Recent content by eragasa

For me I find that general physical health is dependent upon excercise. As for the aerobic/weight-training discussion, in my opinion both are required. Weight training increases your muscle mass. Muscle at rest consumes energy on it's own. This increases your metabolism which allows a...

I think the biggest things the economists get wrong is that market trend towards an equilibrium value given a sufficient amount of time. Economists also forget the human factor that is involved in buying/selling instruments. People may buy MSFT because they like the software, people may buy...

my personal preferences: don't use a RAID system unless you specifically have a RAID hardware subsystem. Software based RAID in my opinion really sucks. I think raid for a workstation is overkill, it is better to get one hotswap drive tray, image your system, build the image on your other...

multiproc machines are overkill unless the application is specifically written to take advantage of the additional processor. If you're a UNIX user, chances are your trading software is written to take advantage of multiple processors. If you're a Windows user, chances are your trading...

I used to be a network designer so let me give you the low down. DSL is cool technology, I use it at home. However, I always had a heart attack when customers suggested replacing a T1 or Frame Relay circuit with a DSL line. The main reasons: (1) you have no guarantees of service on...

i think what a lot of novice forget about options is that they are a temporal contingent claim on a persistent asset. i don't think a novice should even touch options except as a hedge against an existing portfolio, with asymetrical returns (limited loss, unlimited upside). i've seen some...

bluehorse loves anicott steel.

your baseline needs to be the market price of risk (compounded annual rate) - (1 year t-bill annual rate) ___________________________________________ volatility.

True, but it's nice to know your indicator works so you know the strength and weaknesses of your indicator. I just meant that I do not understand some technical systems. The GANN chart system is completely confusing to me. I'm sure some people use it and make money off it. The...

expoential moving averages give greater weight to recent observation than to regular moving averages. if you are running a screen using moving averages, exponential moving averages are superior because of their computation efficiencies and "self-corrective" nature makes computational error...

I'm still developing a strategy. Looking at different indicators and backtesting them. I don't think backtesting them is enough, though. This is my current outlook, I've been paper trading for about four months now. And the results look pretty good. In any case, I don't have any real...

Intersting comments. I've always thought that volatility is more predictable than the return on the interests themselves. I haven't heard of any intraday indicators of detecting changes in volatility. I've looked at spectral analysis, fourier transform analysis, and kernel fitting. But...

I've looked at a variety of different shops, and looked at different offers. I'm going to see what Susquehana is offering. But I want to call my own shots. I'm not interesting in sitting around taking ticket orders, and trading order flow. Although I've never day traded before, I have been...