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    Holding Oil for speculative reason is illegal from tomorrow .....

    What happens when this headline pops up on CNN one day ? I think a long time ago they also made it illegal to own gold.... so why not oil ? In my point of view that would cause the oil price to crash and the population would be happy that speculators finally get hurt. What do you think of a...
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    Statistical Tests on Systems Books ?

    buy the books of Thomas Stridsman -- they are the best on system trading .... by far
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    Multicharts User Thread

    I tell you I love TS2000i and its global server - i am using TradeStation since 1993 - I even bought system writer plus from omega research from Bill Cruz directly in person at his Omega headquarters in Florida. Then Omega became a broker and i had to use their own data which was unacceptable to...
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    Multicharts User Thread

    I am testing multicharts Beta 3 version and i complained about loading speed of charts in the past - I must say that is resolved -- it loads charts very fast now. Now i need the tracking window to trace positions and orders and then i can finally switch from ts2000i to Multicharts Good work !
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    Multicharts User Thread

    I have a strange question: When i install multicharts my firewall gives the following warning: " tsserver is trying to communicate with c:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe by opening its process" Why needs the tsserver.exe access to my aim.exe which is the aol instant messenger ?
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    Multicharts User Thread

    where do i get the 3.0 beta ?
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    Multicharts User Thread

    where can i download and test version3.0 ?
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    Multicharts User Thread

    However sometimes ticks get lost from esignal and one has to reload the chart to fill the loast ticks and when you run 20 charts then it takes forever -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could you please explain why...
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    Multicharts User Thread

    I am testing this software at the moment and will write a preliminary report now: First of all this software has big potential - congratulations. Here are my findings: 1. As discussed above one of the biggest weaknesses is the time it takes to load the charts. Many systematic oriented...
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    Multicharts User Thread

    Dear Andrew, I am testing the newest version of Multicharts and i like it very much. I am a long time user of TS2000i and i dont use IB as a broker. What I am missing is a tracking window where i can see my open orders, filled orders and positions. Similar to the one in TS2000i. I know you...
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    Software for historical testing of pair trading

    I am looking for a software that can historically test trading stratgies on pair trading. Lets say correlation between two stocks is very high and gets out of sync for a while. Normally traders sell one and buy the other. But how much profit does that really generate ? What are the drawdowns of...
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    Tradestation 8.3

    is TS 8 with owndata and esignal as stable as TS2000i with esignal ? Or has it big disadvantages ?
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    Renaissance Technologies down 25 % ??

    really dont know -- even for me hard to believe
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    Renaissance Technologies down 25 % ??

    I just heard a rumour from a good friend in the US that Jim Simon's Fund is down 25 % and he basically wrote options all those years to make those huge returns . Has anybody heard something like that also ?
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    Mega capital outflow will lead to crash

    here we go ...... and gold and silver also down !!
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    Mega capital outflow will lead to crash

    probably a lot of hedge funds will make money on this but a lot will go bust and thus endanger the banks who financed both the good and bad hedge funds. As a result banks get hammered and with it the market as a whole. Also financial institutions will liquidate all kinds of assets to meet their...
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    Mega capital outflow will lead to crash

    For sure yen carry trades
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    Mega capital outflow will lead to crash

    Today is the last day for many hedge funds to accept withdrawals per end of September. A lot of times the 45 day rule is applied to allow investors to withdraw money per end of the third quarter. That might become a huge problem for many hedge funds because they need to liquidate positions...
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