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Forum: Psychology and Money Management March 1st, 2013, 11:37 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 5,100
Posted By jacqudy
If you want your family to benefit from your...

If you want your family to benefit from your trading, why not just give them cash? Or pay off their house. Or buy them medical insurance. Send 'em on a cruise. That's my plan once I've scaled up and...
Forum: NinjaTrader October 11th, 2012, 10:30 AM
Replies: 1,036
Views: 390,098
Posted By jacqudy
Ability to overlay strategy results graphs (real,...

Ability to overlay strategy results graphs (real, backtest, optimization) on top of a chart (using % charting or a separate axis). Hugely beneficial as a visual strategy analysis tool. Alternatively,...
Forum: NinjaTrader September 13th, 2012, 09:18 PM
Replies: 1,036
Views: 390,098
Posted By jacqudy
Ability to display multiple instruments on the...

Ability to display multiple instruments on the same chart panel (Y-axis becomes %)

Intrabar-capable backtesting already. Workarounds don't cut it for strats that use tick-based or...
Forum: Traders Hideout September 13th, 2012, 05:21 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 3,899
Posted By jacqudy
Let me preface by saying 1. I’ve read...

Let me preface by saying
1. I’ve read everything I could find on the differences between backtesting, market replay and live trading, so I’m aware of the major issues.
2. My strat uses...
Forum: NinjaTrader August 23rd, 2012, 02:43 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,764
Posted By jacqudy
Where have all the optimizers gone

A couple of questions/comments:

1. GPU/CUDA processing aside, my task manager shows all 4 cores cranking around 80% when I initiate GO (and back down to single digits when run is complete). This...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management August 19th, 2012, 11:03 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 11,135
Posted By jacqudy
By decreasing chart interval (zooming in) you can...

By decreasing chart interval (zooming in) you can turn any chop into a trend - or at least a channel. Whether it's tradeable or not depends on your skill (read: is that in your trading plan).
...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management March 23rd, 2012, 12:05 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 7,682
Posted By jacqudy
Mining for probabilities

There have been some great suggestions in this thread thus far. I agree with Mike's idea about not jumping from methodology to methodology. But to Gary's point, if you don't already have a...
Forum: NinjaTrader March 17th, 2012, 11:36 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 4,390
Posted By jacqudy
Some TF stats and trends - testing the waters

I derived this from 6 years of 5min candles. Using Access for bulk manipulation and Excel for ad-hoc reporting and charting. Some interesting results...
Forum: Traders Hideout October 30th, 2011, 08:01 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 15,913
Posted By jacqudy
Interesting point FT. Be it human or algorithm...

Interesting point FT. Be it human or algorithm though, the existence of slippage means there's something there that manipulates the spread to favor the house.

As far as who's greedier? I dunno -...
Forum: Traders Hideout October 30th, 2011, 05:12 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 15,913
Posted By jacqudy
Thanks for all the feedback. Some very good...

Thanks for all the feedback. Some very good points were brought up.

Tigertrader, your response addresses the critical questions of timescale and liquidity. Of course the entry technique needs to...
Forum: Traders Hideout October 28th, 2011, 07:09 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 15,913
Posted By jacqudy
Buying the Ask; Selling the Bid - better than placing Market orders?

Most platforms provide the option (via key combo or button) to buy at the ask (for long entries) or sell at the bid (for shorts). I think I know what this does and I believe it's got a potentially...
Forum: Traders Hideout October 28th, 2011, 06:58 PM
Replies: 10,646
Views: 14,316,022
Posted By jacqudy
Hello All

I've been trading on and off for several years - mainly stocks on a swing basis until earlier this year when I switched over to eminis and narrowed my horizon to intraday. My objective is to trade ...
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