I think perhaps you have misinterpreted the meaning of this particular well worn saying, my interpretation is that this is more aimed at the people who try and blame their lack of success on external factors which they can control...e.g. 'My broker ...

Taking full responsibility for your trading

Hey mikkom, I've been working on my own GA project in for a couple of weeks now, and I can see why you are thinking about how to get more CPU on-board. As soon as one drops down to tick based processing, the process becomes very slow, I have a ...

Systematic trading

Elliot = Tarot card reading.

why people say Elliot is hard to learn?

It's Vladimir Nabokov, the reason being that I was reading a book of his when I picked the avatar, pretty uncool eh?

The Reason why 95% Traders fail

I see this thread has now degenerated to grinding though irrelevant detail, it's really quite simple, if you have no edge you fail, end of story.

The Reason why 95% Traders fail

No I hadn't heard about that, it looks pretty cool. If I was going to parallelize a process I would probably be more inclined to use Boost MPI (I'm using C++), since I'm already heavy leveraging other parts of the Boost library.

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I suggested this some time ago, I know another trader who uses GA successfully and does this very thing, almost like a 'meta-optimizer' or a optimizer for the optimizer.

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I'm doing exactly that now, the automated stock trading starts in the new year. I did a lot of optimization to make sure the memory footprint is light, I can also distribute across multiple processes and/or servers.

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I guess the reason I asked was because most longtime traders seem to agree this has been a tough year, RTM isn't working and the volatility has been dying away. This all got me thinking about GA again and if it was capable of finding something in ...

Systematic trading

Do you only optimize on large time-frames, or have you tried smaller time-frames?

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Do the models you have evolved for 2009, work well in 2009?

Systematic trading

True, I think it's actually a function of an open mind and logic how quickly one progresses beyond this stage. Beyond the focus on rubbish you have the problem of people becoming irrationally attached to erroneous ideas, people would rather defend ...

The Reason why 95% Traders fail

I disagree, it's not the focus on systems which is the problem, it's the focus on crap systems. But this is hardly unexpected for a site which is basically 99.99% newb white noise.

The Reason why 95% Traders fail

There is plenty of thinking and using ones judgement involved in automated trading. What an amazingly stupid question.

Manual vs Automation?

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Optimized Trend Trading

...the picture is again more complex for multiple strategies over multiple time-frames and instruments. Goggle 'epps effect'.

What does correlation mean to you?

The market is not a shopping trolley.

Myth Busters the Forex Edition

All standard oscillators pretty much tell you the same thing, you can stack them up on a MT4 chart and check that this is the case visually for yourself. The ideas surrounding 'overbought' & 'oversold' and the levels at which these conditions are ...

What is the difference between RSI and Stochastics?

Does this apply to FIX gateway clients as well?

MB Trading Futures - Introduction