LOL. yeah it makes me feel cool when i say it. LOL

the most important system statistic > ROMAD

ahhh, my favorite question not long ago FF had a contest where we gave away my 10 favorite books...collectively, i feel they hold the secrets to professional trading. see http://www.forexfactory.com/index.php?page=contest and ...

Combining strategies

welcome to the forum! the trading "style" that you end up using down the road will likely be some combination of traders that you read about or meet. at least thats what happened with me, but then again i am not the most creative individual out ...

Combining strategies

LOL!! i just laughed so hard i almost busted a kidney... between you and dialist this forum is becoming quite entertaining

codification of the market / Genetic Algorithms

im not real sure why, ive never asked him. but i will next time i talk to him. another guy it would be nice to see more of in the main forum is Rob Booker. he also hosts his support forums at FF. that guy is friggin hilarious and he knows his shit. ...

Fully recovered!! Newbies take note!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!

Fully recovered!! Newbies take note!!

dialist, i fear this thread is going to turn into another 5min4x war (as the last 5 threads have). if it starts to get that way we are going to have to put the brakes on btw, glad to hear your trading is going well. ive watched you go from knowing ...

Fully recovered!! Newbies take note!!

i was talking to a prop trader at Morgan Stanley and it made me think of this thread... he told me that his "mentor" at the company just got fired because his annual return was smaller than his max drawdown. he couldnt understand why he was being ...

the most important system statistic > ROMAD

fiji, are they even allowed to use more than 1 MM? ive never seen that anywhere in forex, but it sure would be nice.

Calculating Acc/Dist

yes they sure do start working again. ive pulled old strategies from the trash more than once. when you trade a strategy day in and day out for a year, you learn intricately what conditions the system needs and you can sort of read the cycles.

Turtle Trading

at one time i would have disagreed with this Darwinian aurgument. but not anymore. one of my favorite quotes is by Fred Gehm > "You can not beat the market, but you can extract money from it for a short time." its not hard for a system to get ...

Turtle Trading

try these... http://www.hypertrader.it http://www.dynaorder.com http://www.traderrobot.com http://www.fxengines.com (fiji wrote a good review of this on FF, see http://www.forexfactory.com/forexforum/showthread.php?p=8675) whatcha got cookin, btw?

auto trading question

you know if you didnt mention it then i would. i had a lot of guilt about that day and that was my one way to exonerate myself. for me it was just a reaction. i see a plane hit a building and i start selling...its was just my natural reaction. but ...

PIP movement during disaster

wow, great analogy. i didnt know you were a cop!! now i know who to come to when i get ripped off by a signal service

PIP movement during disaster

LOL sorry man, i tried to "split" the thread to get rid of the "moving the market" garbage. i guess it got a little mixed up

questions from a future quant

disasters are few and far between so i havent studied them due to small sample size. however, ive noticed that disasters used to be a whole lot more over cooked. i think investors are smarter these days. take for instance the london bombings ...

PIP movement during disaster

when there is a disaster, money flows out of the country. investors around the world have thier pick of investments. if there is uncertainty in one country, investors will move thier money to another place. this lightens demand for investments in ...

PIP movement during disaster

hey thanks for calling me out fiji. :o you forgot to mention i donated the money i made to charity!!!

PIP movement during disaster

i really like Gain. thats the same company as Forex.com (who i trade with). but i didnt know that Gain allowed mini lots. this is great news i am hearing, ive got to check into it...

tradestation fee changes

there are 6 or 7 other guys on this forum (ie quinn, blue, dialist) that could lead the group as well. they may be less experienced with trading, but i dont think the leader of the group would necessarily have to be that experienced. they just need ...

Working together as a team