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Indicator Fascination

Systems Trading | November 7th, 2009

Neal T. Weintraub had a great line:

“You will run out of money before a guru runs out of indicators…”

Meaning, don’t get caught up looking for the perfect entry or the magic entry indicator. It is a waste of time. Find a robust trading system and use discipline. That is the best bet.

Note: No vulgarity or ugly attacks. There are other places for that.

  • robust trading system

    ” Find a robust trading system and use discipline”
    I must have read this type os comment a thousdand times on blogs or in articles.
    The problem is noboby ever mentions a robust tradig system or where to get one. You could buy one of the 10,000 books out there but I dont have the money to test if they are BS or not and forget trying to fiqure out what most of them are talking about.
    Nothing personal but your advice is usless.

  • http://michaelcovel.com Michael Covel

    My advice here comes in the context of my (2) books and film. You may want to brush up some. Also, if you are defeated, well, you might want to stop now.

  • Peters

    If you don’t have money to test a trading system then trend following is not for you. Trend following is all about back testing and analyzing past data. It pretty much calls for you doing your own homework!

  • Jamal Chahboune

    There’s a great quote from Scott Fornham on indicators:

    “I didn’t want to be bogged down with indicators because where would it stop? More and more and more to try and predict the unpredictable. That seemed to me to be a losing proposition. Who would I blame when things went wrong? The 5 or 10 indicators that said it was a sure thing? No, don’t go down that route”

    And to the guy who’s complaining….learn how to trade you lazy fat american, no one said success was easy!

  • Michael Covel

    Jamal, Americans may indeed be fat, but I have not seen evidence yet that they are any more lazy over any other group outside of the U.S.!

  • http://pages.sbcglobal.net/acom Ken

    Who says you need money to test a trading system? You don’t. You can get free data, and there are even free backtesting tools provided by the online brokerages. If you dont like those you can learn a programming language with free resources online. All you have to do is look around…


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