Traders' Roundtable

Richard Dennis in one of his interviews said that he is a big believer in power of Ideas. He was probably talking about the Democratic Think Tank that he founded; however it is probably true of trading as well, people 20 years later are still trading his original turtle system.

I was wondering if ...

I started using Hypnosis, visualizations, NLP back in the late 80's. Mostly to work on trading related issues but also on some deep personal issues. A lot of the personal things cleared up, however trading issues still remain to this day. Namely lack of discipline in following mechanical systems and ...

Kiwi, thanks for following up.

After the initial exuberance about automated trading, I did fall back in my old pattern of trying to override or beat the system. I found myself at times shutting off the automated system, there were other times when I would hedge the positions against the system. For ...

Thanks for all the replies.

Interestingly Ironwood suffered their biggest one month loss last month. Down almost 5%. I am no longer able to view their performance, they recently changed it to a password protected page. But IASG has it.

http://www.iasg.com/intro.htm

I find quite a few similarites ...

I just recently couple of months ago fully automated all of my trading. It took me a few weeks to get use to it, but now I feel it is a very liberating experience.

I have noticed the following:

1) Reduction in Stress.

2) Freeing up more time to do research, work on myself and post messages on ...

Here is a Hedge Fund that day trades, has consistent track record of monthly gains w/ very low drawdowns < 4%.

http://www.ironwoodassetmgt.com/

I am trying to get a better handle on their technique used. Just wondering if anyone has experience with weight assingment to indicators?

I have always ...