Recent content by HoundDogOne

The above "Routing Report" is from 2003... but the point made stands. 2003 is post decimalization... so not all that much has changed. Def: "On the cash side, all orders are filled at or better than the NBBO." To address this statement: (1) There is no official NBBO. (2) IB...

This is not enough information to give an answer. If you cannot even apply high school stats... Like Standard Deviation and Confidence Intervals to your data... Then you should not be trading... Unless to NEED to give away your money to rich brokers and traders.

I have never claimed that IB is doing anything illegal... Just taking advantage of a Regulatory System that is full of gaping holes. Def, here's the IB SEC/NASD "Quarterly Routing Report". http://www.interactivebrokers.ca/download/routing06-30-03.pdf My ** main point ** has always...

This premise is false. The first problem with all mechanical systems... Is they fail under the weight of 4 or 5 SD events... And you take BIG losses. By definition... No AI "adaptive/learning system" can handle rare events... Like the crisis of last 6 months... Which happens...

The software has little value... It's off-the-shelf stuff with some modification... One talented programmer could clone ET is 3 months. What makes ET work is "critical mass". Once you hit 5,000 or 10,000 "members"... It just keeps growing on to the current 80,000. The HUGE barrier to...

You are the biggest idiot yet. World class nut.

Matador funds lost > 75% and were liquidated. Victor is down to "trading his own account"... see last page of this article. Victor may be a great short-term trader... But he has NO CLUE about risk management. The guy was selling volatility for years at all-time lows. The next financial...

Anybody running a profitable trading business... Is usually highly specialized and experienced... And would have ZERO interest in random "trading systems". Like I've been coming here for 3 years... And have ZERO interest in what people are ** trying to trade **... But I occasionally get...

I've been using gmail for about 3 years... And spam is just a distant memory. Either Google's spam filters are exceptional... Or spammers don't bother gmail.com... Perhaps because Google's hackers will take them out one way or another. I cannot even imagine wrestling with a Stone Age...

A Vegas blackjack dealer makes $205K a year. A person would have to be NUTS... To take a big paycut and trade for Bright.

See? There is a REAL opportunity cost to those that hope to trade for a living.

Basically... Unless you are a Pro Bond Trader... STFU... Because amateur speculation is worthless. I trade bonds everyday... And the VAST MAJORITY of the banks and investment dealers that are "in trouble"... Are yielding between 7.5% and 8.2%... Specifically C, BAC, MS, MER, DB, ING...

Good analysis. The only thing that matters for a place like this... Is traffic... and ad-clicks generated by that traffic. The business model here is to maximize traffic at any cost... Totally irregardless of quality. Assuming your traffic stats are OK... I would put the monthly...

Most people are poor... Because keeping track of millions of dollars... Is too much of a hassle.

What is wrong with this picture? (1) A claim of 20x in one year is not credible... And could ONLY be done with an insane ultra-high risk strategy. (2) People who make this claim... Are not aware of the existence of Audited Financial Statements... And actually come to this cesspool for...