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CIS does tick data, CSI only does end of day. Anyway I got a paypal refund, which is satisfactory, but of course annoying, given I have successfully ordered stuff in the past from CIS. But perhaps it is a warning to others, CIS will take your payment but will not ship the data nor...

Hi Anybody know what happened to tick data provider CIS? Their website is http://www.bayou.com/~smcg/cdata.htm I ordered the data CD a month ago, sent several emails and not heard anything at all from them. Also their "weekly update" doesnt seem to have been added to since...

Thanks for all your replies / ideas. Obviously a more complex subject than I had bargained for! I was hoping just to buy a simple put option once or twice a year that would be, say, up 20% if my portfolio was down 20% (or thereabouts). The analogy to an insurance policy seems not quite...

Hi Optioncoach, Thanks for your reply, My portfolio is systematic and trades stocks across the entire market. It seems to have the large upsides of the small cap arena. That is why I thought Russell 2000 initially. However it also seems to have reasonably minimal downturns and has times...

Hi, I know that all of you on this thread are absolute genuises, so I wondered if you could point a mere simpleton in the right direction? I currently trade multiple underlying long stock positions and I would like to be able to, in an ideal world, purchase a put option, say once or twice...

You might be OK with the top 500 stocks or so. But when you get a tiddler that pops 300% in one day (as I have had) you'd better be long that one! I cannot see how anything but the most liquid intruments would ever be worth shorting on a risk/reward basis for a purely directional play.

Does anyone know what is the CORRECT opening price for the day session on nasdaq stocks? Often a number of data sources (both free and paid for) will AGREE a certain price for a stock's open (daily data, nothing fancy). All fine and dandy, except the official open according to NASDAQ (eg...

http://www.data-recovery-software.net/ rstudio is the bees knees. I had a hard drive that would work for an hour before (I guess, overheating?) not working. Hooked it up as a second drive, and over a four day period I imaged a quarter of it at a time using the imaging by sector tool...

looks to me like a simple system (they are the best sometimes). Something like: buy x% below the open. sell when you get another open that is higher than entry price. Or sell regardless after 10 days. No stops. Am I warm ? :)

Princess Di, Versace and Freddie Mercury up before the pearly gates. Heaven full that year so only one can be admitted. Each asked what they would bring to heaven in the way of skills. V says he will make pretty clothes for everyone. FM says he will hold free concerts. PD doesnt...

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Reasons for me (as I used to trade CME): 1. My bank grades amount of money in high paying money market accounts. So to keep a good solid rate of 4-5% I try to keep as much as possible there. Therefore I want mimumal amount in broker accounts paying no/little interest. I just got a "wage"...