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- Sun Nov 09, 2003 6:53 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Interesting test results (for a budding tester at least)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7409
Robustness
Enigma, Why do you feel using the different time period sets is the best way to do things? I am asking because i battle with it myself. One example would be that in testing your system during the 1980 - 1990 period, based on all of the events and price moves during that time, you found that it creat...
- Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:49 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Technical analysts exhibit no skill in predicting.....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9345
- Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:53 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Systems, merit and philosophy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15838
not to belabor this point but i find this interesting... I think this is an interesting thought experiment, which in the end may prove my point about psychology and emotions. From what i gather, you believe c.f. succeeded because he found out some secret in the rules, that Richard left for them to f...
- Fri Aug 29, 2003 11:56 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Systems, merit and philosophy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15838
By misinterpret, does that mean not be able to follow? c.f. has mentioned that of those that could follow the rules and initiate the same trades at the same time, they still came out with different results..because they couldnt follow the rules the entire time with an abandonment of what they deemed...
- Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:17 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Systems, merit and philosophy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15838
Enigma, I agree that they did some parsing out to help increase their odds on having good traders, so the study would not be able to prove that totally random people could be good traders. But the fact that they did screening and some people still weren't good traders suggests to me that it is an in...
- Thu Aug 28, 2003 6:15 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Systems, merit and philosophy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15838
Congrats!
Vince, Congrats on your progress as a self-taught trader. One point i am sure you are already aware of, each turtle had varying levels of success. Some failed out immediately (Sands), some did O.K. and some did very well. So while i agree, the turtles were given a good oppurtunity to be successful t...
- Thu Jul 24, 2003 1:40 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Mindset: being who we believe we can be
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11552
Article by Mark Douglas
Learning Flawless Execution of a Trading System by Mark Douglas http://www.angusjackson.com/ Not sure if anyone has seen this article before but i thought it was a great read about system traders and some of the psychological obstacles that exist for system traders as well as strategies in overcomin...
- Mon Jun 23, 2003 8:48 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Dos and Donts of Drawdowns
- Replies: 23
- Views: 30662
- Sun Jun 22, 2003 10:49 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Dos and Donts of Drawdowns
- Replies: 23
- Views: 30662
Dos and Donts of Drawdowns
Risk and Reward will forever be linked to each other's hips in trading. Since a big part of trading success entails managing one's emotions through a drawdown, i was hoping we can learn from other members' experiences, rules of thumb and mental preparation to possibly form some dos and donts of mana...