Traders' Roundtable

Yea, i hear you, i was curious/hopeful myself.

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Barli,

Its a confusing thing to go with trends, to " be" the market and to go against the crowd....i think they are all correct, depending when you decide to do each....You gotta know when to "do what" when...

In the past few years I have come across a few good traders, all of them discretionary ...

It's a funny thing going with and against the crowd and in my experience you got to know when to go with and against the crowd.

Let me provide an example that might explain what i mean.

During the first few months of trading i can recall talking about X stock or Z stock and without fail an more ...

I know this is an old thread, but the advice on this stuff was great. Dealing with trading a system is my challenge now and the advice here certainly helped...I hope new readers read this thread, its very helpful, if you are experiencing these problems.

Toby, if you are still lurking, how are ...

As of right now i would say sticking with a trend is a lot harder than i thought it would be. Near-sightedness being the main culprit...

Right now i am discretionary trading and trying to implement a near-term trend following system. The biggest challenge for me is ignoring to a larger extent the ...

You may want to look at c.f.' report Original Turtle Trading Rules. He discusses the concept of a volatilty measure.

At first it sounded like getting two service providers was a bit over the top, but my experiences suggest it is a very pratical solution

About Troy, i agree, i find him to a very good guy and a person who is willing to work with his clients to come up with whatever they want. So, when you can ...

I haven't been able to get data since August 6 and the renew feature isn't working and he hasn't responsed to my emails as well. If I were depending on these data for my system...

One of the things i have noticed in my testing is that there are some systems that routinely suffer drawdowns in the 55 - 60% range, but there are also systems that normally suffer 30 - 40% drawdowns but on one occasion have suffered a drawdown in the 55 - 60%. Using the simple math of multiplying ...

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The above website has a list of the performance numbers for CTA's this year. If you look at a few of the biggies in LTTF, i think you note that they are having a tough year as well.

While this doesnt take the pain away or erase the losses, sometimes its good to know you are ...

Your post, helped motivate me to pick it up, it was sitting in my VAST library of books i want to read. Bought it off of Amazon and was looking for a time to read it. Not time is better than now...

I agree, i like his book, i am on page 43 and i find he has some good things to say...trick is to ...

Good advice.

When i used to play competitive sports, i remember i made a goal to be considered among the top 10 players by my junior year in high school. Once i did that, i lost my motivation and it become much more difficult to get remotivated to find new goals. (And reality at that age i wasnt ...

This is a website that provides some balance to the enticing claims made on the TM website...

http://unstress4less.org/

Mike,

I just started taking martial arts a few weeks ago, Hapkido. Its a form of Aikido and a type of juijitsu. Obviously, every art offers each person something different in this case, I love it, since its all about redirecting and going with the flow, being relaxed, which i thought would be ...

I dont have any experience with that method.

I use Centerpointe audio CD's that uses different frequencies in each stereo head phone which help stimulate brain activity as well as helping the user obtain DELTA brain waves. I have done some relaxing exercises and meditation before sleeping and i ...

Gents,

To avoid asking the obvious questions in this new area for me...

Are there any books,articles...that discuss how to use options in the overall scheme of trading systems and trendfollowing? Thanks

If you are asking how to go about backtesting a robust system you might want to check out: www.modustrading.com . I read a rough draft of the course and i found it very helpful. It provides a great foundation and conceptual structure for backtesting in a systematic and statistically significant ...

One dream for dream testing software would be the ability to copy and paste some type of price development, insert the price data into a "language decoder" in which it would break down the price action into a variety of different code translations based on a variety of price relationships ...

OOWDG Data

I use OOWDG stock, futures and Reuters Forex cash data. I think the quality is pretty good. And the cost of his data is reasonable.

Customer Service is Excellent:
I will say that Troy has been a great help and is always available to talk on the phone. Pretty much any problems that i ...