ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is all data equal? If truth be told, I never gave it much thought. I have been using one vendor nearly exclusively for about 20 years. My fills are good enough. My closing prices seem to match what I see on television or find online. As long as t
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Improve Your System With The Profitability Rule by Michael Harris What are the capabilities and limitations of your trading system or investment strategy? You can ensure your system or strategy has a high probability of meeting your profit objectives by
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sunny Harris is a full-time trader as well as a programmer, teacher, and consultant to individual and institutional clients. Harris has been a speaker at many conferences and seminars and has made various media appearances over the years. She regularly g
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pseudo Stocks by Mark Harris The stocks charted in Figure 1 look for all the world like typical charts you might find in a chartbook. I have added a few uptrend and downtrend lines and shown how 52 (in the upper chart) seems to provide long-term resista
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pseudo-Stock Specialist by Mark Harris In ""Pseudo Stocks,"" STOCKS & COMMODITIES, December 1990, I showed some stock charts from a random number generator resembling real life to an astonishing degree and some simple rules for price transitions. Now, I
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Random System, Loss Control? by Mark Harris In his Settlement column in the January 1991 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES (""Trading simply: Minimizing losses""), Technical Editor John Sweeney says, ""I haven't tested a random set of rules yet, but I would
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Pseudo Trader by Mark Harris How can you model stocks without stocks? By using random numbers to drive the simulation. In previous articles (STOCKS & COMMODITIES, December 1990 and January 1991), first I demonstrated the modeling of stock charts usi