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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 09:24:08 -0800, you wrote:
>I ordered a demo of a well known and advertised S&P daytrade system after
>seeing it's lavish website filled with the current buzzwords of "chaos
>theory" "backwards validation" "walk forward testing", etc.....it had it
>all...plus a track record for 15 years with huge profits and minimal
>drawdowns....
<SNIP>
>imagine my surprise when I visited the web site a couple of months later
>and accessed the track record which showed it made a huge profit during
>October!
>
>The system developers had re-optimized the system so it made money in
>October....i know this because the numbers of trades were different for the
>whole track record from the track record I was provided in my demo!
>
>typical system developers trick.
Peter,
Please share the vendors name with us, so we can ALL be aware of these
"deceptive" tactics!
Thanks!
JMB
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