You are right, there is a lot of the same old crap in there, but I think you're approaching it from the wrong angle. If you're expecting working systems, you're out of luck (for the most part), it's more the little nuggets that various people give ...

Systematic trading

I don't know really, my guess is the forum just doesn't seem to see to have a good solid base of intelligent posters, when you mix this with new guys continuity posting utter shit any good stuff gets lost in the repetitious noise. We seem to have ...

What is a 'Good' percentage for winning trades?

Actually, I must admit to following that thread as well, it's truly priceless. It reminded me of watching the 'Jerry Springer' show, it always starts out all civil and polite, but you know it's only a matter of time until the chair throwing starts.

What is a 'Good' percentage for winning trades?

This forum just sucks balls now doesn't it? This must be one of the stupidest posts I've read here in a while.

What is a 'Good' percentage for winning trades?

Yep, it's all about overall picture, you can't take one statistic in isolation.

What is a 'Good' percentage for winning trades?

I would buy a straddle with a strike around 3 pages, that's usually when the bickering starts.

Successful Automatic Trading - Like Chasing Bigfoot?

Totally not, this forum is the CNBC of trading forums, it exists as a commercial venture for the owners, nothing else. That's why I can't understand why some senior members seem so concerned over the 'decline' in standards, did it ever have any good ...

Why are most retail traders usually on the wrong side of the market?

Well put, after a certain point, you just can't be bothered arguing.

Cornholio's Reading Suggestions

All good pieces of advice expect for 6, which is rubbish, there is no better way to wreak a edge than by telling people about it.

Cornholio's Reading Suggestions

Darwin in action.

Jacko's Forex House of Pleasure and Pain

Good point, spending a little upfront on data etc. can be a good investment.

The best Backtesting program?

As a side note: NT has the MAE/MFE stuff.

The best Backtesting program?

There is no best for free, they all suck in different ways. Metatrader and/or NinjaTrader are probably good places to start.

The best Backtesting program?

You're either going to have to back-test or demo trade, there is no third way. Both of these are obviously tedious and error-prone without automation. If you are going to do it manually, then keep the results in Excel (or something similar) which ...

How to validate a DAILY trading strategy?

What pipmutt says... The physical exercise metaphor for trading is moronic, a better metaphor would be juggling chainsaws, one better learn to juggle tennis balls first.

Don't play games with demo accounts

I can't believe the amount of crap people write on this forum (the above being a prime example), Razzle nailed the answer first time, yet everybody clatters on about all sorts of irrelevant shit as if he had never posted.

Why inverting trades doesn't work?

Over on NP somebody points out (and quite rightly so) that a lot of these patterns are due to the way order books are updated, not anything nefarious.

Algorithm oddity?

I don't know if this is of any help, but this is the sort of thing which would be easy to do Monte-Carlo simulations on, this will not give you a closed form answer however.

Random walk and Pascals triangle

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Random walk and Pascals triangle