Traders' Roundtable

This little arithmetical exercise doesn't prove one viewpoint or the other. But it might justify wishing for one of the possibilities versus another.

I am coming to this thread late but will add anyway.

I always struggled with the usefulness of isolating an edge ratio from the time I first read ...

Would it be possible to program TBB to take entries and exit prices and dates from an external list of trades (e.g. a csv file) rather than generating the trades internally from trade rules.

I would like to test an approach that would involve taking strategies I have for Tradestation, generate ...

Thank you sluggo.

88 seconds of my time seems a reasonable price to pay to generate the curve manually.

I am thinking about the process of evaluating a system - I don't have TB yet - I would be interested in whether it can do the following.

So here is a scenario with a question.

I design a system trading a number of instruments, each traded with a couple of methods one LTF, one countertrend. It has ...

Quote from Tom Basso from a recent van tharp newsletter -

Value of Trading to Society

A Follow up by Tom Basso

Van,

Regarding the question on the value of trading to society [in the newsletter a couple of weeks ago], I would cite a study I did long ago showing hedgers laying off risk to ...