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Everything is a prediction. The art is to find out what it is you are really predicting. And why?

Yes. They aren't giving it to you for fun.

What is the seat holder supposed to do for the rest of the time. I don't think ANY seat holder would be interested in anything under a month.

Your right, just because someone writes an "absolute fact" doesn't make it true. Those who can do, those who can't look to get paid to talk about it.

If they did they would be trading instead of talking.

nobody can see contra party in real time electronically. after a couple of minutes... I don't know.

Thanks I appreciate the help. I really should have been able to figure that out myself.

Not going public. the building is worht more than the exchange.

Thats less than a 1/4 tick on 6 mini's. Small when you look at it that way.

It is a little thing, but I would like to see a box where you could put in what page you want to go to. It takes ahile when you stop reading a 600 page thread half way through to get back. Otherwise you are doing great. Thanks

Then how do you make money??:cool:

do some research. your leverage depends on your situation, clearing firm etc. You sound pretty new. I would think trying tomaximize leverage should be the absolute LAST!!!!!!! (I can't emphasize that enough) thing that you should do.

After the first fund takes its cut.

Thanks for the insights Noworries. So If I understand correctly you mulitple the daliy by the square root of the amount of days a period would have. So if you were looking for monthly, it would be daily time the square root of 20? That helps a lot. Do you worry about skew at all? How...

Thanks for the advice guys. I appreciate it. When people do a Sharpe ratio, what time period is normal? I don't have many parameters in the system, so I don't really worry about over fitting the data. I also just did an out sample test which had a slightly better sharpe than the...

I would try to go to a prop or somewhere your you can get real leverage/margin/haircut. That will allow you to trade bigger. I fyou could trade 3x bigger you would be looking at aroudn 15% drawdown and 90% year return. Things would grow a whole lot quicker. Becoem a pro on your own. Just my...

That was incredible nice of you Szeven. I wouldn't consider telling anyone anywhere near that much. (That includes blood relatives!!)

It is hard to define tuition for me. I moved to chicago for to take a $25,000 a year job for a year as a clerk at an exchange. Then another clerk job that paid better for another 9 months. So that was aroudn 2 years before I put a trade on for myslef. After that around 5k and a month before...