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  1. Liquid Futures Contracts

    Here are world futures markets ranked by liquidity from most liquid (#1 = Bund futures on Eurex) to least liquid (#74 = Fluid Milk on CME)....
    Post by: horribilicus, Jun 2, 2006 in forum: Financial Futures

  2. win/loss over 70% - please help

    Here are some rules that give 70% winning trades. For each of the stocks in your Watch List, do the following steps:If ADX > 20, buy tomorrow at...
    Post by: horribilicus, Jun 2, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  3. Question for the old timers & experienced

    If you left NYC and moved to a low cost-of-living, zero income tax state (New Hampshire, Nevada, Texas, Florida), you could focus on trading your...
    Post by: horribilicus, Jun 1, 2006 in forum: Professional Trading

  4. Trading systems: profitable on longs only

    On this question the only opinion that matters is yours. If you like it, do it. If you don't, don't. You can ask yourself the question: is...
    Post by: horribilicus, Jun 1, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  5. Why are they building new US car plants?

    Wouldn't you think somebody would invent a derivative product that allows people to hedge their currency risk? And wouldn't you think that...
    Post by: horribilicus, Jun 1, 2006 in forum: Economics

  6. Position size for Futures?

    The highest trading volume futures markets areBund eMINI S&P BOBL EuroSTOXX Schatz Dax Euro Currency futures EURIBOR Crude Oil FTSE-100
    Post by: horribilicus, May 30, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  7. Trading systems: profitable on longs only

    With commodity futures, I find that the long trades perform much better than the short trades. However I also find that when you take all trades...
    Post by: horribilicus, May 29, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  8. Medicine or Wall Street?

    Medicine. THEN Wall Street. You will find there is a career diode (a word worth looking up) which dictates a doctor can become an investor /...
    Post by: horribilicus, May 24, 2006 in forum: Professional Trading

  9. Kinematics, Calculus, and other higher maths

    I hold the belief that taking an outright position is tantamount to making a prediction. When I go long 5 contracts of Feeder Cattle, I am...
    Post by: horribilicus, May 23, 2006 in forum: Technical Analysis

  10. Mechanical vs Technical Trading

    "Smith Barney makes money the old fashioned way: they EARN it." -- TV commercial starring actor John Houseman -Horribilicus (a technical,...
    Post by: horribilicus, May 20, 2006 in forum: Trading

  11. portfolio mangement

    Google search for TR (see image file) gave the appropriate answer in the first displayed link (the first "hit"). Google search for WL gave the...
    Post by: horribilicus, May 19, 2006 in forum: Educational Resources

  12. Degrees of Freedom

    Most economic pontificators prefer to invoke the name of Adam Smith.
    Post by: horribilicus, May 19, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  13. portfolio mangement

    For futures trading, a good first start is V & B http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471527564/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471522155/...
    Post by: horribilicus, May 19, 2006 in forum: Educational Resources

  14. Start of year to current date...... are you profitable?

    It might be better to express YTD profits in percentage terms rather than absolute dollars. A guy with $2M in a 4% money market account has made...
    Post by: horribilicus, May 19, 2006 in forum: Professional Trading

  15. How do the commodity markets work?

    Some people think "how the commodity markets work" is such a complicated topic that they have written entire books to answer the question....
    Post by: horribilicus, May 18, 2006 in forum: Financial Futures

  16. Degrees of Freedom

    The ultra-pragmatist wing of the church of mechanical trading systems often uses a rough rule of thumb as follows:Make sure your simulation tests...
    Post by: horribilicus, May 17, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  17. Degrees of Freedom

    I prefer 3 or 4 adjustable parameters for the entry+exit portion, and another 1 adjustable parameter for the position sizing portion, in the...
    Post by: horribilicus, May 16, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  18. Position sizing: Risking 1% equity per trade

    traderdragon is correct. The simplest procedure is Simulate system with risk=0.2%. Write down the max drawdown. Simulate system with risk=0.4%....
    Post by: horribilicus, May 14, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  19. Inidicators used in your strategy?

    I trade futures using a mechanical, pure-TA approach. One of my most profitable systems only uses two technical analysis functionsTrue Range (as...
    Post by: horribilicus, May 13, 2006 in forum: Technical Analysis

  20. What's the worst drawdown you can handle?

    Buy-and-hold has seen drawdowns of 30% to 65% in the most recent ten years. It's actually rather fun to grab the data off Yahoo Finance for the...
    Post by: horribilicus, May 11, 2006 in forum: Psychology
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