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- Mon Jul 07, 2003 4:29 pm
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Timid Equity / Bold Equity - Position Sizing Method
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13064
Timid Equity / Bold Equity - Position Sizing Method
Over two years ago, Mark Johnson presented Van Tharp’s position sizing technique that he chose to call Timid Equity / Bold Equity. For the description of the method, please follow the following link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaft_ta/message/953 Mark wrote: I ran Aberration on the 22 market po...
- Mon Apr 28, 2003 7:19 am
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Historical End of Day Price Data?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11396
PinnacleData
Has anyone had any experiences with Pinnacle Data ? They deliver commodity EOD data and their own software that allows you to link contracts using a number of different methods (back-adjusted included) at a very reasonable price. I have also read many positive reviews of their data and their quality...
- Thu Apr 24, 2003 4:15 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Confirming Robustness
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9709
Choppy trends
The turtle /breakout system so robust because it 's so simple. Basically, the only assumption is making is that " if the market is going to trend up/down , It MUST make a new high/low" which is perfectly logical and this assumption is valid under any market and market environment. While t...
- Tue Apr 22, 2003 3:06 am
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: VERY long term trends.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9601
Combining different time frame systems
Hi Damian, I like your idea of combining MT, LT and VLT systems. My experience is limited to the Polish market but recently I was also thinking about the ways in which you can reduce large give-backs of long-term trend-following systems and avoid serious damage to your capital during long congestion...
- Fri Apr 18, 2003 1:08 am
- Forum: Forex
- Topic: Backtesting a forex portfolio
- Replies: 17
- Views: 21654
Backtesting a forex portfolio
Hi, Suppose, we would like to test a system on a portfolio consisting of two forex markets: EUR/USD and USD/JPY. The problem is that the two markets are denominated in two different currencies. I wonder if you could convert USD/JPY into JPY/USD so that all the statistics were calculated and expresse...
- Thu Apr 17, 2003 7:57 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: A moment of significant enlightenment
- Replies: 16
- Views: 21129
Other Turtles?
Forum Mgmnt, many thanks for the interesting story. From what you can read on the originalturtles.org or in the Turtle Trading Rules, it seems that the project also involves other original turtles. Do you think there is any chance that some other turtles (or maybe Dennis or Eckhardt themselves) will...