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> From: ribau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re : Sheriff's (part one)
> Date: 24 February 1998 17:15
>
> Admittedly, my post was somewhat flippant, in the flavor of the Old West
as
> suggested by the Sheriff theme. I saw your ad at the bottom and
remembered
> your recent post.
>
> To make a long story short, Pierre, I have been cruising your SirTrade
> Site, thinking of asking your help in building a system, but when I learn
> you do not invest or trade, I think I would be better off giving my time
> and money to someone who is active in trading. It's only logical to
assume,
> if the system really works, the author would trade it. Somehow your
reasons
> for not trading seem to be mostly fantasy. For the past three years I've
> been mostly a very short term discretionary equity trader. I use tons of
> indicators but have never found an automated system that works for me
> because of the number of stocks I follow.
>
> I'm curious...how many other Solution Providers on this list are not
> traders? How do other list members feel about buying systems from
> non-traders?
>
>
I would not have a problem. Some people are excellent programmers/analysts
but unable or unwilling to deal with the emotional rollercoaster that is
trading. It is not a macho symbol of virility to say you are a Trader.
Personally I day trade the S&P but I could not deal with spending my day
programming. I would rather work with someone who has a talent to put my
ideas into code i.e. to provide a solution to my problem of not having the
patience to sit down and code my ideas. They don't have to be a trader to
do that. There is no point in anyone criticizing a solution provider for
not trading unless their systems don't do what they are advertised as doing
or do not recreate the setups that I may have asked them to program.
The guy who programs the systems that run the space shuttle has undoubtedly
never been into space.
Ultimately in this trading game as in everything else the old dictum of
Caveat Emptor applies.
Pierre has every right to sell his services even if he had never traded at
all. He also no doubt has a great deal more to give to a forum such as
this in his position as an EL programmer than someone like me who has tried
programming and decided he did not like it. I can barely get around the
quick editor :)
Each to their own. Live and let live.
Philip.
>>I know what trading is, better than what you think, and my job is to
develop
> >>systems for pepole who trade them.
> >>They like to do so, and I like to develop tools and systems.
> >>So, what's the difference if the system is not used by the developer
himself,
> >>but if the developer was paid according to the results obtained ?
> >>
> >>Please feel free to avoid to reply.
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