True. During the 17 year span from Jan 1982 to Jan 1999, buy and hold on GE earned more than ten times as much per annum than it earns now. Ten+...
How much would you have to beat it by to consider yourself successful? Keep in mind all the commissions you'd be paying, as well as the stress of...
Quantitatively, I mean. Here's an example: Suppose you bought GE stock at the start of January 1999 and held it till yesterday (the highest...
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BLASH is best associated with S/R trading. How else to determine what is "low" or "high"?
Not a trading strategy. A trading strategy is a detailed plan stating exactly when to enter and when to exit a trade. BLASH is at best a...
Not sure what you mean. By quality do you mean the choppiness of the data? And what are you inputting to, if I may ask?
Smoothing price data prior to use as input is a very good idea if you're inputting to a trend indicator. The key is to use a fast smoother to...
His numbers don't make sense. 86.7% of 160 trades is not a whole number but it's supposed to be.
Nothing good about proposing Fourier analysis as a tool for price analysis.
What type of performance would you have to see from an outside strategy to make it worth your while?
Yeah, how dare TA be available for free! :mad: They should charge money, like Price Drivers! :D :p :D
"Can one get rich on stocks using technical indicators alone?" In a word, yes. Of course an indicator will only give you the timing: when to get...
It's a pity we don't have a Hall of Fame for single posts because this one surely qualifies. :)
You don't understand the new Kelly formula, imbecile. You certainly can't explain it, nor debunk it.
Wtf does that have to do with TA, shit-for-brains?
Too soon. Seriously. You have to take advantage of good days to compensate for bad days. My suggestion: Daily loss : $300 maximum. Daily...
Did Al Gore create the technology behind the internet? Of course not. Did Al Gore make possible the maximization of the internet through federal...
Exactly. I haven't seen a load of BS like that since Jack Hershey was in his prime.
Depends on how you compare them. If you compare 200 minutes to 200 days, sure they might look the same. But if you look at fixed period, say one...
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