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- Sun Mar 12, 2017 10:02 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Adding Optimal f to win% . avg gain / avg loss
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4389
Re: Adding Optimal f to win% . avg gain / avg loss
very briefly, accumulate the elements of optimal f, calculate it, and then add the stat in the after test script, like this: VARIABLES: index, totalWinTrades, totalLoseTrades TYPE: integer totalWinTrades = 0 totalLoseTrades = 0 FOR index = 1 TO test.tradeCount STEP 1 IF test.tradeProfit[ index ] > 0...
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:53 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Strength Ranking Stock System
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4755
Re: Strength Ranking Stock System
and thanks, marriot, for pointing out the new system...
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:21 am
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Avoiding/reducing taxes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14337
Re: Avoiding/reducing taxes
US citizens might consider relocating to Puerto Rico which has its own tax code... Forbes writes: "Act 22 grants new Puerto Rico residents (including, after a recent amendment, returning Puerto Ricans who left before 2006) a 0% rate on locally sourced interest and dividends as well as all capit...
- Sat Nov 21, 2015 8:45 am
- Forum: Testing Software
- Topic: Software performance questions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12227
Re: Software performance questions
Tim -- could you plz explain some more about "all line up": "3. Yes you can load up different time frames either as separate data files or using the built in intraday to daily conversion. So you could check if the time was between 10:00 and 11:00 and then check the daily RSI and the 1...
- Sun Jul 19, 2015 11:37 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Trader Psychology
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14945
Re: Trader Psychology
great ideas, thank you, sluggo...
- Sun May 17, 2015 9:07 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Trading Stocks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5337
Re: Trading Stocks
Some clients will only hold stocks & bonds, esp. in retirement accounts.
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 9:07 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: What do depressed trader usually do on stock market?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6864
Re: What do depressed trader usually do on stock market?
IMHO a depressed trader would: (1) hang on to losers in a bear market until his psyche screams "sell". this would mark a bottom. He would continue to short as the market recovers. (2) stay on the sidelines during bull markets until his psyche screams "buy". this would mark a top....
- Thu Mar 26, 2015 9:36 am
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: How to set the minimum % requirement in holding stock within portfolio?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5021
Re: How to set the minimum % requirement in holding stock within portfolio?
Something like:should work
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IF ( (quantity*order.fillPrice/test.totalEquity) < minPctPortParam) THEN order.Reject( "Order < Than minPctPort" )
- Thu Aug 21, 2014 8:44 am
- Forum: Data Providers and other non testing software
- Topic: Quandl
- Replies: 0
- Views: 16775
Quandl
Interesting to see how the big boys react to this... LINK "Quandl’s approach to paid premium data will be unprecedented. We will not play by the rules the incumbent data oligarchy has established. Their decades-old model has not served consumers well: it keeps data prices artificially high, i...
- Fri May 16, 2014 4:47 pm
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: What does Volume represent in general?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5305
- Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:19 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Seykota new book "Govopoly"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 28492
It's amusing to see "The Trading Tribe" available on Amazon used for $225 to $1900+ while Ed sells it new for $125.
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:22 am
- Forum: Data Providers and other non testing software
- Topic: CSI stock data - 10,000 max & unadjusted close
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6620
- Sat Dec 14, 2013 9:20 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Seykota's FAQ
- Replies: 38
- Views: 39374
- Sun Sep 08, 2013 12:21 pm
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Quesitons about Yield vs Fed Fund Rate?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5276
- Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:55 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Seasonality
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5156
- Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:50 am
- Forum: Market Psychology
- Topic: Where to find Investors Intelligence Sentiment Index?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11526
- Sat Apr 20, 2013 9:41 am
- Forum: Data Providers and other non testing software
- Topic: Quandl.com the way forward for data provision?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5458
- Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:14 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Trend Following: Profitable Reality or an Illusion doomed to
- Replies: 28
- Views: 33518
IMHO, Bill Gross's latest Investment Outlook is relevant -- [quote]All of us, even the old guys like Buffett, Soros, Fuss, yeah – me too, have cut our teeth during perhaps a most advantageous period of time, the most attractive epoch, that an investor could experience. Since the early 1970s when t...
- Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:58 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Seykota's FAQ
- Replies: 38
- Views: 39374
- Mon Feb 25, 2013 3:58 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Test - Can't post...something wrong with server?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2310