are the one getting off track. My first point is simple - is it so hard to believe lifting heavy weights may be bad for your heart? If that is...
    Post by: Freestyle888, Oct 20, 2018 in forum: Health and Fitness

  9. Fitness causing insomnia

    I did not say to eat 2000 calories of sugar, in fact I said to reduce carbs but if you have to have some of it then try some before going to bed....
    Post by: Freestyle888, Oct 20, 2018 in forum: Health and Fitness

  10. Fitness causing insomnia

    Actually it’s been studied that if you lift more than 50% of your weight that it’s very stressful for your heart .. so you would recommend for...
    Post by: Freestyle888, Oct 20, 2018 in forum: Health and Fitness

  11. Fitness causing insomnia

    This is what I found worked: fish oil or zinc consumption before bedtime, alternative is taurine supplement. If doing exercise do high reps and...
    Post by: Freestyle888, Oct 20, 2018 in forum: Health and Fitness

  12. what is ur philosophical quote in regards to investing?

    In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all. -Icahn...
    Post by: Freestyle888, Oct 20, 2018 in forum: Options

  13. How does a big volume bar produce a small price movement?

    That post made no sense to me at all. Why would anyone bother to do a block trade on exchange instead of bilateral? On a futures exchange this...
    Post by: Freestyle888, Oct 17, 2018 in forum: Trading

  14. Can Anyone Be Successful In Trading.... With Only About 50% Win-Loss Rate?

    This. It's always possible to win on a low winrate system (see for example Black swan style betting), over a very very long time horizon with...
    Post by: Freestyle888, Jul 9, 2017 in forum: Professional Trading