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now the job is to not be so critical of myself!! haha the story reminds me of when livermoore was asked to manipulate a stock.. It was leaked that he would be working with the inside syndicate to manipulate the stock. The floor took hold of information and started buying up the stock...

one key point is.. the guy isn't interested it seems.. thats going to be the big hurdle!

what about options data? http://www.historicaloptiondata.com/ any good?

"If you expect a crash there are much better ways to position yourself without exposing yourself to a curve steepening." this is exactly what i'm interested in! haha.... these ways with options.. or differently configured spreads in the futures..

surf.. you could clearly tell who was sweating the deal more.. Ackman was stating that they were wasting cnbc's views time.. isn't that was Cnbc does haha.. no but really he knew he was in a bad place.. even stating that he would be willing to continue the conversation off the air... i...

quite frankly these have been total impulse trades with no sense to them what so ever... i'm going to take your advice.. but i'm going to put my money back to trading options where i have been sucessesful.. and work on a system to trade.. instead of punting impulse trades when i think actions...

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i agree with the interface part .... the guys a tool.. use him.. if i were you.. i would put the guy working on stuff that doesn't relate to my current strats.. use him to look for new ones.. you could as a trader i'm sure generates thousands of questions to ask data and get him to find the...

price the straddle relative to what you consider to be the magnitude of the break out... i think asym triangles are very good indicators of impending breakouts.. thats from reading and experience..

if your already successful.. why do you need a quant? i'm a skeptic you have intellectual property that is up for the taking.. i'd be careful..

i'm giong to have to put the gun down .. gun being es for a bit.. and figure a system out.. -300 today

are any of you guys not trading a backtested system.. just outright discretionary?

hindsight is a bitch.. its so freaking clear what i did wrong in the large perspective of the trade.. counter trend trading a really long term trend.. one thing i have learned from options is the value of position size.. how much of the complete loss i've mitigated with option sales and the...

it makes sense... the "virtual" keyword threw me off..

whats classic.. is you coming into my thread with all of your positive suppport haha.. is it cool to see guys that have no clue what they are doing try to make it? then come along and sort of poke at them ... have at it buddy.. i literally am easy pickings i know... plus if your not really...

yeah i caught that.. been following the trading currencies against eachother deal.. to isolate a view on one.. was there any aanouncement that charted that just about 100 pip move up in the euro?

trust me if i ever make it vol trading/options... that means it doesn't take intellgence..

its just another way to account for the transaction..

BOT 20K EUR EUR.USD Cash 1.34195 USD IDEALPRO 03:56:28 ChartTrader1879190563 sub account 2.50 SLD 20K EUR EUR.USD Cash 1.34221 USD IDEALPRO 03:57:39 ChartTrader1879190563 sub account 2.50 +3 pips... just doing what seems obvious to me.. mistake was not taking that break up five minutes...

BOT 20K EUR EUR.USD Cash 1.34090 USD IDEALPRO 03:29:35 ChartTrader1879190563 sub account 2.50 SLD 20K EUR EUR.USD Cash 1.34130 USD IDEALPRO 03:42:46 ChartTrader1879190563 sub account 2.50 4 pips.. on that one..