Winning percentage is a measure that beginning traders cling to. It becomes less and less relevant as you develop automated trading. Winning...
The K-Ratio is an excellent tool. I use it for all of my daily and weekly automated trading. However, it is not available for use intraday. That...
When leaders of organizations die, leave or are sidelined- investors flee. Investors know longer feel confident that the vision the company uses...
Kris â I swing trade an automated system in the daily and intraday (overnight) with stocks like AAPL, RIMM, etcâ¦. Slippage is a big problem...
Apple was a nice short this morning bouncing off resistance of late December lows. The next few days will be interesting. If it can say above the...
Selling your strategy to the public is more complex than âraising capitalâ. You are starting a software business. I developed software in IT...
Letâs start over again (a phone call distracted me during writing, sorry) and I will make more sense of my post. I took out the limit column. My...
Sorry about the table. The post reply submitted in the middle of an edit. I tacked slippage from my automation of daily stock trades over 8...
This is my slippage table: Price Range Commission Limit Slippage Normal General .00913 0.051 0.074 20 - 50 .00913 0.024 0.031 50 - 80 .00913...
Murray t turtle â It appears we have the same memory of cheap gas. I also remember in high school when they could not give gas away at $0.299 a...
There may be a double bottom forming in daily USO. But the trade will not trade place until there is a break out past $38.75 unless this is a...
Take a look a USO from the weekly time frame. The last monthâs USO price activity was a pullback in the downtrend on the weekly chart. Then last...
Interesting comments. 1. Passion. 2. All my summer on the lake swim, fish,... 3. Retired better than any pension I was ever quoted.
Tails like the one you show on RIG have been a trading problem since the dawn of trading. During the late 1990s when I traded Sun during the day...
A number of traders ask me to summarize what we have been stating about automated trading in this forum. So here it is: Most discretionary...
Estim â You have an excellent grasp of using ATR an ADX but you have to understand the opposite side of the equation which is the...
The retail trading industry is in the Stone Age with utilities like debug. It will be that way until we, as a group, gang up on them. I was in IT...
I attached a diagram of what automated trading looks like using a broker and a data server. I hope this helps. <img...
Estim â You have a very interesting model. The curse of dimensionality was not quite the optimization problem I was referring to with security...
Estim â Excellent comments about batch testing. This is one area than can tell you loads about. I have run more than 5000 tests in the 12 years...
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