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Forum: Traders Hideout July 25th, 2011, 09:14 PM
Replies: 367
Views: 231,183
Posted By HowardCohodas
It's not a memory problem, it's a pattern...

It's not a memory problem, it's a pattern recognition problem. My memory and vocabulary are good. But my wife's face does not pop out at me when she is in a crowd. I have to remember the dominant...
Forum: Traders Hideout July 21st, 2011, 11:26 AM
Replies: 367
Views: 231,183
Posted By HowardCohodas
And then there are those of us whose brain is...

And then there are those of us whose brain is wired such that they don't get much value out of lines on a chart. I am a prosapagnosiac (difficulty in recognizing faces) and I wonder if that has...
Forum: Off-Topic July 13th, 2011, 02:31 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 10,884
Posted By HowardCohodas
I hope your dog recovers easily. I presume...

I hope your dog recovers easily. I presume Vitamin K was a part of the treatment. If the active ingredient in the rat poison was a blood thinner, generally recovery goes well if you catch it early...
Forum: Off-Topic July 13th, 2011, 02:21 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 10,884
Posted By HowardCohodas
Got to watch it when the doctor tells you to put...

Got to watch it when the doctor tells you to put on weight. I overshot my goal by a bunch. Losing is harder, but spending a good part of the day on the treadmill, even at 1 mph does burn the...
Forum: Off-Topic July 8th, 2011, 05:14 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 10,884
Posted By HowardCohodas
My Trading Workstation...

My Trading Workstation (http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHowardCohodas)
Forum: Psychology and Money Management July 7th, 2011, 07:18 PM
Replies: 204
Views: 64,073
Posted By HowardCohodas
I did some work on random entry many years back....

I did some work on random entry many years back. IIRC, it showed that a good exit strategy alone was not satisfying because markets trend only about 20% of the time. (I read this somewhere, but can't...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management July 7th, 2011, 03:15 PM
Replies: 204
Views: 64,073
Posted By HowardCohodas
Are any of you familiar with the random entry...

Are any of you familiar with the random entry experiments that dealt exclusively with exit strategy?
Forum: Traders Hideout June 16th, 2011, 10:27 AM
Replies: 102
Views: 59,050
Posted By HowardCohodas
In case anyone wants to do this exercise in SIM,...

In case anyone wants to do this exercise in SIM, here was the experiment I did, using end or day data.


Stage 1

Choose a trading instrument at random from among your candidates. I used the...
Forum: Traders Hideout June 16th, 2011, 07:28 AM
Replies: 102
Views: 59,050
Posted By HowardCohodas
I sure agree with exit being the hard part, both...

I sure agree with exit being the hard part, both technically and psychologically. I read some material on random entry (don't recall the sources) and did a lot of SIM on random entry to help me...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management June 14th, 2011, 01:49 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 11,612
Posted By HowardCohodas
Check threads on bots.No bots that I am aware of...

Check threads on bots.No bots that I am aware of use fuzzy logic but that does not mean none exists..
Forum: Tech Support June 12th, 2011, 07:04 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 2,669
Posted By HowardCohodas
My Journey to Produce High Quality Videos on Big Mike's Trading Forum

The purpose of this thread is to share my journey, describe my destination and get feedback from others who have found their own solutions.

I have tried several combinations of video capture,...
Forum: Feedback and Announcements June 11th, 2011, 09:11 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 57,348
Posted By HowardCohodas
You're right, I'll take this to a new thread if I...

You're right, I'll take this to a new thread if I want to pursue it further. Sorry for my lack of discipline.
Forum: Feedback and Announcements June 11th, 2011, 12:29 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 57,348
Posted By HowardCohodas
1920x1080 I'll produce the same video...

1920x1080

I'll produce the same video delivered from my server and from youtube tomorrow so that we can observe them side by side.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1zzpYFfVXk

Video of today's...
Forum: Feedback and Announcements June 10th, 2011, 10:56 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 57,348
Posted By HowardCohodas
By my standards, both of these are very difficult...

By my standards, both of these are very difficult to read if the details have relevance to what is being taught. I used to teach a presentation skills workshop for technical people and this is just...
Forum: Feedback and Announcements June 10th, 2011, 04:06 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 57,348
Posted By HowardCohodas
I had not tried youtube for some time so I just...

I had not tried youtube for some time so I just tried it again. The quality is much better (HD) than my previous attempts, but still re-sizes it to a little less than half size making the numbers...
Forum: Feedback and Announcements June 10th, 2011, 03:49 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 57,348
Posted By HowardCohodas
It would be nice to have a BB code to play self...

It would be nice to have a BB code to play self hosted (my server) mp4 files. Whenever I try to use one of the hosting companies (youtube, vimeo, etc) I loose so much in conversion and resizing as to...
Forum: Brokers June 8th, 2011, 01:27 PM
Replies: 149
Views: 45,623
Posted By HowardCohodas
Encryption certainly comes under the rubric of...

Encryption certainly comes under the rubric of opaque. However, how does one use it while encrypted?
Forum: Brokers June 8th, 2011, 04:26 AM
Replies: 149
Views: 45,623
Posted By HowardCohodas
Algorithms can be made opaque if this is a...

Algorithms can be made opaque if this is a concern.
Forum: Brokers June 7th, 2011, 01:53 PM
Replies: 149
Views: 45,623
Posted By HowardCohodas
Latency is often cited as an important driver in...

Latency is often cited as an important driver in making this kind of decision. However, I seldom get any information on before/after in terms of trading results. What have you found?
Forum: Psychology and Money Management June 6th, 2011, 07:59 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 4,385
Posted By HowardCohodas
I respectfully disagree with nearly every point...

I respectfully disagree with nearly every point you make.


Yes, under-capitalization is a characteristic of many traders, however, it is not the cause of losing. If you focus on the percentages...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management June 5th, 2011, 10:04 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 4,028
Posted By HowardCohodas
I am a self described back testing evangelist. ...

I am a self described back testing evangelist.

Back testing is fraught with danger if you do not take proper precautions to prevent what is known as "curve cutting." That is, tweaking with the...
Forum: Traders Hideout June 4th, 2011, 09:32 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 4,398
Posted By HowardCohodas
http://Howards-Trading-ETC.com/images_BM/Teach_SKE...

http://Howards-Trading-ETC.com/images_BM/Teach_SKEW_00.png

Never looked at it before. I'm not seeing much predictive value. You?
Forum: Brokers June 4th, 2011, 09:14 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,106
Posted By HowardCohodas
Not every trades the same instruments either.

Not every trades the same instruments either.
Forum: Currencies June 4th, 2011, 06:47 PM
Replies: 1,177
Views: 440,406
Posted By HowardCohodas
A navigation suggestion. All the posts provide a...

A navigation suggestion. All the posts provide a permanent navigational link. If post number references in the posts also had the permanent link, jumping around would be more fun.
Forum: MultiCharts June 4th, 2011, 03:21 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 6,395
Posted By HowardCohodas
Moore's law...

Moore's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law) at work.
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