Traders' Roundtable

There are spiritual books and scientific books... nothing says the two are not to come to the same conclusion by two different paths..

One of my best reads last year on the brain was:

"The Brain that Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge, MD - easy read and very interesting. There is a chapter on ...

Also thought I should mentioned, went looking at the morality of trading, it is also interesting to consider the history of money.

If you haven't seen the show or read the book, "The Ascent of Money" by Niall Ferguson is really interesting. You can find the whole series on youtube.

This is the section that I find people often complain about:

"In the case of the stock exchange,
however, a man may be at once the guiding manager
of a corporation and a speculator in its securities.
In this case he has a divided interest, his duty to
his stockholders and his desire to make ...

You are right. Krutsinger is short term or day trading. I had bought the book before Christmas so I wanted to read it regardless. . I am going to go through the thread of good books to read.

Like you I am staying with Daily data. I purchased Pinnacle data a few weeks ago.

You haven't discouraged ...

Thank you for your comments. It really helps to get feedback.

AFJ, if the older you get the more you realise you don't know much then I am in real trouble. I really don't feel as if I know much at all.. :+)

Gunter, you are right. I do use daily data.

I have decided to stop trading money for a ...

Thanks Levi, for bringing me back down to earth.

The figures that are printed on this thread are much much greater then I could ever imagine
To give you an ideas, I think a system that produced 30% CAGR is good.
The fact you can get more then 100% CAGR with a DD less then 20% is out of this world for me

Hi,

I feel that since using trading blox, I feel so much more like a gambler. I guess now I realise how hard it is to trade successfully and how important a long term proven system is.

At the same time, the more I try to 'design' a system the worst the results - even if I try to keep it really ...