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what is appealing to large money is not huge returns, but low volatility. Nobody can make 500%/year without using huge leverage, and therefore taking large amounts of risk. You can't even talk to a guy with 100 million about 500% per year....

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CTA's can trade on the long or short side. They are only allowed to trade futures as far as I know.

only if he is allowing multiple entries.

Yes, assuming you are not filled on the 3rd bar.

This code will buy the open on the 3rd bar after 2 gaps down . The sell command is issued correctly and does not require a position before you send it.

How do you guage what is and is not priced into the market?

See this article. http://seekingalpha.com/article/66495-bernanke-isnt-finished-cutting-by-a-longshot

eFloorTrade's interface works with Matlab and Excel. I've been using it for quite a while now.

I've used allsportsmarket.com, but I wasn't very impressed with the liquidity there. May have changed since I closed my account about a year ago.

Not neccessarily true. This is a random data generator that does not produce "normal" returns.

I stumbled across these guys the other day. Maybe they can provide whatever you need. http://www.systemtradingforum.com

Agreed!!!

correction... Sortio = ( AROR% - Risk Free % ) / Std. Dev. of negative asset returns. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sortinoratio.asp

Does anyone know of any software that will provide historical data for trades at bid/offer?

Your dollars will be worthless.

agreed. You may store volume as well. Tradestation tracks upticks and downticks.

Yes. The requirements were less than 15 customers, less than 250k under management, and you do not hold yourself out to the public as a CTA. The 250k may have changed, but the other info is correct.

I vote this for thread of the year.

Nobody can afford to pay their mortgage = more spending money. I read somewhere a couple of months back that for the first time in a while, more people are delinquent on their mortgages than are on their credit cards.