Technical Proficiency

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Re: Technical Proficiency

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I'd agree 100% with that. It is **CERTAINLY** a requirement if you're developing, coding, and testing your own strategies. It is nearly as important if you're just studying a system's performance to understand how it's likely to behave in the future.

Even if all you do is run EAs provided by someone else, without any understanding of how it works or what it's doing, you need enough technical proficiency to know how to set it up and keep it running properly. Personally I would be extremely uncomfortable trading an EA with only this level of understanding. Black-box trading like that is too much "magic" for my tastes.
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Re: Technical Proficiency

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Yep. Sadly, it is 'black box' trading that teaches most of us the importance of understanding what we are doing.

I mean the 'Serious Warning' I place at the start of all my threads. I bet most newbies ignore it. Hey ho.

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Re: Technical Proficiency

Post by coleen »

I don't know if this true. I prefer to trade with Empty4 of course have no another experience. But this platform seems to me rather comfortable.
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