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- Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:23 am
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: IB's accumulate/distribute
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5853
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:15 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Mind set in executing an order successfully?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9575
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:07 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Dealing with Drawdowns
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7944
- Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:04 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: How Far Back To Test Equities?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3368
- Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:13 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: How Far Back To Test Equities?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3368
- Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:43 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Query to the System Design Community
- Replies: 29
- Views: 16560
- Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:36 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Query to the System Design Community
- Replies: 29
- Views: 16560
- Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:26 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: The Robusti family
- Replies: 16
- Views: 24053
- Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:15 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Statistical significance of a new rule
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3998
- Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:45 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Statistical significance of a new rule
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3998
- Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:16 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Statistical significance of a new rule
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3998
- Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:06 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Simulating volatility
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3383
- Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:04 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Can terminology hide a multitude of sins.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5261
- Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:39 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Is trading moral and ethical?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 39917
If the market is open to anybody, has equal access, no rules that favor or penalize any one group of participants, and nobody is forced to participate, how can the act of speculation be unethical or immoral? It's a voluntary game where the rules are well defined and generally well enforced/policed. ...
- Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:20 pm
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Interactive Brokers Trading Foreign Markets
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6823
- Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:09 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Skip trade if last was winner
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7817
Skippers don't win
This depends on your beliefs (as in everything in trading really). If you believe that each trade is an independent event, and that there is no way to determine winners and losers in advance and you have a positive expectation trading system then anything that skips trades will: a Reduce your long-t...
- Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:14 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: portfolio cherry picking
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6526
- Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:25 am
- Forum: Market Psychology
- Topic: Jim rogers interviewed on FT
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7772
All fiat currency has zero instrinsic value
All paper money that is not backed by something "real" like gold or silver has zero intrinsic value (other than it's use as toilet paper when it finally and inevitably devalues). The "value" of a fiat currency is simply a perceived value based on what amount of product or service...
- Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:40 am
- Forum: Stocks
- Topic: Asymmetry and the Short Side
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7624
Trend persistence
http://www.pmkingtrading.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/TrendPersistence.jpg The chart above shows the difference in up and down trends for liquid US equities over the last 20 years. Note that due to survivorship bias companies that have trended down to zero are not included. There is s...
- Wed May 30, 2007 7:42 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: Times you couldn't take the trade and how you overcame it
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14457