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Forum: Trading Journals

August 5th, 2013, 01:57 AM

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Kevin's TST Combine Journal

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Posted By Trovatore

Let me try to restate your decision point....

Let me try to restate your decision point. Suppose you're ready, i.e. you have a strategy (or a pair of strategies) with a positive expectancy (and some other characteristics which make it good...

Forum: Trading Journals

May 23rd, 2013, 05:13 AM

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Kevin's TST Combine Journal

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Posted By Trovatore

I would add one more point here, sort of the flip...

I would add one more point here, sort of the flip side of waiting for the big trade. Your strategy should preferably allow you to take a week off without the fear that the price of your holiday might...

Forum: Traders Hideout

May 17th, 2013, 07:23 AM

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Sticky: Introduce yourself here!

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Posted By Trovatore

Hello

I am interested in algorithmic trading. I have a number of non-useful beliefs which I intend to replace with something more useful - here are two of them:
1) It's very difficult to develop a winning...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 24th, 2013, 12:56 AM

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Kevin's TST Combine Journal

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Posted By Trovatore

B. I'd stay the course - keep trading as you are....

B. I'd stay the course - keep trading as you are. Don't deviate from the plan.

Explanation: as Mike wrote.

Forum: Trading Journals

April 23rd, 2013, 11:09 AM

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Kevin's TST Combine Journal

Views: 103,211

Posted By Trovatore

The ratio of the expectancy (average trading day)...

The ratio of the expectancy (average trading day) over the standard deviation is 0.17 in this case.
It's interesting to look at this value from the perspective of Van Tharp's guidelines to system...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 23rd, 2013, 10:19 AM

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Kevin's TST Combine Journal

Views: 103,211

Posted By Trovatore

I guess that's where Monte Carlo simulation comes...

I guess that's where Monte Carlo simulation comes on stage as a handy tool? I mean you don't need to be a professor of statistics but you can still make good sense of the results, like how likely is...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 23rd, 2013, 08:30 AM

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Kevin's TST Combine Journal

Views: 103,211

Posted By Trovatore

Hi Kevin, this goes back to a post of yours from...

Hi Kevin, this goes back to a post of yours from a week ago. I am sometimes a bit slow (and not a King of Statistics :))
Anyway, as I was trying to digest the meaning of the bands, this is what I...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 18th, 2013, 02:30 PM

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Kevin's TST Combine Journal

Views: 103,211

Posted By Trovatore

Do you mean this: if you were profitable at the...

Do you mean this: if you were profitable at the end of the Combine, that would encourage you to trade the strategy live?
- Wouldn't that still be a 'not enough data' scenario?
- And why attribute...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 17th, 2013, 10:45 AM

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Kevin's TST Combine Journal

Views: 103,211

Posted By Trovatore

Thanks, it's very clear now. One more question,...

Thanks, it's very clear now.
One more question, if I may ask. If you find after a reasonably large number of trades that the actual line tends to rubber band not around the average line but rather...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 17th, 2013, 08:41 AM

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Kevin's TST Combine Journal

Views: 103,211

Posted By Trovatore

Average line: straight or not straight?

The dotted red average line in Fig. 2 appears to be a straight line, which is exactly what I'd expect it to be.
The black average line in Fig. 1 and 3, however, appears to have a changing slope. Is...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 10th, 2013, 11:18 AM

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Kevin's TST Combine Journal

Views: 103,211

Posted By Trovatore

It's very clear now! Thanks for reminding of the...

It's very clear now! Thanks for reminding of the bar lengths, the 'max 1 trade per session' rule and the fact that each strategy has its own time window, not overlapping with any of the other two.
...

Forum: Trading Journals

April 10th, 2013, 10:43 AM

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Kevin's TST Combine Journal

Views: 103,211

Posted By Trovatore

If you had auto trading available, how would that...

If you had auto trading available, how would that change your daily Combine routine? Would that bring benefits only? I mean things like how many hours away from your screen would you tolerate without...

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