Traders' Roundtable

I've bought 20 months of individual generic front-month "tickdata" from the Singapore exchange. What's the easiest way to create a "back-adjusted" data file for TradeStation simulations assuming that the data should be rolled at expiration? Is is possible to write an algorithim i...

Phantom of the pit $ mgmt Strategy - Going in the market in a 3-1-1-1 fashion 3 lot 1 lot 1 lot 1 lot The strategy is under rule no.2. http://www.trading-naked.com/library/Phantom_of_the%20_Pits.pdf Also, do you believe the first 3-lot is sujected to a) the max amount of risk ? b) all-in mode c) sam...

Eckhardt's equity curve is unreal http://www.iasg.com/SnapshotPT.asp?ID=114 How many times did Richard Dennis blow up over the last 20 years ? Judging from the drawdown and AUM, Eckhardt seems to be much better than Richard Dennis, even though he lost the bet in the turtle experinment. Does anyone k...

The concept is simple, but if everyone could do it in the real trading world with their eyes closed, I guess we all would be very rich already. From my testings, I found that it's not difficult to add values to a single paremetre strategy by changing the money management rules on a yearly basis. How...

Larry said " assume that they are better than average at picking winners and assume that they are right 50% of the time. They run their losses until they have lost 50% of their capital and take their profits when they are up 10%. They have almost guaranteed themselves a loss of 20% over time!&q...

Some breaking news. Wealth-Lab Developer 3.0 integrates a trading interface with IB. You can now leave your system on auto-pilot! Peter redbullpeter, Do you need additional software such as TradeBolt to achieve auto execution with IB using Wealth-Lab ? Can TradeStation 2000i do that without TradeBo...

Has anyone tried the "world's most powerful glasses" described on page 69 in Dr. Steenbarger's book ?

Does it really work ?

To me, this is my observation 1) Fighting retracements with a profitable position I believe it takes al least 50 - 100 learning trails to develope the ability to hold a profitable position against countless retracements before capturing a big trend. Psychologically, taking profits prematurely remove...

which one is harder to do psychologically intrday ?


1) Fighting retracements with a profitable position

2) Taking a re-entry point after the market has started trending


Can we do a poll ? many thanks...

NLP works. The "new" you will definitely be better than the "old" you. Of course, NLP won't program anyone's brain to replicate Einstein or anyone else who we associate with great intelligence. Fortunately, successful trading doesn't require brillance. A functioning brain and a ...

I recently read the book "NLP for traders." One trick I found useful is that there's a serious + correlation between big breakfast and big + P/L.

Anyone experiences the same ? anyone ?

yes. Goal setting does enhance P/L. It has happened to me.

Whenever the markets go down and market participants experience fear, my trend following strategies performed significantly better in terms of both profit factor and percentage profitable. This phenomenon has been happening over and over again, and I've been adding positions when trend velocity incr...