The Great AdapterQ: These days, what would you say is your average holding time
in a position?
A: Good question. It differs. If I take the average, I would prob-
ably say seven minutes now.
Q: How many filters do you have running?
A: Eight.
Q: Are these filters a result of your experience? How did you
come to designing these filters?
A: Experience is some of it, and the other is just tweaking them,
a lot of trial and error. You can get pretty advanced now.
Q: And you use all those tools? You will use chart ideas, volume
ideas and other tools in your filters?
A: Right. I’m not a real technician; I’m more of a momentum
trader.
Q: When did you start to move to more of a filter-based trading?
A: Probably 2004, definitely all of 2005. I pretty much don’t have
any staple stocks I go to, like I used to.
Q: So you don’t have emotional attachment to any of these
positions. It might as well be an A-B-C-X-Y-Z symbol in many
ways?
A: Right.