Traders' Roundtable

Are you guys following Trends because you cannot find any other method that works or it is a CULT like thing?

http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=810657 It's probably a good time to start that trend following system again if you're not trading through this drawdown. Shane Wisdom www.wisdomtrading.com Hello Shane Why do you recommend A system that doesn't perform well for such long period...

http://securities.indiabulls.com/commodity/commodity.htm http://www.indiainfoline.com/ http://www.sharekhan.com/stock-market/commodity-india/commodity-home/111/commodityhome.htm I use these three. I am not sure about how easy it is for Foreigner to open account in India because of capital controls. ...

I trade Indian markets but from India
If you are in US then why not just trade ETFs. They are so many and for all markets.I think USA is traders heaven

Just take it as a lesson...And never ever use too much leverage
Gap ups and downs and have no use for stoplosses

Hi rajivm, I believe my reply was providing a useful source of information. That being said, I admit that it is highly tilted towards trend following. I do believe that trend following is currently facing a difficult environment, facts are facts, but I have yet to conclude that it stopped working a...

Hi oem7110, This is the latest best source of ideas I've come across recently. Mr. Clenow offers a one month free trial to this gem of technical analysis for the futures markets. Clenow Futures Intelligence Mr. Clenow also has a great book on systematic trend following on futures. Enjoy the reading...

oem7110 wrote:If you are trader, and monitor the market everyday, do you get Anxiety and Low Blood Pressure on your body?

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions :>

reduce risk. that will help I think

I tries so hard not to following my instinct by learning different indicators, which confirm the market. Even through those indicators are a good guidance and profitable if I follow them, but I cannot beat my instinct, which make me doing something wrong against my plan. I think if I need to beat m...

I always use brute Force method. Just run through the parameters and look at performance. Sorry, but I disagree with this. It demonstrates two serious biases: data mining bias and hindsight bias. Data mining bias because, given a set of data, you torture it enough to give results that are pleasing ...

Hi - I have an intra-day trading system & I'm trying to identify the optimal balance point between closing at a specific target price R multiple versus running the position until the close & therefore bearing the risk of giving back profit but being in the market to capture tail-type large ...

Well I am never going back to stone age again

Will it be the Market Psychology? ... when markets are extra sensitive to seemingly meaningless news ... What do people usually do most? Buy at high level - Enter Long Positions ? Sell at low level - Exit Long Positions ? Does anyone have any suggestions on this assumption? Thanks in advance for an...

yeah it is - shame Jon Henry and one or two others never tried it At least I doubt he "doubled down" as the advice in the link (quoted above) bizarrely suggests: http://www.attaincapital.com/alternative-investment-education/managed-futures-newsletter/investment-research-analysis/494 . Sur...

Then again, maybe I shouldn't argue with you as you are the richest man in the world PS. Thanks for wiping out the combined global debt of all nations :roll: seems like all those drawdowns are making someone very cranky :D Obama has won and promised MORE OF SAME for next 4 years...I guess 4 more ye...

This index from IASG is based on actual performance: http://www.iasg.com/cta-indexes/index/trend-following-index It's a good overview of trend following performance by managed funds. Robert Robbins @RobeverTrend Look at the performance of Discretionary Trader index vs systematic Trader index...O m ...

trackstar wrote:take that back to elitetrader.....

Why so!!!!!!!!! IS this method of losing money any different from systematic LTTF way of losing money ???? Both have similar Equity curve

Well,
while you waiting for the LTTF returns to come back you can learn this guy's method of identification of trend continution and stalling to make money from micro moves of markets

I feel IF a System is Good - trader will have no problem in following it..Only when system is not good enough this problem arises Are you saying this based on experience, or expectation? Many good traders report that they have trouble following their system. Many trading books talk about the same p...

I feel IF a System is Good - trader will have no problem in following it..Only when system is not good enough this problem arises Are you saying this based on experience, or expectation? Many good traders report that they have trouble following their system. Many trading books talk about the same p...