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Quotes from Timmay: I agree that professionals earn their living by preying on amateurs...

As returns on fixed-income investments decline I have been looking for places to park my non-trading money. This paper is very good. In school I remember a math case study of a bank using 'simplex programming' (similar to the excel solver tool) to move their overnight float into different...

Another good read is "The Dip" by Seth Godin. He discusses pullbacks and helps to identify 'dips' that continue to mastery; or dead ends for your plans. A good discussion of the book and the related decision can be found at: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/04/the_big_dip_ten.html...

Worse than useless. Market orders fills can be 100 ticks away from the last trade during RTH. Not useful at all.

Hi Tdog, why expensive? Do you mean risk/reward is not as good as other methods? Or, do mean the win/loss ratio is too small? Why expensive?

Looking into this for myself as well. Trading YM and NQ. Any mistakes or downside to leasing a seat? Tax consequences? Any brokers to avoid? Can a leased seat holder move from one broker to another easily? Thank you

Ok, positive stuff.... It looks to me as if the G7 did meet to discuss the current state of the dollar. This is good. And they all agreed that the state was very weak. But not weak enough to take any action, bold or otherwise. That's positive right? If the dollar was in real bad shape...

Working on this today. I have collected a lot of old statements and burnt out shredders trying to destroy it. Today found this company: https://www.shipnshred.com/ I am now boxing up 2 boxes of stuff and sending it off to be destroyed. It seems secure. Is there a better way to get...

Learn something: Stanford http://itunes.stanford.edu/ MIT http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/ Yale http://open.yale.edu/courses/ The Stanford and Yale classes are excellent. I download several and load onto an ipod. Always something to listen to... Something for...

I am not a Rand fanatic but the old girl did get a lot right.... You cannot expect mercy or logic from the government but you may hope for neglect and that you never become the subject of their attention. What about the cure not being worse than the disease? What about "We the people..."?

You can also try CamStudio which is an open source alternative to camtisia. Very easy to use and can record just a portion of the screen just as you viewed it. http://camstudio.org/ Good luck!

You might want to compare OQO to the asus eee which announced it will be shipping with WindowsXP next month. It is shipping with linux today. About $400 and very small. Video review at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=970nVbnIopk&feature=related (You might want to turn off your speakers...

All the great posts from people with 1 or 2 previous posts describing how great BioComp Dakota is without any performance or followthru. Ok, so what are you trading tomorrow? Pick your very very best system and share the setup for tomorrow. Posting is free, why not call some trades? I...

In his long chapter on Point and Figure trading Kaufman describes using other means to determine an optimal box size. I thought it was interesting but not enough to make me want to buy the book! It did not also interest me enough to program it in my charting package which would be easy to...

I agree, they are going for the newbes. It is just a few charting tools. As a business I wonder what they are thinking. If they do create a business there is no visible 'intellectual property' that they can use to prevent anyone from adding that feature to their own software. ButtonTrader...

This is fun. You guys can continue to 'personalize' this issue and it does pass the time. However, it is not important if Cocaine, Cold, or Swordsman have traded the 'Hershey Method'. Has ANYONE using HM met the claims of the 'Hershey Method'!!!!????? Has ANYONE using HM turned $10k into...

Great! Now we can see a commercial company back up the claims for the "Jack Hershey" method! That was posted well over a year ago. How many of the Hershey followers have turned "5 digits to get 15,000,000 in a year by trading every day"!?!?!! :D

Here is a link to a research paper on Point and Figure charting from the Queensland University of Technology School of Economics and Finance. "Point and Figure Charting: A Computational Methodology and Trading Rule Performance in the S&P 500 Futures Market"...

Good luck finding a commercial P&F package. I had to write my own to get something I liked. The problem is that most charting packages are built around a OpenHighLowClose data framework and hours:minutes:seconds and it makes them difficult to render p&f correctly. Most commercial packages...

Download TrueCrypt and install it on a 2G flash drive. TrueCrypt has 256 bit encrypt and is free. With TrueCrypt create a virtual drive on your flash drive and save your software, passwords and data on the tinydrive. Attach the tiny flash drive, about the size of a quarter, on your car key...