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    weighting equipment importance for backtesting

    right... well i'm not adverse to listening to your experience :) do you have a custom platform?
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    Appropriate use of Simple Moving Average?

    its all relative.. all of it... your looking for values to relate to.. something to enable you to be a handle on whats going on... if you have a moving average.. you can see how far away from the average its gotton.. and if your in a mean reversion environment.. that could mean alot...
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    Appropriate use of Simple Moving Average?

    jack should talk to a few other people.. the last time i check time is not fixed.. its relative.. hence fast markets.. slow markets... the action is quite the same if adjusted for time... read Mandelbrot.
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    Livevol X

    surprised... i figured you were going into sales for them ;) haha
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    weighting equipment importance for backtesting

    yeah.. i hate to talk shit about NT .. but it seems like your right amibroker to me seems like a guy who was a developer/trader.... ended up turning his platform over to the public for a price.. which in this case is good for us... its 4 bills .. which seems steep.. but thats all relative.. if...
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    weighting equipment importance for backtesting

    below is the chipset i have now i7 2700 second gen.. not looking to upgrade really.. its like brand new a couple months old.. Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 8 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7...
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    weighting equipment importance for backtesting

    that discussion got pretty heated for sure.. haha.. that thread ended up being closed.. haha
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    weighting equipment importance for backtesting

    yeah it seems alot of those reviews related to Amibrokers do have substance... at this point in the deal.. i'm not set on Ninjatrader at all..
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    weighting equipment importance for backtesting

    the other thing.. have a local DB to access historical data seems so much more efficient.. storage is cheap.. SSd's are cheap.. why suck the data from a feed?
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    weighting equipment importance for backtesting

    interesting article.. basically.. the guy is doing the reverse of what a swap file is for on a hard disk.. .when memory is being used up.. it swaps a section of the hard disk to ram for usage.. swapping the ram for the hard drive in this case is a very good idea haha.. NT is very very...
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    weighting equipment importance for backtesting

    nice.. i have to RMA my memory ... i've got Vengance 8gigs corsair.. right now.. . and i'm sick of RMAing ssd's from OCA..... gonna buy a intel.. i've had these OCZ's crapping out on me alot... its like all of a sudden they just disappear.. been trading options .. looking to do some...
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    weighting equipment importance for backtesting

    umm hmm.. out of my budget.. haha... more of the personal computer for backtesting in excel or ninjatrader ...
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    weighting equipment importance for backtesting

    i'm sure its obvious that processsing power is important.. but i'm sure there are bottlenecks ... theoretically what is the best machine to do alot of backtesting on.. CPU is obviously important.. but how much does Ram play a role.. will SSD hard drives help.. anyone care to give there...
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    Share Price under Option (Put) Price

    a strategy is to roll and increase the position risk by a factor.. that name is a gamble..
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    what are some interesting/counterintuitive things you have learned trading options?

    haha that almost sounds like common sense.. You can theoretically get cornered in something that has such a large complex so easily.. spy, spx, es, i mean if you had to you could look for relative substitutes ..
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    Share Price under Option (Put) Price

    Follow your trading rules that you set before you put the trade on...
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    Parabolic Stocks

    the first candle stick formation is one technical.. volume confirmation.. implieds against historics are another indicator (hard to use in ninjatrader though) you should maybe cumulate stocks that are the talk on cnbc .. jim cramer and the other cheerleaders.. i can't imaging...
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    Share Price under Option (Put) Price

    my bet.. he's short.. if he was long.. he probably wouldn't be askign questions..
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    man, it's good to be flat

    how do you know the Rothchilds..? haa
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    man, it's good to be flat

    self help books.. are under the impression that you can actually help yourself.. haha which in my case i know to be untrue.. when thinking about myself my brain is very bad.. problem solving it is very good... separating that in trading is very hard..
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