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Bro, no offense, u are trying to sound smart but you are not really saying anthying. can you elaborate please. the figure of 600 trillion as i understand it is a geustimate of total outstanding notional values. if you are trying to use NPV as a barometer, lets say an IRR is like 5%...

Well if you can trade cocoa and sugar then let me know. But this is the point I was trying to emphasize to the thread starter. It can help with interviews especially if you don't have connections. It shows you are smart and hard working. But in the real world, I find this still to be order...

Can I ask what fields you are in? In many ways our responses don't contradict. When I saiid in my response that cfa is useful for specific jobs, I get the impression that you are in the field where it is simply valued. I have been a trader for 8 years which is not vastly different from your...

I think in consideration of the fact that there are thousands of CFA applications, it does not have the same exclusivity as before. To make the answer simple, the CFA is very specific and can help with certain jobs. But overall, i don't think people give a shit outside of equity research and...

if u are wnat to be long theta, then u are short vol, if u want to sell vol on 10 different positions, my one piece of advise is, BE CAREFUL THAT U DONT BLOW UP!

by: Investment U February 11, 2009 | about stocks: By Louis Basesense If you’re a self-professed “Goldbug,” feel free to read no further. Or at least spare me your hate mail. Because no matter what I say today, I know you’ll cry foul… or something much more colorful. But for...

tks fellas!!!!

To be honest, right now i am doing a mini project with regular Visual Basic, which i guess is useless for when i move onto C# of vba.net Can i ask, what book did you use for learning C#

hi DC, i would love to ask questions, but i am not knowledge yet enuff to ask certain things...if i run into issues in the future i will give you a shout. i noticed that on Ninja trader you can use it free for historical analysis but you have to purchase it if you want it for real time trading.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/28/barack-obama-letter-to-iran thoughts anyone?

Thanks everyone for all the value added feedback!!!!

So basically you are saying that i wasted 750 usd on buying open quant....when i can do it all in visual studio...MY FIRST ROOKIE MISTAKE!!!!!!!

You are right Rosy, as mentinoed above i am looking at learning c sharp or vba.net..........and i guess that i have to enhance my excel skills as well!

Rabbitone, tks for the post. I had purchased Openquant becuase i actually believed that this tool would have made the whole process of automated trading easier bc of its integration platform (backtesting, simulation and real-time API). The programming languages that Openquant requires are...

yeah i hear your points....i already feel myself loosing my perspective on the market bc i am trying to learn all these codes. tks for the feedback.

i appreciate your honesty and your thoughts are noted....

hi Guys, i am the traditional discretionary trader (fundmantals and technicals) i am starting to get into programming bc i dont want to rely on a pogrammer to create automated strategies. I figure the cost for a programmer willl be the same as taking classes and learn for myself. I so...

we have to know what we are blocking before we block it......

hey people on this forum, i tried my best to see if anyone else posted in this thread to see if any other person would have noticed this but there are too many posts..apologies for repeating but: THE ARTICLE SAYS: "his would impose a small fee — ranging up to, say, 0.25 percent — on...

as i mentioned before....LME futures is the hedgers market of choice for base metals...MetalsTrader already stated he wants to hedge like the big boys. THe only advantage one has hedging comex copper versus LME is that LME one cannot realize locked postions on forward trades. where in...