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im trading one emini es with a $6,000 account. forgot to mention that. the system takes between 3 and 6 trades a day and does not hold overnight.

then i tried one other theory. What if i backtested back 600 or 800 or 900 days back from june 30 2005 and then recorded the results for the future two months. then i would move up my back testing period to august 31 2005 and re test 600 800 and 900 days and again i recorded profit for two...

The things that I have struggled with throughout the years has been backtesting. I could take my system and over optimize and make any report look good. I was continually chasing the best that performed best two months ago. So one long three day weekend i spent close to the entire 72 hours...

are you saying you do not want the Irs to know who you are but you will pay all legitimate taxes? or you dont want the trading community to know who you are? one way is to set up a corporation in a state like wyoming or nevada that do not share stockholder information with the irs and have...

can java talk to a C++ api? what kind of hourly fees are you charging?

WE used visual basic.net on our end to interface to their C++.

equilizer mad a good point. spic protection and you get interest on all of your money..

i have mentioned this before that i trade at redsky. when i visited them a few months ago, they took me on a tour of the server and network room. ive never seen anything so fantastic. so the technology is the best. there might be someone good but not better. i trade futures and if i have to...

it is the political process that is preventing black babies from being adopted by different race parents. there are thousands of white couples that would adopt black or other race babies. they are standing in line. I know 100's of adopated kids who have became very sucessful at life. they just...

ive dont in many times but its just not worth it unless you have somebody at home that is in charge of your positions so a couple times a day you can check in. but to do it live from the ship is very dangereous. now the ships have wifi in the common areas and ive not used that. but after a...

i used to do business with transact. they were great but thats before they spent all their time and energy with trademaven. trademaven is a piece of crap as far as im concerned. and im speaking all the way up to top management. i left transact becasuse they promised me a api to write to but...

AND THEN there are lots of little inconvenienes like this. i have a individual account and a limited partnership account. I opened an account at IB and the individual account took 30 minutes for approval and funding. ive been working on the limited partnership account now for three weeks and...

i understand exactly how these work. but ill go back to another gentlemen who posted unless you have 100,000 net profit, its just not worth it. its just not worth all the extra paperwork, accounting work, legal work. its just not worth it. i did corp. limited partnership and llc returns for...

michael, your probably right about that. the average person just wouldn't want to do all the necessary meetings, paperwork, voting, segregated checking accounts without any mingling of funds. by the way, i looked at that legalzoom website. thats kind of a cool place.

if you are doing business with the public, by all means and entity is the only way to go due to the fact of law suit liability. but in trading, 99% of all fcms have such strick risk controls built into their trading platforms that very few would be allowed to have a catastrofic loss. so the need...

at least i can remember that from my cpa auditing days

I disagree. if you form a corporation and act like an investor and get audited, you will lose.

Any of my statements are made under the assumptions of trader status. I have filed as trader status from the beginning. but i trade futures and i profit from short term changes in the daily market. but its a dangerous assumption to think you can hide behind an entity to keep from being...