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Think about it in the context of LASIK Eye Surgery and you will get the picture. imo

Not sure if you saw the thread on starting a hedge fund - if not, there may be some useful information there; http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3387&perpage=6&highlight=hedge%20fund%20setup&pagenumber=1 Green Trader Tax is another good source and they offer...

Gotta say, It's pretty easy to separate the men from the boys in this thread. I've coded under almost every ASM, C, Fortran, Pascal, Lisp, Python, Perl, Java, C++, C#, VB, .NET, and other languages in the fashion of the day (applications, device drivers, and firmware on all platforms)...and...

Great plan! Remember, your success (or the potential of that) will be determined by your NEXT step! Do all the research you can and talk to as many who can help as possible, before you cast the Dice and select who and what work you will be moving on and into...jmho And, revisit the...

If you're doing it by hand and trying to TA(nalyze) with charts, you may as hang it up...all that stuff is sold like the holy grail, but the real money is in perpetuating the myth. -lol

In a day gone by, I once had an old Korean Sensei pose somewhat of a similar question to me; "And when will you know that you are rich?". I had no answer, so he advised; "You will know you are rich once you know that you have enough!". -kimchi

i'm interested - what stage are you at? Is the work part of a detailed business strategy and plan, has the outline of a project plan been put together and does this work have a budget allocated? thx

if you are writing trading systems for yourself then you use 'whatever it takes', and write "exceptional code"! :)

mrtwo thanks, great link!

"I will also state I have been reading the ET forums for a while and truly appreciate the professionalism of some of the traders on this board." http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=70206

i know them when seen, but actually it's easier to tell those who aren't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expertise

infomercial...gotta love it! :)

Batman, I can't speak for others, but as to why I don't work as a quant for some firm it's because I prefer to own what I develop and not contribute on the cheap to someone else's venture. As far as teaching this or that and the evolution of technology and the markets, I remember in my old...

nitro, best post so far. -imho

This is an interesting discussion and I wish there was something for me to contribute, but sadly I think that I've forgotten more than what I know and worse yet -> now find myself no longer young enough to know everything! :(

Unlike others, I'm not religious about the language I use for programming and there aren't many I haven't developed in and with some of the most popular ones had the opportunity to write parsers, interpreters, compilers, assemblers, disassemblers, cross-compilers, debuggers and other language...

For example, core market data fees are about $10,000 a month for US Equities, then the per-user fees are roughly $200 a month additional (NYSE $125, AMEX $30, ANSDAQ $50). There are no tiered volume discounts from the Exchanges. If you want to see quotes and trades for Options, Futures and...

Once we get Gore back in the Whitehouse, he'll take care of all...remember, he created the Internet! :D

yes, that's the truth

Yep, I noticed that too...Yahoo! :mad: