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  • Date: 5/19/13 1:00 PM
  • Number: 243194
  • Recommendations: 12
Since this screen seems to have put a little new life into the board, here's what's been picked:

 3 Jan 1989     NOZ UST SPF GNI DTE CCL PGL F GGC SYN CWE BRG SPS HAN MO ROL PE AHP MMC WDFC
 3 Jul 1989     GNI SPF UST DTE BTI PD

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  • Date: 5/19/13 12:57 PM
  • Number: 243193
  • Recommendations: 2
I apologize in advance for the naive question, as I am sure this has been explained already, but what does one need to do (or subscribe to) to be able to generate the actual historical screen picks? Thanks!

Historical picks show up
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  • Date: 5/17/13 12:36 AM
  • Number: 243127
  • Recommendations: 5
As I've occasionally mentioned before, I've lately been trading volatility futures ETFs. Low margin rates have helped with some tax optimization...

Normally I'm short volatility, sometimes I'm long. So I used to mostly hold SVXY with
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  • Date: 5/13/13 6:36 PM
  • Number: 243036
  • Recommendations: 1
2. Which approach do you think is better: (a) skip the Canadian picks, and go deeper into the screen, or (b) buy the Canadian picks and send 15% of dividends up north? (c) Or, what?

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  • Date: 3/15/13 11:44 PM
  • Number: 242362
  • Recommendations: 13
You need to be very careful that doing HTD is better than not. It can be rather difficult to test accurately.

Nah, not too hard. Here's my favorite HTD, tested under some faily extreme conditions:
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  • Date: 2/21/13 12:54 PM
  • Number: 241777
  • Recommendations: 3
gtr1.backtest.org has been unreachable for at least 5 - 6 hours now.

The server rebooted last night, and other things on it are up. But I got my first taste of a restart of the backtest virtual
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  • Date: 2/19/13 10:47 AM
  • Number: 241707
  • Recommendations: 4
RE:--"does anyone want to improve their investment returns"? Anyone who doesn't reply with a very strong "YES" is not being "real".

Anyone who doesn't reply with a roll of the eyes and a sigh is ...
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  • Date: 1/26/13 10:23 PM
  • Number: 241291
  • Recommendations: 3
I was told that I needed 40+ recs to get this
screen published.

It's a strange way to decide what screens work. I guess it fits the spirit of MI - purely numerical and all that. But I prefer the whole hazy and unofficial
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  • Date: 1/17/13 2:42 PM
  • Number: 241140
  • Recommendations: 0
So buy SPY and write calls if this is true?

No point being directional about it - just write both the calls and puts. But you have to be mighty sure you're right, with volatility so low.

- Jamie
  • Date: 1/12/13 12:23 PM
  • Number: 241063
  • Recommendations: 19
The results reported by the OP (gritton) are for 10 stocks in each screen. From reading a number of posts, it appears that a typical user here would use less stocks in each screen, maybe 3-5, in a blend of several screens; and this is supposed to
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