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Hi, I enjoy the thread. Sorry if I may have missed this in an earlier post, but if you wouldn't mind sharing some of the non-strategy oriented details of your ATS development cycle... Like if you coded it entirely from scratch, or if you used opensource frameworks, TA libraries, etc...

ditto on the ball sucking... My free nasdaq totalview t-shirt was the best thing about it.

Has anyone found any of the seminars/workshops useful? I went to a few but none of them are geared to my style of trading, so I was quite bored. I couldn't help but wonder how many people there make their living exclusively from trading... Lots of curious people though, for sure. How has...

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Do you have specific criteria you look for in the management team, or is it more of a rough look over and "MBA from Yale, couples years in VC, previous small cap employers have done well". If you do use info from managements past, do you verify it and rifle through the history of companies they...

This is the best post I have read on ET. I could not have said it better myself. Funny too...

If you support spread/pairs charting, you will beat QuoteTracker to the punch. I would use Qtrader, or Qtracker, if only they supported spreads! Can't find this feature anywhere. Tradestation it is possible, but not very sexy.

Hi, I have the STC Securities Training Corporation Series 7 material which if you read around or ask around, is generally considered the best resource, which is why I bought it in the first place. You can see it brand new here...

http://www.stuart.iit.edu/programs_ms/financial_mkts/

I have heard of people using moving averages on the equity curves of individual strategies to determine where to allocate capital. This doesn't assume certain market conditions favor certain systems, it just knows that they are profitable. itmediaco, when calculating correlation...

$400 dollar rooms in SoCal are not that nice. I would say $600 minimum is okay if youre in your 20s and living with 3-4 other roommates. $1000-$2000 a month for an OK place living by yourself. a $500k house 15 miles from the beach will get you a dilapidated ranch house with 3 bedrooms, and...

Hello. I am looking for some Series 7 study material. I may be interested in whatever you have depending on the price (except Arco), but I'm primarily looking for practice exams on CD-ROM (from Dearborn or where ever). Please PM me and let me know what you got, and what you would like for it...

I thought I would post this out of curiosity, because I am sure other people on ET have been in similar situations... I am currently a small business owner who is not making enough money. I have been slowly killing off my clients to transition myself into the "working world" or "trading...

I never traded from hotels there, only my houses. You can expect decently large data pipes, but some latency which may or may not be acceptable for you, and will depending greatly on your location. The great firewall of China has some weird IPs blocked, and I would be weary of doing...

The subburbs of vancouver isnt exactly what i had in mind of nice places to live (i can't even imagine the burbs of vancouver, didnt it all get blown away with st. helens anyway?) I was speaking of areas 1 hour east down in the colombia gorge. I lived there for a couple years, and they are...

Im from Portland OR, and recently relocated to SoCal for climate more to my liking. "The 'Couve" in washington is basically a subburb of Portland and a quick drive over the bridge drops you in the city. Washington has easier income and property taxes than oregon, though sales tax is an issue...

so basically they just average the HLC of the day and use that data on the correlation.... thanks for the spreadsheet, don. perhaps mysticman or someone else can explain the advantage or reason to use logarithms such as mystic man does ? thanks.

mysticman, i don't pairs trade at all, and correl() is about the limit of my understanding of how to correlate prices. i only use it as a rough step-up from eyeballing a chart to see if there is any correlation. I am gaining an interest in pairs trading however, if you would care to share...

i dont know about the other guy, but i simply used good ol' excel and stuck 2 months of EOD data for each security in an array. =correl(x1:x40,z1:z40) pretty simple. I don't pairs trade, but as far as I know this should be adequate to determine a correlation.. please tell me if i am...

mechanical trading systems and discretionary systems are not as easy to compare as they seem, i think. While generally a person trading is limited to whatever one person (or a team if your a fund) can accomplish, with mechanical and obviously im talking about automated systems, several of them...