<b>Indicators are just summaries of the underlying behavior of market participants.</b> Like the 30-second news segment on CNBC, they do not tell...
Actually chaos theory is ultimately inadequate to explain the markets, although its a better model than coin-tossing randomness. Chaos occurs in...
If you are intrigued by TradeTones and want to delve deeper into how sound might help you see patterns in the market, get the book "Auditory...
Read "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Taleb for an excellent discussion of the non-psychological reasons why traders don't make money. See:...
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! You're getting a bit harsh on yourself. (and taking away the jobs of all those ETers that get their jollies from trashing other...
Here is a qualitative description of the tweaks that you could make to your system to improve trading. All of these tweaks involve changes in the...
How does one distinguish between the traders that are trading on hope from those that are trading on something more than hope? It seems like...
<b>Emotions are Short-lived</b> Although emotions certainly do drive the market, they tend to operate on a short-term basis. Fear cannot last...
Regardless of how stupid the reg is, there is a way around it. What stops the brokers from offering 1-hour settlement or 1-minute settlement...
OK, I did not make myself very clear on that one. Made me realize there are two different types of erroneous exit situations. <b>Erroneous...
What about the flip-side error -- an erroneous exit. Do you immediately re-enter the position to maintain discipline? Or do you blow your plan,...
I like aphie. Yes, he has been posting prolifically of late, but most of it has been very informative (such as sharing his recent work and...
aphie, <b>RE: 1,452 trades with an average win ratio of 0% and an average loss per trade of .25 (the spread)</b> LOL! Sounds like you found...
aphie, <b>Cool graphs!</b> Have you tried taking a 500-bar EMA on the first data set (the first differences of the 200-msec price averages)...
rs7, Sorry to hear that you had such a disappointing experience. It sounds like trading with such a strict loss-cutoff risk management policy...
aphie, One issue, with high-speed trading is the total cycle time from the market, through the data service, over the internet to your PC,...
<b>Cool idea, but expand the formulas and see what you really have here:</b> Its always a good idea to expand and combine the mathematical...
<b>Confidence intervals on averages</b> The T3 MA bands raise an important point about any statistical approach to MA. In admitting that noise...
BTW, if you do buy DeMark's book go to: http://www.invest-store.com/cgi-bin/elitetrader-bin/redir.cgi?moreinfo.cgi?item=5712 You'll be...
On the one hand, I agree that recent retail investors will probably avoid buy-n-hold like the plague for the next 5, 10, maybe forever years. By...
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