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    Historical Quotes with MySQL

    Thanks for all the responses guys, I appreciate it. After considering some of the other database choices (some very interesting alternatives), I think I am going to stick with MySQL, mostly because I am already very familiar with it and ways to optimize it. Now that that is settled, I am...
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    Historical Quotes with MySQL

    Thanks for the reply, stephen. Berkeley DB is an interesting alternative that I had not considered before. I read through a lot of the documentation and noticed it was very different from the typical SQL database. It is a lot more programming oriented, rather than executing a simple SQL...
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    Historical Quotes with MySQL

    I was considering storing historical quotes in a database such as MySQL and interfacing with it for backtesting purposes. Has anyone explored this idea before? Some concerns I have with this: - The speed that MySQL could retrieve the data. This would obviously be a local database, so...
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    Saturday

    I dont think there's anything to trade on saturdays, but the foriegn exchange markets open sunday night if you really want to get a head start on your trading week :) Its too bad I cant trade on weekends, it would make my saturdays and sundays so much more interesting. We should all send the...
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    GOOG Call Spread

    Hi, I am pretty new to options and have a question about what I should do with a position I have. Yesterday I bought a GOOG Feb 430 Call for $23 and have watched it go up to $34 today giving me an unrealized profit of $11. I can now leg into a 430/440 spread by selling the 440 Call for $29...
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    Is making a $100,000 a month prop/retail trading

    I guess those guys dont join online forums, haha.
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    Most Useful Technical Indicators

    I find that the indicators I use most often are a combination of Price, Volume/OBV, Stochastics, RSI, and ADX. I use non-standard timeframes for each, of course. -Paccc
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