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Re: system trader



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John,
I totaly agree with you.
My experience with mechanical options systems is not good.
I traded qqq options on the extremes of price.
My model fell apart in live trading
I went back to what I know works - futures

whats the 'real' results like?
PZ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Pretorius" <johnpretorius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jimmy" <jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Justin Fanning"
<Justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Omega-List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 6:55 PM
Subject: RE: system trader


> JF> differing requirements, differing capital,
> JF> differing technical understanding, different risk aversion,
> JF> different time availability etc. etc.
>
> >Exactly why it is impossible to buy or lease a system that suits me
> >and most everyone else.
>
>
> JF> "locked" set of trading
> JF> rules, is the rules are never revealed,
>
> >No way.  How could you follow that.  I guess some do but not this boy.
>
> I spent 4 years developing a fractal pattern matching system that I use to
> trade options. It produces profits on a par with any of those evaluated at
> Striker or Attain, but with substantially lower drawdowns. When I offer it
> on lease later this year, presumably you guys won't even look at it
because
> it will be "locked".
>
> Please explain why revealing my methodologies, and thus rendering them
> public-domain, would then make you happy to pay for them.
>
> I think only about 30 trading systems out there are making big bucks. All
of
> them are 100% mechanical and only about 3 or 4 are made available for
lease
> (never for purchase). Please believe me that none of tham are "revealed".
> Their secrets are also not to be found in a $39.95 book, or for that
matter
> in a $5000 training course.
>
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