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Carlin software is very good. I've traded 3 different places in my career and Generic is best of those 3.

Awhile back I stopped complaing about NYSE volatility and just adapted and got used to it. But those FTSE guys must be going crazy. Seems that index can stay in same 2 or 3 point range for hours and hours. One morning I couldn't sleep and woke up at 4AM and watched the european markets...

You have to get a feel for how much the stock you are in usually pays the players under the given circumstances. When it pays you adequately that is when you get out. Don't get too greedy and don't be not greedy enough. For example, if you are in an oil stock short and the price of oil...

I think the herd doesn't lose money. It just makes sub par returns. I.E. most funds underperform market.

Its a global bond bubble. The crashing of this in coming years could lead to worst depression ever. Should be interesting. No way is 3% a fair interest rate. Some day markets will demand much higher rates.

When NYSE went down today at 3:50 I would have expected there to be a lot of volume shifted over to ECN's from day traders wanting to get out of their positions. But this was not the case. I didn't see much additional ECN activity at all. And was stuck in lots of positions. So...

Anyone think it is possible to day trade stocks (not futures and close out positions by end of day) with buying power in excess of $20 million? It can be frustrating to close out of 20,000+ share positions at end of day without slippage. So unless you are trading S&P100 names where there...

Bottom line is prices could fall a lot. Will they and when is almost impossible to know. But can they fall a lot? YES. Will they? Don't know. Will it be a disaster for economy if they fall a lot? Yes. That is the important thing to understand. Risk and stakes are higher than ever...

Unfortunately 30%+ of people are using ARMS. And I hear its over 50% in california. Because that is only way they can afford to pay what may be an overvalued price. Crux of problem is that many first time buyers entered market over last 2 years and bought based on belief that housing prices...

Like i said, the year over year comparisons look rosy. But TOL's earnings were based on orders received in Q2. Orders were down in Q3 and Q4 from Q2. Some of this is seasonal of course. My point is that while first half 2005 will be stronger than first half 2004. It is very much in...

Almost every homebuilder has 2 or 3 consecutive quarters of much lower unit orders. The year over year numbers always look impressive. But if you examine it closely, what really happened is that the homebuilders had huge growth in early 2004. Since then it has cooled off. The big earnings...

there are record numbers of homes being purchased for investment. Many of these are being rented out for LESS than the mortgage payment on speculation capital gains will continue to be what it has been. Many of these homes are even vacant. The low cost of money and 10%+ appreciation means you...

Nobody knows if it will crash. But the seeds are in place. Huge run up beacuse of 1% fed funds (3.5% ARMS). Record speculation and hoarding of homes as investment porperties. Loosening of mortgage rules to the extreme. 1% teaser interest only ARMS. No Doc. No questions asked. The...

look back at 1998-2002 and you will see lots of 20 point swings in the s&p's. Too bad market doesn't trade like that anymore.

Have you checked insider sales over last 6 months?? CTX 100,000 shares sold zero purchased LEN 131,136 shares sold zero purchased DHI 4,000 shares sold 1,000 purchased RYL 303,000 shares sold 1,000 purchased MDC 745,000 shares sold zero purchased MTH 250,000 shares sold zero purchased...

So you are saying the real rate of interest that people demand isn't constant but rather a geometic function of nominal rate? I.E. real rate is lower when inflation is low and real rate is higher when inflation is higher. I tend to agree with that, but not to the extreme the market is...

Core CPI 2.2% headed higher (historic ten year yield spread over core cpi is 3%) So ten year bond yield could rise 100 basis points to be in line with history. capacity utilization rose to 79.2% very close to the 80%+ inflation danger zone. fed getting serious.... talk of removing...

So VWAP means they tell their broker to buy or sell and they are guaranteed the volume weighted average price. So i guess the topic changes to how do the brokers who get these orders from institutions trade in order to guarantee the VWAP without getting burned??

I guess there are no mutual fund managers/traders here that want to share the knowledge.

Are there any traders here that work for mutual funds or major institutions. I would be interested to hear such a person describe how their trading of stocks for their funds has changed over the last 3 or 4 years. Mainly i'm interested in how they use program trading to do their daily...