IMO, designing and testing a system on the same data is almost always worthless, or at least, very poor evidence of the viability of the system....
I'm back! I haven't been trading since about the time of my last post (mostly due to adjusting to new baby, partly due to other ventures). I...
If only... Fletch
+24% Fletch
google "four year cycle" Fletch
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Fletch
Not backtesting is silly. Remember, even something as basic as "buy and hold" is based on a backtest. Fletch
It doesn't surprise me you couldn't win at poker, if this is an example of your ability to reason. Only someone who knows nothing about the...
As opposed to poker, where the skill sets involved to be profitable are... what? You tried to figure the game out and couldn't. No shame in...
So, how much are you stuck? Fletch
I suspect I have played 100x as much online poker as you have, and I "don't know what you mean." (as in, you're talking nosense). What's in their...
Total nonsense. Ever heard of "grinder"? That's how the vast majority of people who make money from poker do it. He's feeding you a line of...
I know it is. A few hundred thousand hands of each. Also, dozens of other experienced to professional players with the same conclusion....
Groan. Hint: online play is much tougher than live play at any given stakes level. Also, your samples sizes mean _nothing_. Nadda, zero,...
What makes you think he did? While "You Can Be a Stock Market Genius" probably touches on some of the ideas his fund used to make money,...
This is one of those things that translates from gambling games like poker. A bad player has the hardest time understanding that losing all of...
Some possibilities: 1) Your rules were wrong, i.e., they were never positive expectation even though you thought they were 2) Your rules are...
Right, like Renaissance Tech. All scientist chumps who can't trade their way out of a paper bag. Fletch
Of course. You will have to look at the policies of your lender, but it is just a loan, much like any other. Of course. You cannot get...
Take online poker, for example. It's not illegal, so it doesn't fit (1), and as long as the deal is fair and there is no play outside the rules...
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