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Developing and Evaluating Trading Systems

Submitted By Jeff Miller
Improved technology, more power. We would expect this to be good. In fact, more power can enable us to do exactly the wrong thing. This happens all of the time with the world's most powerful computer, the human mind. A...

The Individual Investor Experience

Submitted By Jeff Miller
At "A Dash" we let the big guys do the marketing research for us. Television ads for online brokers indicate that "leading investors" are thinking for themselves instead of relying upon help from their former investment advisors. Not wanting to...

Informational Power: Interpreting the Payroll Employment Report

Submitted By Jeff Miller
What is the market impact from the interpretation of data? It is an open and free debate, but there is a problem. The results follow from advanced statistical methods and processes. Even the smartest hedge fund managers, columnists, and pundits...

Fishing in the Right Pond

Submitted By Jeff Miller
Having a good trading method is only part of the problem. One must also find the right trading "universe." The original Turtle Traders learned this, and so should we. We have been getting some good questions about our TCA-ETF system...

Housing Problem: What Inning is It?

Submitted By Jeff Miller
Are we the only ones getting tired of the "What inning?" question? When we think baseball, it is better to enjoy the early success of Chicago's two teams, especially the suddenly slick-fielding White Sox. For several months financial television asked everyone about recession...