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portfolio123
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Poll: What's the main reason holding back your investment returns?

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Options:

Lack of knowledge, experience or technical skill
Lack of time
Insufficent capital
Lack of discipline or systematic approach
Lack of tools/data
Failure to properly test a trading system. Ex: over-optimization, bias, etc.
Failure to monitor your results (poor organization)
Inadequate risk management
Too few trading opportunities
Other (please specify in thread)

View the poll here.

[Jul 29, 2005 4:30:40 PM]

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Re: Poll: What's the main reason holding back your investment returns?

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About 1/3 of voters on this unscientific poll said that their biggest obstacle to achieving better results was a lack of discipline or a lack of time. Automated trading should solve these problems. Marco, I understand that you are not in the business of trading. But would it work to set up P123 to give trading signals like "newsletters"? A quick Google search shows that there a number of brokers that can trade based on newsletter rec's.

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Chip

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Re: Poll: What's the main reason holding back your investment returns?

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Either the market itself or the screen I'm using has encountered a rough patch for the month/quarter/year.

I learned long ago that whenever I second guess my screens, Murphy sees to it that in the end I wind up shooting myself in the foot.

I lack none of the things given in the list. I've got a screen that backtests well, knowledge, experience and discipline, but I can't control the immediate performance of the market or the screen.
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