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Strategies & Market Trends : DAYTRADING Fundamentals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brandon who wrote (14181)	9/21/2001 5:14:49 PM
From: fut_trade	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18137

"What happens to a profitable system that anyone can replicate?" Forget replication - any change in the market for any reason can make a profitable system unprofitable. With that in mind, one would desire a system tested over many years with few parameters - and the parameters should not be strongly coupled. That will increase the odds that the system will work for some time. "Whats the difference between a pattern (or a few) and a system?" I would view a pattern as a useful relationship or observation. I would say a system makes use of a pattern to give buy, sell, and stop triggers. "Its all trading when you get down to it." Even investing is trading if you add to your winners and dump your losers.