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--- MikeSuesserott <MikeSuesserott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Suppose a TS user has
> programmed a little system in which an entry signal
> is generated when two
> indicator lines intersect. He tests the system and
> is satisfied with the
> results. Little does he know that, due to the
> "built-in" propagation of
> floating-point errors, the true intersection points
> are a few days off,
> sometimes too early, sometimes late, and he is
> actually trading a completely
> different system than the one he thought he wrote.
>
> Why use EL at all if one can't rely on the results?
>
> Best,
>
> Michael Suesserott
As if having triple precision would change things?
When the data has gaps and holes? You guys are
focused on one things. But the data is the weakest
link in the above chain now IMO. The solution is
helping efforts like those of Mark Brown with his data
archive.
Jack
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