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    Evaluating Exit Strategies

    In the US, futures traders are issued a tax form called 1099-B. This form lists trading income for the year and it is marked-to-market on Dec 31. You pay taxes on Open Trade Equity, i.e. on profits of still-open positions. Before the exit. The end of the year (12/31) is a taxable event.
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    Quant/Quant-Discretionary Trading Dilemma

    You got some insightful advice at http://www.tradingblox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5991&highlight= Return to research.
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    Free Historical Price Data for Futures

    Lots of people think CSI has the highest quality data. They charge money for it, though. As an example, here are their first five contracts of Corn futures, starting with the May 1949 contract. It's in comma delimited ASCII, the fields are Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume...
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    Forex Profit Accelerator

    Out of curiosity, what did you eventually get for it?
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    Crude Oil Daytrading Model For Sale

    How many copies have you sold so far?
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    Tharp "Position Sizing" trademark refused

    The government sent Tharp another Office Action, refusing his application for a Trademark on System Quality Number The official letter is attached.
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    Tharp "Position Sizing" trademark refused

    The United States Patent And Trademark Office operates a website which has a Search capability. Anyone can look up a Trademark or an application for a Trademark, and find the official status. I just did this for Van K. Tharp's trademark Position Sizing and found that the USPTO recently...
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    A forum to save images in

    Van Tharp's System Quality Number
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    "sequentially" trading different systems

    Instead of "sequential" consider "simultaneous". As follows. Lots of mechanical systems have stops that are a function of recent market activity. For example, a stop 2*ATR below the entry, or a "Chandelier" 4*ATR below the highwater mark, or a stop at the middle Bollinger band when entering...
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    Evaluating Quality of test Data

    You may be surprised to learn that it is a human process, not an automated computerised process. Computer software directs your attention to "anomalies" and then you, the human decision-maker, decide whether that anomaly is "real" or "erroneous". If erroneous, you decide how to fix it. For...
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    Funding an account with a T-Bill.

    Nattdog, do you mean that you traded futures in a large account, with equity fluctuations of 20K to 30K per week, and only purchased T bills every three months? If so, why didn't you buy additional T bills with the interim profits that stacked up in between your every-3-months re-ups? It...
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    Profitable Trading Ideas

    Just treat it as UNCLE vs THRUSH and be deceptive. Use multiple brokerages. Place decoy orders. Make it unclear what you're doing and where you're doing it.
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    logistics of bullion (or any commodities) contango plays

    Possibly you might investigate turbocharging this idea using futures options rather than outright futures.
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    Crown Jewels

    how did the trades work out?
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