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by rhc
Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:48 am
Forum: Market Psychology
Topic: Where to find Investors Intelligence Sentiment Index?
Replies: 5
Views: 10084

Never used it. Once again; From; http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/03/100103.asp . . . . the Investors Intelligence Sentiment Index was put to a rigorous test . . . The study demonstrated only a weak correlation between the Investors Intelligence Sentiment Index and major market turning p...
by rhc
Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:07 am
Forum: Market Psychology
Topic: Where to find Investors Intelligence Sentiment Index?
Replies: 5
Views: 10084

Re: Where to find Investors Intelligence Sentiment Index?

Does anyone have any suggestions on where to find data for Investors Intelligence Sentiment Index? A Google search that takes no time at all reveals that this data may be found from Investors Intelligence (obviously!) You can subscribe for 1 year at a cost of $249 USD or you get their historic inde...
by rhc
Thu Feb 28, 2013 6:37 am
Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
Topic: Indicators that are scaled in the range 0 to 1
Replies: 3
Views: 5276

Here are a few indicators that are scaled from 0 to 100 (or 0 to 1 . . . same thing) -Aroon (from Chande) -Directional Movement (from Wilder) -RSI -Stochastics -RSI_Stochastic -Ultimate Oscillator (from Williams) -ATR Oscillator -The 'B' Indicator (from Shepasvilli's(?) B & Q indicators) . . . ....
by rhc
Sat Jan 19, 2013 7:36 pm
Forum: Futures Markets
Topic: Milk Class III Roll dates
Replies: 3
Views: 5406

Thanks kindly for the excellent advice & suggestions.
Cheers,
by rhc
Sat Jan 19, 2013 7:30 pm
Forum: Trader Psychology
Topic: Seykota's Essentials Card - Revisited
Replies: 6
Views: 10876

alp wrote:What's "good" about these reads?
Hmmm, a provocative reply. . . .

However, you are correct to pick me up on this.
Everyone one will have their own definition of the word “goodâ€
by rhc
Sat Jan 19, 2013 7:03 am
Forum: Futures Markets
Topic: Milk Class III Roll dates
Replies: 3
Views: 5406

Milk Class III Roll dates

If someone has a spare minute (or two) could you please post the roll dates for CME Milk Class III as suggested by your data provider. (A web search at CSI under "market data specs" says "webpage cannot be found". At Pinnacle, Milk doesn't seem to be offered. So no luck there) I ...
by rhc
Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:09 am
Forum: Trader Psychology
Topic: Seykota's Essentials Card - Revisited
Replies: 6
Views: 10876

Here is a couple of good reads re: the "essentials"
viewtopic.php?t=5397&highlight=essential
and
viewtopic.php?t=8159&highlight=essential

I wonder what 'Slick Willy' would have said re: these Essentials? :lol:
by rhc
Wed Jan 02, 2013 10:10 pm
Forum: Money Management
Topic: What position sizing should be used?
Replies: 7
Views: 7604

This question has been asked before . . . . in fact it was asked by YOU on July 17th, 2012. Your title for that thread was, "How to determine the positions size for each trade?" Please check this link http://www.tradingblox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9666&highlight=kelly Perhaps the Hog...
by rhc
Mon Dec 31, 2012 7:33 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Can Google Predict the Markets?
Replies: 11
Views: 9845

. . . . and speaking of passé , . . .

How overrated & overused has the term “Fiscal Cliffâ€
by rhc
Thu Dec 27, 2012 10:57 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Strong May Results for Mechanical/Trend Following Systems
Replies: 59
Views: 36849

Further to my post directly above, this is also reflected in Jez’s results from his website. You can find the latest results here; http://www.automated-trading-system.com/state-of-trend-following-in-november/ Note that the first 5 or 6 systems in the tables are the shorter term systems. Note furth...
by rhc
Thu Dec 27, 2012 10:53 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Strong May Results for Mechanical/Trend Following Systems
Replies: 59
Views: 36849

Thought I’d add an update to this thread . . . . . From page 1 of this thread we see that the discussion centred around how, in the year 2012, shorter term (ST) trend systems were performing admirably and the longer term (LT) trend systems were struggling. This was as at June 6th 2012. It’s now ...
by rhc
Sat Dec 22, 2012 9:38 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Intra-day bars...
Replies: 6
Views: 5311

Re: Intra-day bars...

. . . 30 or 60 minute data. Does anyone have a recommendation on where to find this data? I do not need tick or 5 minute or anything like that Dave, You mention that you are not interested in tick data however it's my understanding that you can use tick data to create whatever time format you might...
by rhc
Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:54 am
Forum: Market Psychology
Topic: How do market response? when people get stress.
Replies: 14
Views: 47752

What do people usually do most? from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plan *********************************************************************** 'Plan' - noun 1. a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance *********************************************...
by rhc
Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:33 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Which plan is better in term of their performance?
Replies: 7
Views: 5561

oem7110 wrote:I just make up the profit number
lmaoshmsfoaidmt !!! :lol:
by rhc
Tue Nov 20, 2012 6:14 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Which plan is better in term of their performance?
Replies: 7
Views: 5561

You might also like to study this post (and it's associated 'branches')

viewtopic.php?t=6597&highlight=performance+measure
by rhc
Tue Nov 20, 2012 6:09 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Which plan is better in term of their performance?
Replies: 7
Views: 5561

Something NQR going on here ??
by rhc
Tue Nov 20, 2012 1:53 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Which plan is better in term of their performance?
Replies: 7
Views: 5561

I don't see any measure of risk (i.e. drawdown,stddev or whatever) in your two performance tables so should we assume you are not interested in risk adjusted performance? . . . :?
by rhc
Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:55 pm
Forum: Money Management
Topic: Shutting down our small fund
Replies: 43
Views: 37059

‘MarkS’, sorry to hear that news. Hopefully you’ll bounce back again. Trust me when I say that I feel your pain on this one as this last year and a half has been a difficult time for me as well . . . at least as far as trading is concerned. However, thanks kindly for posting another small piec...
by rhc
Sun Nov 11, 2012 7:01 am
Forum: Data Providers and other non testing software
Topic: deep data history
Replies: 10
Views: 9018

AFJ Garner wrote:http://www.globalfinancialdata.com/index.html
See if these people have what you need.
Wow!!!! & Double WOW!!!!
Gold & Silver cash prices back to 1252!!!
(Testing a dual moving average crossover system with slow MA=200 years and 'fast' MA=20 years would be fun)
by rhc
Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:55 am
Forum: Data Providers and other non testing software
Topic: deep data history
Replies: 10
Views: 9018

How “long termâ€