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Re: [amibroker] Can anyone help me Sort this out....



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Wayne,
Sorry, I can not agree that the history of the signals is meaningless.
I need always to check any trading idea from its past behavior.
Dimitris Tsokakis
> Dimitris,
> 
> I think you don't get that 'signals of the past' are in the past. 
It's 
> history and as such is meaningless. Hurst developed his work before 
> computers had the power to do billions of computations per second. 
> Therefore, the idea of backtesting his work is a waste of time.
> 
> The Sigma Bands we are discussing seem to be a derivative of the 
Hurst 
> Dependency Envelopes, so ably programmed by Ace... and much 
appreciated 
> too. I feel there is nothing at all to be gained from 1) looking 
into 
> the past or 2) trying to guess the future.  I want to know what is 
> happening right now. The Sigma Bands MAY offer some insight into 
what 
> the market is saying now, but should never be used to trade any 
market 
> by themselves. This information should always be used as 
confirmation of 
> other indicators and trading techniques.
> 
> Computers will never replace the human brain.
> 
> Wayne



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