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    Market System of Operation

    A couple of questions: 1. What instruments or instrument classes is this valid for? 2. Can it be applied to / is it effective on higher intervals such as hourly and daily? A glossary of acronyms would be useful.
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    Diary of an LSE stock trader

    I've just noticed your BLT chart is MetaTrader 4. Which SB/CFD company are you using for that?
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    What are your Trading Breakthroughs?

    Thanks, I'm subscribed.
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    What are your Trading Breakthroughs?

    I'm both interested and sceptical. Interested because it seems like a general model that could help to optimize my multi-day trades on an intraday basis. Sceptical because my strategy, like many is about simplicity and waiting for the good opportunities, and this looks a bit like over...
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    What are your Trading Breakthroughs?

    Is the second half still on, I was looking forward to it, or is this more of a bollocking session? Jack, I'm pretty sure you once asked what a river was. :)
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    Operating System Choice

    I agree with FXforex. Practical steps and advice.
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    Operating System Choice

    As for hardware, best to check the compatibility lists provided by the distributions. Any HP or Dell box will be fine in most cases. Compatibility problems I have experienced in the past have been to do with lack of driver support for video or wifi hardware. Setting up multiple monitors...
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    Operating System Choice

    Choose a distro - probably one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution#Popular_distributions If running headless (on a server) then your criteria will be different than for a desktop. Three major considerations are hardware compatibility, package management and GUI /...
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    Operating System Choice

    According to the web there are 300,000+ Bloomberg Terminal subscribers: And from Reuters: Anyone using either of these?!
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    Operating System Choice

    I use Linux, but it's of no benefit unless running or developing custom software (that has no Windows dependencies). Windows is the sensible choice in most cases.
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    Huge majority of you here are losers? Agree?

    Your time might be well spent answering db's question. Become profitable - would make a nice conclusion to this thread. Do you have a trading plan?
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    What's The Best Way To Convert This Edge Into Money?

    Hard stop with every order, restrict order size in account settings, restrict maximum number of trades per day, keep only necessary/minimal capital in account (and use margin), segregate. Have a kill switch.
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    What's The Best Way To Convert This Edge Into Money?

    Keep your job. Automate (keep track of P&L with mobile TWS or a custom app). Scale up if it continues to work. Scale down or stop if it doesn't. Post your results in a journal thread - it could be interesting. Reflect on fair criticism (assume it's fair until you're sure it's not). The best...
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    What's The Best Way To Convert This Edge Into Money?

    This sort of operation doesn't come cheap...
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    Mechanical versus discretionary swing trading

    If the stats are to be believed 35% of Elite visitors are in the US and Norway accounts for a massive 10%! A demographic stat: "Relative to the general internet population, people who did not go to college are greatly under-represented at this site" and "people who went to graduate school are...
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