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What the "real" purpose of it?

I did buy and read his first book. Some of his indicators gave me good ideas to try. Also, I am very greatful to him for mentioning a book called Tai-Pan. This introduced me to James Clavell.

Wow. Just watched the video. Great stuff.

Good luck giving them away for free. Really funny post, it is good to start a week with a laugh.

Very true. There are decent number of options selling funds that exist for more than a decade and managing 100s of millions.

The start is very hard, and yep the track record is just a portion of it. I have seen fund on Barclay's db with very mediocre performance ( 5% ) per yet, their AUM is constantly growing. We had numerous meetings with investors, and the answer is usually: "we like you and ready to invest when...

Thanks. no I have not heard about this book. Will definitely get it.

There are a lot more than just few. Running a fund myself and having difficulties with raising AUM, I am learning more and more that track record alone is not enough. Being a great sales person is a requirement as well. These guys who blew up and great sales men among other things.

Please read my post again: "Traders who loose big attract tons of attention and are very likely to get big allocations again". A traders needs to loose BIG. On the other hand, I know a guy who lost 90% of 15 mil fund, and he is done. It has been many years, and he is nowhere near to being...

What Surf is explaining is correct. Traders who loose big attract tons of attention and are very likely to get big allocations again. There tons of investors (gamblers) in this world. I remember this guy from Amaranth, I think Brian Hunter, who lost several billions. His new fund was up and...

I knew that :) Was being sarcastic. Should have used smileys.

Yep. My point exactly. I am going through funds raising myself, and it is such a difficult and up heal battle. The amount of scrutiny is insane. It all began from association to Julian Robertson, but it is staggering that her wealthy investors can be so ignorant about how their $ are invested.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hedge-fund-prodigy-takes-a-300-million-hit-2015-11-09 Why do they even call them hedge funds. basically she just went long with a huge position and hoped for the better. Bull market is making way too many geniuses. The most amazing part of such stories is how...

Very informative reading about who makes money of wall street. The author without even realizing it felt into his own trap. He failed to make $, so he assumed that apart from few well known methods that he listed no one else can rack up consistent profits. There are tons of other ways to be...

Can you please elaborate on 6X max allowed to HFs. I have never heard anything like this before.

I actually paid it. I needed an example of certain source code, but could only download it if elite. It saved me few days of coding. It was worth it for me. Few drinks in a city cost just about the same. I would not categorize anyone who pays a hundee as stupid.

IB Gateway is automatically installed when you install TWS. Just look under programs->IB

Call IB and check if they provide near term historical tick data. If they do, you should be fine.

IB aggregates every 200ms. You should be fine with volume charts, it will still print correctly.

Nope. Switched to ES with fully automated strategies. Planning to come back to KOSPI next year. Also fully automated.