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Re: [EquisMetaStock Group] Turtles Trading System



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For trading commodities I agree. For stocks, I'm not a fan as I said. 
I've read a lot of contridictory articles. I just keep running into 
guys who didn't do very well with the system. 

I guess they didn't follow the rules.

JO



--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, JayTownsend@xxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 10/8/2003 7:41:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> kelols@xxxx writes:
> 
> > They didn't tell you everything. You can't make as much trading 
> > stocks using the same system and due to the lack of leverage 
found in 
> > contracts you need way more breakouts to reduce risk and insure 
> > success. 
> > 
> 
> I trade commodities, which is what that system was used for.  Most 
> commodities, including financials, have annual cyclical patterns 
and breakouts is a way 
> to capture some of them.  (Moore Research charges an arm and a leg 
for a 
> system that predicts the exact date of a move in commodities, long 
or short, based 
> on historical information.  You can pay their price, use a $50-100K 
account 
> and take every trade and hopefully, gain an annual 20%.  Breakouts 
can offer 
> much better.)  And no, that site doesn't have the final answer.  
But if you 
> follow or read a lot about breakout systems, you will be able to 
glean good 
> information on entry, and on stops from that site.  They also tell 
you to get ahold 
> of everything that you can, and read and learn from it.
> 
> Every trader is going to go through a lot of material, and probably 
a few 
> assets, to end up with winning style or system.
> 
> In my opinion, that site offered a lot of great breakout 
information that 
> just isn't available in other places.
> 
> Jay
> 
> Before you get too excited about the information on that site, you 
> need to do some more reading.
> 
> They didn't tell you everything. You can't make as much trading 
> stocks using the same system and due to the lack of leverage found 
in 
> contracts you need way more breakouts to reduce risk and insure 
> success. 
> 
> Some of the original turtles did okay trading. Many of the ones 
that 
> came after the first group using the same system went broke. Why! 
> Because they were trading with their own money and not the house 
> money. History is a good teacher.
> 
> I've used Donchian formulas to write systems. Many of the most 
> successful commercial systems use Donchian as a basis.
> 
> I'm sorry to say that particular webstie is not the last work on 
the 
> turtle system.
> 
> Good Trading
> JO


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