Socrates Examines Technical Strategy

Discussion in 'Strategy Building' started by Socrates, Dec 27, 2008.

  1. I suspect that many of readers think that I am not serious about unambuggerously coding SCT. Let me assure you that I am having a ball with it. I long ago gave up and started charting on 5 minutes, but I didn't enjoy it because I felt obliged to crayola. Now that I don't have to do that thanks to my code, I am enjoying that time frame much more. My only problem has been getting my mind into the head of SCT. My brain is too big.
     
    #371     Jan 5, 2009
  2. Oh, it's worse than that. Although the whole code takes about 60 SLOCs, the reversal decision itself takes only one line, so I could write the tests on a postage stamp. But I forgot that to overoptimize it I had to go to four tests. Untestable without a Cray.
     
    #372     Jan 5, 2009




  3. Socrates,

    The code for SCT, I hear JC Penny and Walmart have it on sale for $5 a throw.



    Dackster.
     
    #373     Jan 5, 2009
  4. One thing most of them have in common is NSOHW (no sense of humor whatsoever).

    Well, the day's results are in. I decided to treat volume in SCT like I do salt in soup. The attachment shows three candidate versions of SCWOT (SCt WithOut Tears, pronounced "squat", as in "you don't know..."). The bottom pane has a lot of volume. Second from the bottom, a little volume. And third from the bottom, none at all.

    All three are relatively stable codes, so I'll use them going forward in a breathless forward test using no money at all.

    Now I think it only fair to warn you that after a few more days of this, everyone on ET who doesn't know SCWOT is going to want to. But I am decidedly NOT sharing. What I will want all of you to do is go back to the beginning and read Jack from day 1, just like the B-Team did. And learn to to SCWOT by yourselves, like I had to. "Do the work!"
     
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    #374     Jan 5, 2009
  5. That is priceless, three 6's! I'll look at the others, thanks.
     
    #375     Jan 5, 2009
  6. OMG! "One million in a hundred days!" Now I have to change my Depends! Thank you thank you thank you, 666, for archiving doze files!

    Who knew Elite was pronounced E-Light? Baron, did you?

    "OK?", "OK?", "OK", "You know", "Whatever".

    God, and I thought I was dumb! He is a BRICK! But a master motivator, obviously!
     
    #376     Jan 5, 2009
  7. Many thanks! Back in the '50's, before most of ET was born, there was a marvelous little monograph called The Voice of Neurosis. What a treat it was for me to remember that book and to make an analysis!
     
    #377     Jan 5, 2009
  8. Today is Day One of the newest Jack Hershey hostage crisis. Don't worry folks, I've successfully(?) brought him out of r-ET-irement before. But I can't do it alone. All over ET, you must BEG Jack to come back. I will do my part by nagging you about it, and by so egregiously misrepresenting SCT that he becomes apoplectically enraged. Basely abusing his protegee Neoxx might help, although I don't recall that that saved Nwbprop. Jack has a history of letting them twist in the breeze. But remember: ET is not ET without Jack.
     
    #378     Jan 5, 2009
  9. Often I am asked why I trade from such tiny chart windows, with charts that require so little attention. Sheepishly I must admit that it is because most of my screen is taken up by a randomly sequencing flow of '50's pinups. At my age, one must prioritize one's pleasures. Or vices.
     
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    #379     Jan 5, 2009
  10. O Jack! Pleeeeeze cum baaaack!

    Regards,

    Big C
     
    #380     Jan 5, 2009