Yes, but nobody wants your stuff while Jack, on the other hand, has the biggest following on ET (if you don't believe me, ask him)! So to...
This is exactly why people need to stay away from metrics they don't understand. The examples "man" has given are perfectly plausible and...
You can't do it so it can't be done? Now who's deluding who about the "holly grail?"
Well said! Testing (back and fwd) is immeasurably useful, if and only if performed properly. Warning: KIDS DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!! I say that...
Would you say that an AM radio has a problem because it doesn't receive FM? PF doesn't try to boil an equity curve down to a single number......
You're kidding, right? If your understanding of something as simple as PF is so flawed, how can you ever hope to understand Sharpe? It is WELL...
Sorry mister man but profit factor doesn't try to quantify the smoothness of an equity curve. It simply measures how many dollars/euros/whatever...
No offense AskQuestions but profit factor and payoff ratio are both incredibly simple metrics and if you don't understand them, I highly recommend...
Trade Jack Hershey's really kewl SCT and you can make 4% to 7% per day, according to Jack and his disciples. Hint: think Boolean.
Jack Hershey does 4% to 7% PER DAY! If you don't believe me, just read his posts or ask his disciples.
I think your definition of hedging is way too narrow. For example, sometimes it makes more sense to protect a long stock trade with puts than to...
ROTFLMAO!!!! Let me get this straight... me giving you a much needed reality check is "hurting ET's business" BUT you posting hilarious,...
Yeah, right! And you also have the colossal ignorance to dis Warren Buffet... does your mother know you're accessing the internet? "But...
Here's what you do: ask yourself "what would Jack do?" and BELIEVE!!!!
Like the illogical way you pretend that you and Jack can trade while those who criticise his Boolean ballyhoo can't, because that's what you need...
And there will be annual pilgrimages to Tucson... and stores across the land will sell tiny plastic llamas, 3-ring binders and Grob109 gliders......
Jack may very well be THE guru of the millennium (or century AT LEAST). I can easily picture Grobian scholars in the distant future, poring...
I've offered several times and the offer's still open. How about it Jack?
I have serious doubts about easyrider's success... if you check his posts, there's nothing about it until, all of a sudden, he needed "proof" to...
Backtesting tools have become more and more sophisticated. In the "olden days" vendors and Svengalis could claim just about anything. The...
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