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Notes on trading system design and the pursuit of automation

Forecasting and Nuance, 12/30/05

I took chess lessons for a year from 'The Grandmaster' all the while thinking about the markets, trading and trading systems. What I learned from those lessons was the power of nuance - the cascading insights brought by experience and the continuous pursuit of a single objective.

I continually search for the next insight now, the nuance that means just a bit of an edge for just a little while longer.

Today, I saw this:

"Different forecasting methods for different weather scenarios."

Now isn't that interesting...

Henry Carstens
Vertical Solutions
carstens@verticalsolutions.com