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Re: Trailing stops are invalid



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Exactly and I think Omega should be held responsible for losses people
incurred from people like Jake. Using trailing stops to exploit the results
of their systems then selling them to an unsuspecting public.

Robert



At 09:53 AM 9/20/1999 -0400, John Manasco wrote:
>Mark
>
>>From your website I got the following:
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>"2.1.22 % Risk Trailing Stops (Priority 2)
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>There is no warning from Omega that historical back-testing is completely
>invalid and overstated when using the built-in % risk trailing stops. These
>stops will only work in real-time. On historical tests they are completely
>misleading.
>
>
>