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  1. Stock Swing Traders

    Interesting you mention no losses? Do you trade for real? Are you some kind of promotional trading wizard? Indeed you can smell them from...
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 23, 2006 in forum: Journals

  2. Does trading wear you out?

    It makes your head spin!!! For some it is a place where assets are transferred from one party to another, legally, hence the wearing effect...
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 23, 2006 in forum: Psychology

  3. MonteCarlo 'Fat-Tails' and Chebyshev's Inequality

    Every living organism has an infinite variance. Guess what, when you are dead variance drops to zero! Indeed stocks go to zero so variance is...
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 23, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  4. MonteCarlo 'Fat-Tails' and Chebyshev's Inequality

    In theory there is no difference between theory and practice but in practice there is How deep are your pockets? :D
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 23, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  5. Reasons for failur in automatic trading systems

    Be suspect of everyone, including myself here So yes test EVERYTHING, including Acrary's bullshit
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 23, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  6. Wanting to start a systematic trading approach

    How quickly do you want to lose money?
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 23, 2006 in forum: Professional Trading

  7. What is the worst one day loss you ever had?

    $300k+ on option spreads in 87
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 23, 2006 in forum: Professional Trading

  8. Value of Backtesting and Stops

    No stops will kill you !!! Stops in will help greatly but to do it business like lots of capital is needed!!!
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 21, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  9. Value of Backtesting and Stops

    Post your returns (all of you) or get lost kids!!!
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 17, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  10. Your most risky trade

    Shorting ELX at $28 back in 01 and seeing it rally to $46 without covering (Goldman Sachs upgraded it in the 40+....he he he). Added on the...
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 16, 2006 in forum: Trading

  11. Value of Backtesting and Stops

    Those of you, who perform tests back and forward may I ask you what your returns are over the last two to three years? Proper or no proper...
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 16, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  12. Value of Backtesting and Stops

    Like it or not Back testing and Forward testing are no different and both activities fall under the umbrella of so called historical data fitting....
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 15, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  13. Value of Backtesting and Stops

    Before you open your mouth Mr. Turtle post your trading performance over the last2 years! :D
    Post by: WinDiff, Aug 14, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  14. Newbie's be aware

    Supposedly Curtis Faith, an ex Turtle trader, is interested in writing a book on trading. Now, being a trader myself, I wonder how on earth...
    Thread by: WinDiff, Jun 12, 2006, 4 replies, in forum: Educational Resources

  15. This "edge" stuff

    Acrary's edge testing is no different to overfitting efficiency testing ;-) The higher the historical pct numbers the worst the real time...
    Post by: WinDiff, May 31, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  16. SPX Credit Spread Trader

    Many thanks I think I will try to come up with some hard and fast rules ala optioncoach... Additionally by constantly refitting the underlying...
    Post by: WinDiff, Jan 11, 2006 in forum: Journals

  17. SPX Credit Spread Trader

    Are you saying that cash volatility is a good proxy for the volatility of the contract 6 months out? I will test using cash prices and will see...
    Post by: WinDiff, Jan 11, 2006 in forum: Journals

  18. SPX Credit Spread Trader

    Thanks Tradestation? LOL .... I use all in house backed staff! I meant ED as in eurodollars
    Post by: WinDiff, Jan 11, 2006 in forum: Journals

  19. SPX Credit Spread Trader

    Thanks Wrt options on futures, eg. ED, how would you go about simulating using back-adjusted contracts and in particular how would you...
    Post by: WinDiff, Jan 11, 2006 in forum: Journals

  20. SPX Credit Spread Trader

    optioncoach, when you simulate viability of any of your option strategies, using computers, do you rely on cash or futures S&P data? In case...
    Post by: WinDiff, Jan 11, 2006 in forum: Journals
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