In Los Angeles, the market didn't even peak until mid 2006. An average home in jan 2004 was around 210k, that same home was about 598k in mid...
or... you could have bought Apple about 1 year go and lost 3% :) I agree though - Buy and Hold takes patience... my only point was that it...
Things about homes: When I bought my house my mortgage brokers said I had the highest credit score he'd ever seen. Interestingly enough - all...
I think Buy and Hold has an undue reputation for being a conservative strategy. Buy and Hold can have huge drawdowns and depending on what you...
This thought / challenge was inspired by the Tradestation software fee requirement but then became a reall curiousity of strategy. Only bother...
Welcome back - I've read a lot of your posts since you've been gone. I came in after you left... ...I was wondering if you ever collected your...
I'm currently using tradestation and found it's Easy Language very easy to learn. I've done a little bit of css scripting, a tiny bit of...
The first time I started trading was back in 2000 (a bumpy year unlike 1999). I found that my weakness as a trader was that I had no... um......
But so I understand... you said that your intraday strategies are NOT working? Yet all your strategies are intraday? Sometimes with the...
In my limited testing thus far I have definitely found the intraday much more difficult to develop for. A huge phenomenon I've also found is...
Is it a common phenomenon to have a harder time programming on the shortside? Also - I'm working in tradestation right now and someone said...
I've been quiet for a while because I've been doing mass studying on trading systems based on forum recommendations. I have a question though....
Thanks so much for fantastic answers. This has been extremely helpful and encouraging. There seems to be, if not consensus, some common ideas...
All of this information is helpful Much more optomistic than three to five years as well. Are you guys (and anyone else who answers this)...
I've been discussing my efforts for building a trade system with a couple people more than others and it dawned on me that both people say that it...
No problem in reading - I'm finishing up my fourth trading book this month already. Maybe I'll have to put one of these in front of the other......
I've not received tradestation yet (I have amibroker now and tradestation on the way). Is there any way to account for slipage in these programs...
Spectra, you really ought to put your money into etrade, you can get like 5.05%.... wait did I miss the point? :) Seriously though, if that...
kiwi_trader - thanks for your follow up posts - I really appreciate it. jack hershey - I think I understood most of what you wrote. :) You...
Assuming you can identify some decent support/resistance lines - it's the ambiguity which would require additional rules. You'll want to add...
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