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    Tell me about your Uncle Point

    I think the point is that pre-determined stops aren't 100% secure. Stuff happens. Ya know?
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    Mugged . .

    Highly doubt it. I don't really dress nice to work. My briefcase sorta looks business style though. If I was spending time casing armed robbery victims I'd go for bigger prospects. I mean he got my comp. at most 1200 dollars, it was password protected . . But that flashdrive you can...
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    Define the word SYSTEM as it relates to your trading

    This is a crucial point that separates one kind of system from others. If you let a indicator like MACD or whatever, dictate which market to trade then its really like a scanner mor than a system. Other systems have more focus on specific markets.
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    Correlation Analysis

    So your suggestion is to line up each days percent change in two columns in excel. Then run CORREL function?
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    Tell me about your Uncle Point

    First it doesn't make sense to have an "uncle point" concerning your overall capital. How would ever recover your losses? An uncle point in each trade or an uncle point in a certain market or particular trading system makes a little more sense.
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    Correlation Analysis

    I'm not really following what you're saying. Sorry. Let's say ND is at 2036.5 gold is at 651.30. What's the next step?
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    Tell me about your Uncle Point

    If you've got a ton of capital, and we're only talking about one trade - 1 percent can be a lot . . even too much. If we're talking about total assests in trade and your corresponding uncle point in that trade . . well that's different. What are we talking about exactly?
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    Mugged . .

    I had the unfortunate experience of being mugged last week. Late Thursday night I was going home late from the office. Theres a short walk from the train to my apt, decent neighborhood with lights etc. crimewatch, but this late model chevy malibu stopped alongside of me and this guy got out...
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    Correlation Analysis

    Let's say I wanted to test two commodities to see how much they correlated over time. What's the starting point? I mean I could take today's prices, or any day's prices as long as they're the same day and say there's no divergance. I'll take that day's difference in prices as 0%...
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    I've Turned It Around

    I say use your margin and buy more puts.
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    Still in College - Any Advice

    I didn't read the entire post, but does this kid program?
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    Verisimilitude Fund

    What bank did you use for your CDs?
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    Define the word SYSTEM as it relates to your trading

    scalper21, I don't think that it has to necessarily automated. If your program was smart enough it could copy a "discretionary" trader. And you could automate that. But yeah if you use descretion as to where to exit it doesn't qualify as a trading "system". A trading "system" should...
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    Define the word SYSTEM as it relates to your trading

    This isn't really a system. A system is self-containting. It has predertimined entries and exits. Discretionary system is an oxymoron.
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    Why no rating/review for FXCM?

    What are the issues with FXCM?
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    Chicago FX operation

    i still in school (IIT in Chicago). So I don't know the landscape to well. I know of one EFX group in Chi that offers traders backing and has a small retail operation. only FX though now futures or options. Can I PM you my info?
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    Can someone EasyLanguage program this?

    I was a programmer for a clearing firm. The president backed traders too.
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    Chicago ET Home

    Any news?
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    Can someone EasyLanguage program this?

    Yeah me too. I had a job once where we were programming in EL but we had to teach ourselves almost everything. The guide they (TS) gives you doesn't cover much.
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    How to outperform the markets, if you are a fundmanager

    the SP moved 1.5% just today!
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