Recent Content by postal

  1. trend following delusion shattered

    Hank, try iwn like I said before. I posted a chart of trading the 34/8 ema of iwn earlier in this thread. Also, try...
    Post by: postal, Apr 14, 2005 in forum: Trading

  2. trend following delusion shattered

    Hank, is there a trading system that does not result in wildly disparate results of traders using it? As I said before, some securities trade...
    Post by: postal, Apr 14, 2005 in forum: Trading

  3. trend following delusion shattered

    So, it is well documented that trend trading works for some securities, right? And this has been documented over 10 years, right? I don't...
    Post by: postal, Apr 14, 2005 in forum: Trading

  4. trend following delusion shattered

    Questions: What securities did you backtest? What moving averages did you use? What time period? (last 3 months, last 12 months, 5yrs) What...
    Post by: postal, Apr 13, 2005 in forum: Trading

  5. trend following delusion shattered

    It's easy to see if a trend method works or not....just apply it to a security and see if you have consistent profits. If you're using moving...
    Post by: postal, Apr 13, 2005 in forum: Trading

  6. trend following delusion shattered

    OK, that's all I'll say on trend trading....looks like there are some folks that like it, some that hate it. Each to his own. There's a lot of...
    Post by: postal, Apr 8, 2005 in forum: Trading

  7. trend following delusion shattered

    Hank, the selection of a secuity to trend trade is not random. You have to look at the historical performance of a security applying your trend...
    Post by: postal, Apr 8, 2005 in forum: Trading

  8. trend following delusion shattered

    Thunderdog, yes, I knew you were agreeing with me and I thank you; I guess the post about verification was for those who may not have thought it...
    Post by: postal, Apr 8, 2005 in forum: Trading

  9. trend following delusion shattered

    Thunderdog: What I posted was anecdotal, yes, but at least for the charts on odmax and iwn it's verifiable that you can use simple trending...
    Post by: postal, Apr 8, 2005 in forum: Trading

  10. trend following delusion shattered

    NickelScalper: I think the best argument against random success was the return I got in 2002. It's the one I'm most proud of. The markets were...
    Post by: postal, Apr 8, 2005 in forum: Trading

  11. trend following delusion shattered

    Thanks, Hank, but your praise is undeserved. Take a look at the gif files I posted above. These are purely mechanical trades...no skill involved.
    Post by: postal, Apr 8, 2005 in forum: Trading

  12. trend following delusion shattered

    NickleScalper, how do you define "reliability?" You want numbers? This year so far I am down 5% (trendless markets.) Last year (2004) I was...
    Post by: postal, Apr 8, 2005 in forum: Trading

  13. trend following delusion shattered

    If anybody's interested, here's one version of an Excel spreadsheet I was using a few years back to keep track of stock trading. As long as you...
    Post by: postal, Apr 8, 2005 in forum: Trading

  14. trend following delusion shattered

    NickelScalper: When you say trend trading doesn't work, and others (like me) say it does work, I think everybody's right and everybody's wrong....
    Post by: postal, Apr 8, 2005 in forum: Trading

  15. trend following delusion shattered

    Lefty, here's a composite equity curve trading three ETFs (EWO, IYR and IWN) using a combo of ema crossover, macd histogram crossover and...
    Post by: postal, Apr 6, 2005 in forum: Trading