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I was wondering which sites or programs people used to create and backtest trading systems. Thanks for any replies. Jason

A brokerage firm would be good for me i believe. Thanks for all the great advice and i will also stop by my tdwaterhouse office since i have experience dealing with them in the past and often discussed the markets with the manager. Now that i have no school for the next week i will try all these...

thanks a lot for the advice. I will try to talk to one of my professors since i know they have lots of contacts in the community and i have done well in any of the business classes so far. hopefully it works out

I go to a small university in Canada and my program is finance and my main interests are the markets. For the last few years i have read about the markets and some of the theoretical things such as pricing models, technical and fundamental analysis. I know they wont be going out there to higher...

I am just finishing the second year of my undergraduate degree in finance. I am wondering if anyone knows of any internships i could apply for lasting from 6 months to a year. The location does not matter since i am capable of moving anywhere however I only speak english. Thanks for any suggestions

wow thanks a lot for the replies that wikipedia article was very good and i appreciate the analogy thanks.

I was wondering if anyone could explain the current debt crisis in the United States or direct me to information explaining it. I am referring the the crisis relating to mortgage rates. Thanks

thanks for all the ideas, i am still just learning but after reading about pricing models and such i was wanting to try to create some real models with current information just for practice.

i was wondering if people use certain software to calculate a stocks standard deviation over a certain time frame. If so what is it. thanks

I am 19 and currently in university and wondering if anyone knew of any basic jobs which might be looking to hire someone with some knowledge of the financial markets, options etc. who is just wanting to learn how the real world works and willing to do whatever it takes. I would work for free or...

Thanks for the reply and link, the article leads me more to the thinking that oil of course has an influence on currency but only as part of the trade balances in a country. Seems that ultimately trade balances affect currencies and then also interest rates. Oil can influence interests rates but...

I am trying to understand some of the factors that cause fluctuations in oil prices and started to think about there relationship with the currency markets. I am having trouble figuring out whether it is oil prices that affect currency markets or if it is the currency moves influence oil prices...

I understand how the stock price will theoretically drop by the amount of the dividend on that day but i was wondering if the day after that it is common for the shares to continue to fall. I would think most of the public would stay in longer then they might usually to get the dividend so after...

I was wondering if it was common for trust units to drop in price the day after the dividend date. So if the dividend got paid to shareholders on record of november 17 then a decline would occur on the next traded day as everyone who wanted to sell after they got the dividend now does. thanks jason

I recently started university and I am taking economics courses but everything we have been taught so far seems to not take into consideration the role of speculators. An example is when we are learning about supply and demand we are simply taught that with things such as oil OPEC simply could...

is this related to the same problem you had a few months ago? if not why did you keep trading with them after having problems previously with margin calls? For your current situation couldn't the broker just say that you had a margin call and liquidated the position your self and if you...

currently I'm trying to read as much material relating to the different markets as possible and am planning on trading more actively when i turn 18. Do you think this is the best plan so i can start small and gain experience?

Hello everyone I am new to the forum and was wondering what formal education the people here think is necessary or at least somewhat beneficial for someone who wants to trade for a living. I’m just about to graduate high school and am not sure what university courses would be beneficial for...