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<h2 align=center>8103JPY DEC97<br>
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<tr><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">Exp Trend</font></font></td><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">N/A</font></font> </td></tr><tr><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">8103</font></font></td><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">IndicatorName</font></font> </td></tr><tr><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">Open</font></font></td><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">0.828600</font></font> </td></tr><tr><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">High</font></font></td><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">0.829600</font></font> </td></tr><tr><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">Low</font></font></td><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">0.823600</font></font> </td></tr><tr><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">Close</font></font></td><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">0.823900</font></font> </td></tr><tr><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">Volume</font></font></td><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">7,605</font></font> </td></tr><tr><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">Open Int.</font></font></td><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">81,491</font></font> </td></tr><tr><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">Price Chg.</font></font></td><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">-0.00430</font></font> </td></tr><tr><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">RSI</font></font></td><td><font FACE="Arial"><font color="#000000">33.8939</font></font> </td></tr>
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> Having been an avid reader of the many posts here on systems as well as
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> a fulltime trader myself I have some questions and comments.
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> Most everything one needs to begin system development, as well as a very
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> good system  appears in my favorite book "Market Wizards" .
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> 1. Paul Tudor Jones--we have tested all the systems under the sun and
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> found only one that works, it is "trend following" and based on a sudden
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> range expansion, in a market that has been trading narrowly.
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> Question: how can you test sudden range expansion, on TS, how would you
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> program in "find a market trading narrowly", i.e.what would define a
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> market that has been trading narrowly?
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> 2. Here  is a great system that every good trader will agree works- When
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> the market does not react to the news the way it should go with that
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> move strongly.  Every "market wizard" followed this "system".  How could
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> that ever be checked with a TS type program? Or programmed as a system?
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> 3. How is anyone who ever looks at a bar chart able realize that one
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> day's action might have been more news driven than another.  Or that a
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> sudden rumor triggered a selloff that ended when the rumor was denied?
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> How do you factor in news?  Shouldn't all systems focus on the news as a
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> primary indicator?
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> 4. Professional traders seem focused on intraday data and divergences
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> between indicators,  how does one program in indicator divergence?  They
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> also use the confirmation of other related markets, how can that be
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> system tested?
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> The best traders I know synthesize information from a variety of
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> sources.
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> 5. Since moving averages are in the long run profitable is it just they
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> are too boring for people to use or comment on?  There is not a study
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> out there that seems to suggest the longterm use of moving averages
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> loses money.  To quote Marty Schwatz "using moving averages works better
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> than any other tool I have".