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    What do you look for when backtesting a system?

    I look for a smooth upward account balance over time and I look at the win/loss ratio and the win %. I then model a monte-carlo style look at 100 different accounts with position sizing to see how the worst case account balance curve compares to the best case account balance curve to see if I...
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    Security: Best solution for your PC

    I used all kinds of free stuff and the first time I ran Prio I found that I was connected to two notorious hacker sites and I had Zone Alarm running. The first time I ran a rootkit finder [it only found them, did not remove them] I discovered all sorts of junk but the second time I ran it they...
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    This Will Be Great For M/a Activity

    Wow, the author predicted a recession in July of '06. That will make him a legend in his own mind when we actually have 2 quarters of contraction......
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    A cautionary tale for system developers

    Maybe it's just some jokers running a business from inside the company and unknown to the company.
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    Watch me turn 200 dollars into 5k

    I can do that without even bothering ET even... Seriously, i knew a guy about Crazy's age that borrowed $80 from his retarded [the guy was really, really slow] brother and started a business, the brother got half interest, a year later they had $150,000 in inventory and yup, the retarded guy...
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    Security: Best solution for your PC

    The solution for trading is a PC behind a whitelisting SPI hardware firewall, the solution for surfing is a MAC... once you realize that fully, the only question is which MAC :D
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    which one is best-suitable real-time chart software with reasonable price?

    The free version of NinjaTrader has pretty good charting and you can't beat the price..
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    RED ALERT- Negative Bank Reserves

    Illegal drugs, the damand is invariant short term, the supply can change short term but it mean reverts.....
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    OpenQuant - SmartQuant's new product for the retail market

    I like the OQ framework for that reason. I used to get bogged down so terribly in Easy Language [it's been more than a year since I was on their formus] that eventually I would cut corners and oversimplify the tests just so I could get something done some time before I die, and then I never was...
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    the why behind the illinois college shooting

    I'm not wasting time thinking about dead folk either really.. I hate these bleeding heart people that want us to be so worrying and grieving and sensitive about complete strangers... When a black crack whore hits me up for money in a parking lot I am supposed to be so very sorry for her...
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    the why behind the illinois college shooting

    I gave up being sensitive, if the prof got wasted so what? I didn't know him... we hear these stories all day every day about how somebody got wasted, after awhile you say "fuck 'em, some people got wasted today, I wonder if they were my kind or not" and you adapt by making jokes out of it..
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    Hacking questions

    I found a comment on this forum http://www.wilderssecurity.com/archive/index.php/t-152774.html that says snoopfree can't detect certain logging programs. They also mention other anti spy software..... I have a hardware firewall and a trading computer behind it. That machine can only...
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    the why behind the illinois college shooting

    Think about it, he assaults a bunch of unarmed and unwary people with extremely deadly weaponry..... from that alone you can conclude that he didn't value life at all... Lots of us hate the educational system, we don't believe what they are promoting, we don't like the inefficiency of it all...
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    OpenQuant - SmartQuant's new product for the retail market

    They are working on a 2.0 release that is supposed to address the speed problem to some extent, personally I am not too unhappy with the speed. Optimizations can be done iteratively, do a test with bigger steps to find the good zones then repeat it with a smaller parameter space and smaller...
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    Jerome Kerviel Is The Reason I Walk With A Limp

    There should be more on this ever unfolding story at theonion.com :D
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    another reason IB is the pits

    If you can make IB honor the prices you should be long those bonds!!
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    OpenQuant - SmartQuant's new product for the retail market

    Honestly, regarding the premium support option, it doesn't excite me. My thinking currently is that once I really am beyond the initial learning phase I won't need more support than what is already available... I'm in a "slow down to speed up mode", just plugging along and reading the forums and...
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    OpenQuant - SmartQuant's new product for the retail market

    No, it seems to be faster than what I recall with Tradestation. It is a lot slower if you click the "update gui" button...
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    another reason IB is the pits

    Oh yeah, they might be front running my one lot YM orders..
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    How to fix Social Security

    Actually, the real 800 pound gorilla is the insanity of all the people that went bullshit crazy when Bush tried to privatize social security... they could not produce any evidence that privatization had not worked everywhere else... and their only argument seemed to be that people would not be...
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