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- Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:22 pm
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Looking for Licensig CD's (series 3,7,30)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6431
- Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:56 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Meditation
- Replies: 32
- Views: 40455
I would suggest Ashtanga Yoga: meditation in movement + yoga nidra. A good book about meditation: The Art of Meditation by Daniel Goleman Yes. You also might want to experience Holotropic Breathwork. I currently do this with some facilitators who are students of Stanislav Grof, and I do go very dee...
- Fri Apr 30, 2004 1:58 pm
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Reputable Futures broker rec?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7997
- Mon Apr 19, 2004 6:27 pm
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: How much Capital to start
- Replies: 25
- Views: 37782
Re: UK Spread Betting Firms
Does anyone know of other ways to trade with a very small amount of capital, specifically from the US? Using the VeriTrade system? Trade the markets which have lower volatility, like Eurodollars and corn. You can also trade forex as well. What is your definition of "small capital"? If you...
- Wed Apr 07, 2004 12:42 pm
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Thoughts on entry price, and open vs closed equity
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10483
Re: Thoughts on entry price, and open vs closed equity
Thus, any system or rule based on a distinction between open equity and closed equity, or historical entry price vs current asset price, is logically inconsistent. It would, when presented with two identical traders with identical equity, recommend that one act differently in some cases to the othe...
- Sun Apr 04, 2004 2:27 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Dos and Donts of Drawdowns
- Replies: 23
- Views: 30745
- Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:31 pm
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: What % equity to risk on high expectation trades?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8031
if i am going on my own, i can handle a 40% drawdown, so i would take about 3.5% per transaction. if i am managing client money, a lot of investors who want really high returns start getting nervous in the 30% range. after several thousand runs, there is a tiny % chance that we will experience a 10 ...
- Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:35 pm
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: What % equity to risk on high expectation trades?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8031
- Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:11 am
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Portfolio heat
- Replies: 27
- Views: 29354
- Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:33 pm
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Portfolio heat
- Replies: 27
- Views: 29354
If A and B each have positive expectation, it's more desirable for them to be negatively correlated than zero correlated. That may be true only if you are a unidirectional trader. An example of this are the people who are IBD (Investor's Business Daily) traders who are usually long-only position tr...
- Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:08 pm
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Spread question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4125
Re: Spread question
A typical bullish spread the speculator would initiate by being long the nearest month and sell a further out month. A typical bear market the speculator would initiate by being short the nearest and buy the more distant month. This statement is true and untrue, depending on the market you are trad...
- Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:41 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Why don't these guys trade stocks?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16120
if you believe in the concept of persistence, then long term trend followers like Dunn will be more likely to trade futures than stocks. long term trend following is based on many small losses and and fewer big wins, so they are dependent on heavily trending markets. futures are more likely to act t...
- Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:53 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Length of Backtest
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5794
- Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:28 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Historical Data
- Replies: 31
- Views: 33700
Never, never, never use index data as the data on which trades are entered in testing. it is completely unrealistic. Trading would be a sweet beautiful dream if actual futures contracts were as neat and orderly as indexes would lead one to believe. All the volatility, all the guts, all the meat of ...
- Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:20 pm
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Has any one taken Van K. Peak Performance Home Study Program
- Replies: 15
- Views: 23413
- Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:36 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Has any one taken Van K. Peak Performance Home Study Program
- Replies: 15
- Views: 23413
Hi Alien, I have all those items except for the Infinite Wealth and Position Sizing materials. Damian brings up some valid points, so I will only list what I disagree with. How many people on this forum have violated their mechanical trading system? How many people have violated their mechanical sys...
- Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:11 am
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Question? Ralph Vince & How much to put on a trade?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12645
- Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:27 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Performance over historical time frames
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3752
Bruce, You have provided only your CAGR, which is not enough information for us to give you comments. How about MAR, Sharpe, drawdown levels, the markets you trade, the type of system you trade, etc. ? My trading system consistently performs from the 70s all the way through to today (in all return a...
- Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:21 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: equity stream correlation
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3173
- Sun Feb 01, 2004 7:55 am
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Finding CTA data
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3999