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"Entrepreneur" - a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, esp. a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. lol :D

I never understood 'back testing', just run it and make it work (imo)

I'm thinking; 1) darts, 2) monkey, 3) Wall Street Journal financial page taped to the wall, lol nb

Guess it all depends on what you're trying to do or where you need to go. For example if you're going; just a few blocks - you can walk couple of miles - take a bike or the bus state to state - car, plane or train around Indy track - Formula 1 vehicle to the moon - Rocket similarly...

I said that with tongue in cheek and for a little humor, understated to the max! :)

I see the phrase "automated system" here on ET quite a bit and it seems they (and those who program them) fall into two general categories; a) simple systems, using higher level platforms like Excel or TradeStation with retail brokers, and b) complex systems, developed with languages like...

Hey, I'm not knocking Python and know it's good, just can't ever get the Ernest image out of my head after watching the movie so many times with the kid's. :p

I have an in-depth understanding of it and don't see anything very special for my purposes - but hey, knock yourself out, if you like it that's fine.

Python...every time I see the word in print I think of the movie with Earnest and the pick-up truck full of snakes and he wide-eyed and frantic calling out; "It's a Python, a Python I tell ya!" :D

SmartQuant is good for beginners (imo)

if it hurts, don't do it!

hey, I just made a machine that moves matter at speeds above and beyond the speed of light. I'd like to share it with you and am looking for some advice in this forum; "what do you think I should do with it?". thanks in advance, NB

WOW...thanks for that picture, it was my first computer too! I used SuperCalc and also bought a Pascal compiler...too cool! :D

...and apply all the best after you know programming and trading...then, you can start learning how to trade and program all over [and over] again! NB :)

Gotta make sure to put the quotes in the right place...so, here's my take; You can't pick these moves from "b.s. half assed" scanners. -nb

on such a hypothetical question, aren't all the answer's potentially correct?

sign them up quick!

Whenever the description of a person is prefixed with Great, it would be most logical to be speaking of a person who started with some amount of 'born talent' and then improved on that by practice and training with a manner of dedication. I don't think anyone enters the league of Great's...

Study order routing and the rules or policy of each ECN, as well as the particular 'arrangement' your Broker has with them with respect to execution and operational characteristics. Many ECN's (or ECN broker relationship agreements) do not allow the ECN to 'pass-thru' during outer-market and...

Best language depends on the problem you're trying to solve, the amount of data that needs to be processed and the system's performance requirements.