Recent Content by MAD10

  1. Best Way To leverage yourself

    that will give 150K notional long exposure http://www.cme.com/clearing/clr/spec/contract_specifications_cl.html?product=ES now go to that site...
    Post by: MAD10, Oct 7, 2008 in forum: Trading

  2. i found the holy grail

    commissions are the smaller of the two problems (and could actually be ignored if needed). slippage (realistic bid/ask spreads and points of...
    Post by: MAD10, Oct 1, 2008 in forum: Strategy Building

  3. 10M US homeowners owe more mortgage than house's value

    "You need to get together with a bunch of other traders who lost on the same trade. Get enough votes, and you can have a bailout too! Free money,...
    Post by: MAD10, Oct 1, 2008 in forum: Economics

  4. SPX Credit Spread Trader

    OptionsCoach: thanks for the thread! I have a question (it may have already bean answered and I usually make an attempt to find an answer by...
    Post by: MAD10, Apr 8, 2006 in forum: Journals

  5. Anyone know what happened..

    <b>More like a poker player checking the opponents hands by betting at the pot. The player gets the info. Other players that can observe also get...
    Post by: MAD10, Mar 6, 2006 in forum: Trading

  6. High Frequency Trading - Hype or Substance?

    MacroEvent wrote: "<b>My trading is kind of high frequency in the futures with either a profit fill order or an new entry order every 1 point...
    Post by: MAD10, Jan 19, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  7. What is a scalp?

    drawdown is how one knows if he is utilizing capital well. Shappe's "cousins" are preferable (e.g. some version of a Sortino ratio, why get...
    Post by: MAD10, Jan 13, 2006 in forum: Trading

  8. Money Management and Dynamic Intraday Position sizing

    Nitro, you are on to something: there is some theory that if you were actually able to get this information by say studying your equity curve,...
    Post by: MAD10, Jun 29, 2005 in forum: Risk Management

  9. Posting System Results - WHY!

    What if there's a recurrent ever CHANGING market structure that defies consistent forward profits based on back tested results? As in, the...
    Post by: MAD10, Jun 28, 2005 in forum: Strategy Building

  10. (False) Breakout & Trend Reversal Strategies??

    I think the move is over and about to reverse; so I close my position. Instead the move continues in the same direction it went, and sometimes...
    Post by: MAD10, Jun 27, 2005 in forum: Strategy Building

  11. Question for Scalpers

    Pepto-Bismol :D
    Post by: MAD10, Jun 27, 2005 in forum: Strategy Building

  12. Using Pivots

    OddTrader, :confused: You are going to have to clue me in....
    Post by: MAD10, Jun 14, 2005 in forum: Technical Analysis

  13. Using Pivots

    Lefty, I enjoyed reading your comments. Thanks. Would you care to divulge some specifics on performance characteristics you have enjoyed with...
    Post by: MAD10, Jun 13, 2005 in forum: Technical Analysis

  14. trading approach

    I don't know about "predicting", but if you seek to achieve some level of robustness for your system results, the larger the number of "trials"...
    Post by: MAD10, Jun 6, 2005 in forum: Forex

  15. 5 instruments, 3 profitable, 2 losing. What to do????

    Have you asked yourself "Why" can you not make money in these instruments (while making money in the others (quite similar). Is it something...
    Post by: MAD10, May 25, 2005 in forum: Strategy Building