the reason indicators don't work isn't because they're lagging

Discussion in 'Technical Analysis' started by 1a2b3cppp, Jan 23, 2018.

  1. ionone

    ionone

    imagine a world where there are 10'000 different nail clippers, and everybody tries to clip their nails with them but none work. Only a few elected have the leisure to cut their nails.
    thus everybody has very long nails, and most people think it's impossible to find working nail clippers XD
     
    #91     Aug 13, 2020
  2. wrbtrader

    wrbtrader

    I don't use indicators but there is one thing I like about them...

    They can be easily backtested and forward tested.

    wrbtrader
     
    #92     Aug 18, 2020
  3. easymon1

    easymon1

    #93     Aug 18, 2020
  4. wrbtrader

    wrbtrader

    #94     Aug 18, 2020
  5. Even if you had a dozen different nail clippers, none of them would be very good at sawing lumber. Almost all indicators work at the task they were designed for, which is not to predict stock prices; however, people persist in trying to use indicators to predict stock prices.
     
    #95     Aug 18, 2020
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  6. Trader200K

    Trader200K

    Engineering, at the 97% level, is deterministic by necessity and underlying natural law. Bridges, wings, controls, etc.

    Trading with a hundred thousand people randomly and emotionally boogering with your inputs ... that where hard starts.
     
    #96     Sep 16, 2020
  7. ionone

    ionone

    well trading IS predicting prices
     
    #97     Sep 17, 2020
  8. themickey

    themickey

    Same ol' same ol'.
    Another johnny come lately rocks up and we go through the same ol' tired motions, back to square one of arguments repeated a million times.
     
    #98     Sep 17, 2020