Recent Content by Swarm

  1. New study says: Technical Analysis is garbage

    @Laissez Faire, many different types of strategies were automatically constructed that when reviewed could be classified, by a human, as breakout,...
    Post by: Swarm, Jun 18, 2012 in forum: Technical Analysis

  2. New study says: Technical Analysis is garbage

    I approached TA very analytically and built some very sophisticated software that created and backtested candidate strategies built from...
    Post by: Swarm, Jun 18, 2012 in forum: Technical Analysis

  3. RSI based trading strategies

    You need to be very careful that your test data doesn't show any bias e.g. EURUSD has a distinct upwards trend over the last ten years and so your...
    Post by: Swarm, Feb 20, 2011 in forum: Technical Analysis

  4. Why I prefer EA's to Manual Trading

    250 pips at 0.1 lots = $250 which is 5% on the nominal $5k account. as stated. It was 30% of the overall profit at the time which is what...
    Post by: Swarm, Feb 11, 2011 in forum: Forex

  5. Are the Signals providers a good option?

    I recently posted my experiences as a signal provider with Zulutrade :-...
    Post by: Swarm, Feb 10, 2011 in forum: Automated Trading

  6. is stagflation the future of the US stagflation or something worse

    Well when I take my first sip from my pint of beer I know that supply is finite and at some point it will run out. When it's full, I'm not...
    Post by: Swarm, Feb 10, 2011 in forum: Economics

  7. Why I prefer EA's to Manual Trading

    Interesting discussion. I have experience from the other side of the fence in that I am a signal provider on ZuluTrade and formerly on Collective2...
    Post by: Swarm, Feb 9, 2011 in forum: Forex

  8. Question about Strategy Trader, MT4, and Tradestation

    I've used MT4 to automate Forex strategies and it's fairly straightforward and pretty reliable. The only gotcha with MT4 is that it cannot...
    Post by: Swarm, Feb 9, 2011 in forum: Automated Trading

  9. is stagflation the future of the US stagflation or something worse

    Peak oil is virtually here :- http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/08/saudi-oil-reserves-overstated-wikileaks Recent news snippets...
    Post by: Swarm, Feb 9, 2011 in forum: Economics

  10. Just another trading platform - But this time different!

    It can but it is excrutiatingly slow. When I backtested my forex strategy on OpenQuant it took 40 seconds against 10 years of hourly data (~...
    Post by: Swarm, Jan 28, 2011 in forum: Automated Trading

  11. F#

    I'm surprised that functional languages aren't more popular with quant traders since they are a much better fit than OO and Matlab. I use...
    Post by: Swarm, Jan 28, 2011 in forum: Automated Trading

  12. free automated trading platforms?

    MetaTrader is good and fairly reliable as an automated trading platform. It also provides free access to historic data and the backtesting tools...
    Post by: Swarm, Dec 16, 2010 in forum: Automated Trading

  13. Non-regular bars ?

    Thanks for all of the replies. I think the main message was don't look too short term. I had a play with Renko and Heiken Ashi bars which seem to...
    Post by: Swarm, Dec 1, 2010 in forum: Technical Analysis

  14. Non-regular bars ?

    It seems to me that creating bars on arbitrary time periods like 1min, 5min, 1 hour etc. is missing most of the action. I have a strategy that...
    Thread by: Swarm, Nov 30, 2010, 38 replies, in forum: Technical Analysis