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This post has an excellent point, especially for someone looking at those
daily systems for sale that, in some cases, show hypothetical results in
Dollars using years of data.
I wonder why Omega never thought of that?
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Lane <accumulator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 1:15 PM
Subject: PROBLEM in long-term sp backtesting!
> Remember that 8 contracts back in the 80's is equivalent to just 1 now. So
> who's to say you won't draw down AGAIN by $112,000??? Or $224,000, since
we
> wanted to double things just to be on the safe side. Your $50,000 account
> is going to have a problem!
>
> Sincerely, and I hope this is not totally confusing,
> Phil
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