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There are alot of statistics that people use for analyzing systems and portfolios. I agree about Tradestation being a good starting point. http://www.striker.com/ has an impressive display. www.FuturesTruth.com has a credible selection. NinjaTrader has slightly different, and smaller...

It is a matter of convenience to have an International common currency for trade. By common factors, it is currently also be the worlds most popular reserve currency. If the Arab states could get their crude oil priced in something other than dollars, that would be a significant.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

After our company had a major outage caused be a single harddrive failure on a desktop system. Our servers are all hardware RAID-1 or RAID-5. After about a year, I quietly gave up on RAID-1. The problem is that Windows/drivers crap out too often. Without a hardware cache, every hard reboot...

+1 Vonage, especially for international calling. Had to dump VOIP when latency got bad just a couple days after my DSL provider sent a survey asking how people were using their DSL lines. (I had a DSL from the phone company without phone service.)

Your intuition is good. If you are trading completely uncorrelated markets with uncorrelated signals, then one still gets a diversification benefit which bumps the portfolio Sharpe. In real life, the markets are correlated and your signals are correlated. This can help or hurt the portfolio...

Seriously, you expect no relocation,no track record,no interview,no trial charges no data/software fees no money down I have heard of a scam that works like that. Open five accounts with five hungry introducing brokers. Deposit large personal checks on a unfunded account into each. Push...

Oh, there is another site that has some trading companies reported: http://www.ripoffreport.com/ If you do a little looking you will find some of the products that we use today were once categorized as rip-off deals.

Some people have the courage of their convictions. For example, http://www.vantagepointsoftware.info/ For me, I use the Web of Trust addon http://www.mywot.com/ This allows people in the Internet to give their 2-cents. When I see a link, it has a little colored icon next to it...

I agree that this is old news now. On Dec 6th, Bullish Review (which tracks the CFTC report on open interest), reported that both long and short commercials had liquidated their positions (Nov 30th reporting.) At that point Commericals were holding normal, non-speculative levels, with large...

I don't know much about market making at CME, but I did research NASDAQs systems a year ago for a Level II based system. The thing about being a Market Maker with NASDAQ is that there are lots of rules and interface issues. There are pre-opening and pre-closing rounds of requests for...

My Grandfather unload the estate's trainload of eggs into the physical market (after all its not like the hen were raised just for him), but at about half the Futures price paid and with a stiff commission. It left a bad taste in his mouth for the decades that followed. At CSI, we had a...

The article that FreeThinker referenced is in agreement with what I wrote. As long as we are talking about a Commodity Trading Adviser (and not a Hedge Fund,) you can pretend that a segregated (non-pool) account is a pool with one customer. You do the accounting assuming by dividing the...

Oh, and I should add: the problem of over fitting don't just apply to back testing. Ever seen a long table of systems, with short forward histories, sorted by performance? Why would anyone go to the second page, if they can get a system with 3000% return on drawdown? In my mind, this falls...

Clarification, using PayPal and a merchant providing refunds are independent things. A merchant is free to refund payments made through PayPal the same as with a credit card. PayPal, just like other credit card processors, wants the merchant and customer to work it out, but will issue a...

I agree with what everyone else has said, but want to add a couple of things. Sociology: Group think/civility. Before the days of the Internet, day-trading, from what I read, meant standing around a brokerage. Bigger accounts could even get a space in the office. Still bigger traders had...

Led a team which wrote a CTA Trade Accounting/Order Management system some years back. The accountant generated the published numbers in Excel so there may be some rules of which I am unaware. A CTA has publish any of his accounts. CTAs typically have pools and then separate segregated...

Are you drawing the chart by hand? With your own code? There are a few fairly poor stock scanning / charting programs on sourceforge.net which scrap data from Yahoo. You could look there.

My grandfather once took delivery on a trainload full of eggs as a result of being the executor of his father's estate. Messy business. I agree with local that you need to read the Contract Specifications. Yes, there are different brokers and agents involved in handling the physicals than...

If you are looking to scan for new highs, there are several products including CSI's Market Scanner which comes with their Unfair Advantage product. With a little configuration, you can see which stocks/futures are at or near their weekly/monthly/yearly highs. Is that what you meant?