OOOF! Welcome to another of the little bugaboos that plague trading. I too run into discrepancies between different data sources (for end-of-day...
Yes, and its a very pretty, but somewhat dangerous cat.:) Of course, anyone used to playing with markets, should be comfortable with playing with...
I suspect that the "unique view of the market" concept is treasonous to some types of traders (and that is why they rabidly oppose it). If...
Interesting concept. Seems like it would depend on one's core approach to the markets. 1) IF one seeks patterns that nobody else knows about,...
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darkhorse, <b>Bootstrapping</b> Your bootstrapping concept (using our own money to get a foot in the door and then only use the market's...
Interesting analogy, darkhorse (I like 'consider this' and 'look at that' tangents). It seems, to me, that a trading system is similar to the...
You are totally right, the examples are totally contrived to illustrate a point. That point is that if you use margin, the losses create a deeper...
CartelTrader, Sorry to hear about the string of down-days. I, too, hit a rough patch (mine was back in mid-May to mid-June). The people here...
Hey, darkhorse, great thread! I too like wildcatting for interesting new ideas. You might enjoy "Latticework" by Robert Hagstrom. Its a fun...
I think buying puts on Martha Stewart would be a "good thing" right now.
OK, lets work through your example of a two traders, both 100k cash, both willing to risk 5%, both trading the same stock with the same entry and...
OK, I knew someone would catch the fact that my examples use the rather risky practice of buying a single position with the entirety of the...
<b>constant position size?</b> Yes, its true that maintaining a constant position size would have the effect that you state, but only if the...
OK, I can see where this can get confusing. Lets pretend that we are swing trading a stock and our first trade goes well (gaining 15% on a nice...
I use margin in two ways: 1) My swing trading system looks for stocks that have "fallen too much" so that I can expect a profitable bounce....
Thanx for the confirmation of proper ETiquette. I, too, hope that authors and representatives of trading-related product/service firms will...
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