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You may be bored, but at least you don't have some a*!hole riding herd over you. That's the lot of many people, they are bored until the a*!hole again proves he's an a*!hole and then they are mad until they become bored again. If you want excitement, buy a fast motorbike with your gains.

Assuming it had any credibility in the first place

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I am not sure which method you are referring to. I expect the commercial software some people have discussed has full instructions. Thanks to those who suggested these packages. I currently use Excel for my record keeping. Getting the data in there is easy, manipulating it to match buys and...

I have a letter from the Ontario Finance Minister stating that the crack-down on US brokers did not result from representations by Canadian (bank-owned) brokers. You don't think he would be misleading me or the OSC misleading him do you?!!! :) If they continue to drag their heels on Datek...

I'm not surprised you got the run-around. The last people our securities regulators feel thay are answerable too is the investing public of Canada, the very people they purport to serve and protect. It was the same when I asked questions about their policy decision to hound US brokers. No...

I think it is fair to question someone who proclaims he has come up with something new to ask him exactly how it improves on older but similar techniques. Most people who think they have discovered something new are very proud of their achievement and are happy to defend their work. I was a...

I would not get hung up over the number 2400%. If the quote in this thread is accurate, he took say $3000 and turned it into $30000 over a period of a two years ending January 2000. The Nasdaq almost tripled in that period. I am sure many people were able to achieve 10x returns in that period...

Owing to the pressure of honing my golf game during the summer months (well, one has to keep one's priorities straight:cool: ) I have got woefully behind in my trade record-keeping. Does anyone have a method, or better still, for example, a spreadsheet macro, for matching and recording trades...

<i>Originally posted by Hitman The only FACTS in trading are price and volume, everything else, are intepretations, and for many traders, his/her own intepretation is good enough. </i> This overlooks the third important variable, which is time. All indicators are derived from some...

The float analysis article referenced in Babak's post is very dated. It was published in 1996 when day trading was much less than it is today. Then, one float turnover probably represented a much higher proportion of stock actually moving in the "weak hands" to "strong hands" sense than it does...

Some people have suggested that a way round the $25,000 limit will be to trade single stock futures when they are introduced. Don't know how reliable the information is, but a futures broker has recently reported in misc.invest.futures that the $25k limit will apply to them too.

Freeze or "blue screen of death" with an 0E error nicodemus? I get the latter when I use quotetracker or Nextrend charts. Apparently some combinations of Athlon and motherboards based on VIA chipsets cannot handle divide by zero errors. The only way I can keep mine running is to disable the math...

If you are testing your system on a subset of data that was not used to develop it, with similar results being obtained, you are satisfying one of the key requirements to validate it. Another major pitfall that many system developers find when they actually come to implement it is that they...

There may be a lot of good advice here, but I would go back to the original question and ask what is meant by "robust"? What is it exactly that you are worried about? Would you tell us more about the type of trading your system pertains too? There is a lot of difference between a system that...

....and posting your emotional tirades in another discussion group perhaps?

A customer will be deemed a "Pattern Day Trader" when they make more than 3 day trades (open and close a position on the same day) within 5 business days. As of September 28, 2001, "Pattern Day Traders" with greater than $25,000 in equity will only be subject to a 25% margin requirement...

I would like to second the Quotetracker suggestion if only for "best"quotes. I don't see why that should be too complicated. Again allow Canadians to open accounts. Canadian regulators are trying to protect Canadian Securities Dealers at the expense of Canadian investors. We need some real...

I wonder if some people have actually read the new rules and their history before voicing their opinions. Let me correct some misimpressions. 1 This rule did not originate from the SEC. They promulgated the regulation at the specific request of the National Association of Securities Dealers...

"I have also noticed a pattern, i.e. often stocks are not available to short when you would like to do so, then they BECOME available later." I have noticed this also. It seems to be more difficult to find shorts when shorting is what many traders want to do. I wonder if, when traders move...