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    Why do I see "Trends" in Randomly Generated Data?

    Wishing you the best of health Maestro! This may be the article you referenced: http://www.santafe.edu/~baes/jdf/papers/science2.pdf "The Predictive Power of Zero Intelligence in Financial Markets" from Santa Fe Institute (great center for work on time series studies). Good trading.
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    3 new papers on trading ...

    http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2005/HPL-2005-85.pdf http://www.x-cd.com/Banking07/pdfs/1008796.pdf Here are links to 2 of the 3 papers....
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    Stimulus Package quote of the day

    Best quote: "Why are my tax dollars going to someone who just qualified for a $600k home loan?" Swell, both parties working together to pander for votes in an election year.
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    What do you trade? Thank you
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    Premium newsfeeds

    Are there any web based news services that are 'almost as good'? Thanks,
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    The Surf Report

    Prof, can you post your chart? Thank you
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    Video of a trader blow up Today, NSFW lol

    King, how could he have hedged this even if he had the buying power? Would not the hedge have added to his losses today? Thank you,
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    YM more volatile now it's on Globex?

    What are the differences between the ecbot and globex YM contract for: MarketDepth (ecbot was up to 10 deep) now only 5 deep? Stop Orders Exchange fees ? ? Are there other changes not listed here? Thank you,
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    So tell me why I should trade currency futures instead of forex?

    In your backtest, how did costs compare between spot and futures? Thank you
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    is it possible to scalp the NQ??

    Thank you Surdo. What profit target, if any, with a 30 min entry? How many trades a day? Thank you,
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    Scalping

    Very nice. The screens are very clean, are you just watching price and the DOM? Are there any indicators that you found helpful? Thanks for the screen shot and spreadsheet. Very well done!
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    SQL db design recommendation

    Would the database be faster if each symbol had its own table? Can an SQL DB do 900K inserts during the day without any load problem? Simple questions, but thank you for the response...
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    Timothy Sykes News

    Take a look at resources here on ET and save yourself $20. Read the first 2 journals by SpyderTrader on equities, or read the work done by 4re or AMT4SWA. All have posted actual trades and were successful over a long period of time...
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    i have about 100 pending orders in and IB crashes

    What would be the best alternative to IB for trading YM? I already have a Tradestation account for backup... Is Zen-Fire a more stable client? What other technology should I be looking at to replace IB? Thank you
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    Sykes is Writing for "Real Money"?????

    When is 'soon'? Is that like someday? or tomorrow? What broker executes on 'soon'? I see now, SELL 10000 CHNR SOON To learn how to execute SOON you need to buy the DVD...
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    Timmay Gets Bitch Slapped

    Please explain what you mean by 'brown bag' deal? Thank you
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    The Surf Report

    Good luck Surf. I am wondering, not being a wise ass, but asking a few questions. You have over 10,000 posts on ET. It does not look like your trading has changed much over the past 4 years. Same posts; same trade setups, etc. etc. etc. Do you keep a journal? Do you have a trading goal...
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    Will you buy timmay's hedge fund book?

    Dare you mock this book????
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    Will you buy timmay's hedge fund book?

    http://www.rampant-books.com/mgt_amazon_sales_rank.htm Ok, 2 to 3 books a day at $19....
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    Will you buy timmay's hedge fund book?

    How many books a day does it take to rank 5000 or 10000? Anybody know?
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