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- Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:12 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Is Discretionary Trading Undervalued?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9663
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:02 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19911
Fascinating, thank you. I will buy it. One problem I have found with reading anything by the Dalai Lama has been the quality of the translation into English. I suspect he has much to say which I would like to hear and I very much look forward to reading this. I feel you'll enjoy it, in the book you...
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:48 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19911
The eventual conclusion of some of the scientists quoted supports James Allen and the Buddha. We can learn, we can govern our behaviour and our emotions, our brain (our personality?) CAN be trained along the lines suggested by James Allen. Same conclusions can be found on: Destructive Emotions: A S...
- Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:49 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Margin To Equity Ratio - useful or not!???
- Replies: 29
- Views: 30086
As economists say just before they tell huge whoppers, All other things being equal, if two managers have equal returns, the one with the lower (M/E) ratio is taking less risk. Also, if a manager trades intra-day only the end-of-the-day margin will be zero; that doesn't mean that the risk is close ...
- Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:27 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Margin To Equity Ratio - useful or not!???
- Replies: 29
- Views: 30086
If you're familiar with the Kelly criterion, you can think margin/equity as the optimal bet size, the article below maybe can help.
Understanding the relationship between risk, reward and
margin/equity ratio in managed futures
http://www.aima.org/uploads/2002%5CJune%5Cwinton.pdf
Understanding the relationship between risk, reward and
margin/equity ratio in managed futures
http://www.aima.org/uploads/2002%5CJune%5Cwinton.pdf
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:32 am
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Brokers and the Patriot Act
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10359
AFJ, I agree with you, many of the bad practices are still around. I've the feeling that some areas becoming more and more regulated with no real results, while others are still far-west. You mentioned some kind of front-running+nostro account. Public exchanges should be deemed to offer for free and...
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:21 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Cash data for testing
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2597
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:17 am
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Brokers and the Patriot Act
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10359
Re: Brokers and the Patriot Act
.......transfers more that some nominal sum like $10,000 or any repetitive transfers of smaller amounts...... I don't know if you could find it interesting or amusing, in Italy there's still a shady character called the "spallone", so called because it's job used to be to cross the Alps b...
- Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:29 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Trading Solutions Software
- Replies: 24
- Views: 18846
- Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:46 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19911
- Sat Apr 02, 2005 12:51 pm
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: Weekly Bars with EMA futures system?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8383
In Murphys T.A. of the Financial Markets, on p. 182, he states that weekly charts are a very useful tool for trend analysis. I guess that intra-day,daily,weekly or monthly are just a way to look at prices and what does matter is the timeframe or length of your base indicator, moving average, channe...
- Sat Apr 02, 2005 12:41 pm
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: Weekly Bars with EMA futures system?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8383
- Sat Apr 02, 2005 12:25 pm
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: Weekly Bars with EMA futures system?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8383
Re: Weekly Bars with EMA futures system?
Anyway, can anyone share some insight or actual experience with trading with weekly bars versus daily bars? I was looking at you chart for Sugar and it looks like you're not using back-adjusted data. The one below is a back-adjusted weekly chart (CSI data) for Sugar with 5/20 EMA crossover. best re...
- Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:51 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Has Trend Following Really Gotten Harder?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13516
- Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:44 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: contango/backwardation
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15605
- Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:22 pm
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: requirements to become a floor broker
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9540
Are you surehello everybody,
i wanted to ask if someone knows about the requirements on becoming a floor broker on the exchanges like CBOT or NYMEX.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 41,00.html
- Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:47 am
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Stop Order Acceptance
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18923
- Wed Nov 17, 2004 4:03 am
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: Volume on NO Price Movment
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15590
- Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:33 am
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: Volume on NO Price Movment
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15590
- Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:26 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: How to pick the most suitable values among three parameters?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6242