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--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Andrew Tomlinson" 
<andrew_tomlinson@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> Interesting. I come out somewhere in the middle. I think you need
to 
know a
> fair amount in order to have the courage to stay the course. If 
you've given
> yourself a good grounding in TA, then it's harder for some 
self-appointed
> guru to take you for an expensive ride based on his or her 
interpretation of
> some basic indicators that you should have known about anyway. If 
you've
> learnt enough to do some back-testing of your simple idea then 
you'll have
> the fortitude to follow your system through drawdowns.
> 
> So at least do some basic homework (e.g. Murphy "Technical 
Analysis...")
> before you start, and learn to do some backtesting. 
> 
> Oh, and be careful re Van Tharp. His mathematical rigor leaves a
lot 
to be
> desired, although many of the ideas that he summarizes from good 
traders are
> ok. And don't expect to be able to replicate any of his numbers.
> 
> Andrew

I pretty much agree. If trading was really easy, we'd all be 
millionaires. OTOH you don't need to read a 100 books to get a decent 
strategy -- not a perfect strategy but at least a decent one. I think 
the one thing we all agree on is that you have to verify FOR YOURSELF 
what works.

To that end, which performance evaluators do you like the best,
Andrew 
(and others)? I'm at that point where it seems as if there's a
million 
different performance schemes, almost as bad as the number of 
different indicators, and some guidance here on what works for 
evaluating a system and what doesn't would be much appreciated.

Good trading,
kut2k2

> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pam and Ken Johnston [mailto:milocat@x...] 
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 7:14 PM
> To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [EquisMetaStock Group] Should I follow indicators?
> 
> 
> I hate to contradict Superfragalist because its obvious from his 
posts that 
> he knows that about which he speaks but I have to offer a
completely 
> different opinion.  Trading is made unnecessarily complicated by 
most 
> people.  I remember reading a book about top traders and one of the 
> interviewees made a refreshingly different observation about 
trading, 
> essentially he said that the good news was that finding a good 
method to 
> trade that produced excellent results over time wasn't very 
difficult.  The 
> bad news was that having the discipline to stick to any given
method 
was way
> 
> beyond most people.
> I would forget about 100 different books and psychological 
consultants. 
> Find a simple method that makes sense to you(otherwise you will 
abandon it) 
> and resolve to stick with it.  Astrocycles-time extraction-fibo 
squares etc 
> are likely no better than moving averages-the tough part is picking 
a method
> 
> and staying the course.
> I doubt that there is any facet of human existence where the KISS 
principle 
> is more applicable than trading.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "superfragalist" <no_reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [EquisMetaStock Group] Should I follow indicators?
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > Yeah, I have a suggestion. You should read somewhere around a 100 
> > trading and systems development books, and then if you plow 
another 
> > few thousand hours into understanding what you've read, 
experimenting 
> > and figuring out how to trade with what you've come up with, then 
> > you'll be close, really close.
> >
> > There's nothing anyone on here is going to post that will help
you 
> > more than the above mentioned paragraph.
> >
> > If there was one good indicator--or trading method--we'd all be 
using 
> > it. We ain't. Indicators fit people and personalities. It's all
in 
> > what you can use, and no one on here, or anywhere else, can
define 
> > that for you.
> >
> > Go to amazon buy every book they have on trading and sytems 
> > development and you'll be off to a relatively mild start, but 
> > generally in the right direction.
> >
> > Read Van Tharp's Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom first. That 
will 
> > get rid of a lot of your misconceptions like entries are 
important. 
> > Read the other 100 books next, and then read Van Tharp's again.
By 
> > that time you might have a prayer of getting it.
> >
> > If you want easy--go bowling!
> >
> > Sorry, but them's the realities.
> >









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