Market Beaters

the markets, really beat up on them. Day traders tend to be really technical and want to catch every little move. I’d rather catch a large trend within a day as

markets and/or creating systems. I have two views of the market, long term and short term. Fundamentals

“forward tested” in that field).

I understood the rationale behind the model and knew that it was sound. I don’t actually do that, but I know people at Goldman Sachs who were beginning to work with those kinds of models. They used what I would characterize as technical models built with fundamental data. I think that’s a fertile place for exploration. So, you acknowledge the possi

comparing the same time frames. Let’s say you and I agreed to look at a time increment that we’d extend over a longer period, for example, a 40-day time frame on 70 markets and that we would extend

to bet on the breakout. But that’s what I’m trying to mitigate with the new strategies I’m working on; those periods of low volatility and false breakouts.

people who started with small stakes. But I’ve heard more stores about people who started with big stakes and ended

consider optimization to be the way to find if a model is good. I won’t optimize a model looking to improve its performance unless its performance is pretty decent within what I intuitively consider to be a worthwhile set of parameters to begin with. Do your ultimate systems tend to approach all markets

like it, but again, I’m limited