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Very true OldTrader. The age old story of the old bull and the young bull. Just in case there is a young bull who has not heard it. Young bull says to old bull "let's run down the hill and do that heifer." old bull replies, "let's just walk down and do the whole herd." Remember puppy...

Tom Peters said way back in the 80's that trading knowledge would become a huge global business. Larry trades his knowledge contracts to the neverending stream of buyers who take the other side. He just neglected to pay the exchange fees...by giving a slice to Uncle Sam.

Fact: Larry won the Trading Competition in 1987. He ran $10,000 up to $2 million but ended with $1 million at years end. Well done Larry. Fact: Larry posted all his trades on a webpage back a few years ago from that competition. Good marketing. (I downloaded all his statements and ran them...

Thanks all, I'll check them out.

I need to find a realtime data feed to Eurex with api to our own software. Presently using data feeds from Futuresource and IB linked via api to our software. Want direct access to Eurex data? Any clues as to who is best?

I was once sitting with a young trader who thought I 'knew' something about the future of price. He asked me "So, what do you think the market is going to do?" I was silent. He looked at me again. I was still silent. Suddenly, the light came on in his head. "I've got it, you don't know...

Trading is like all sports. Go and watch Tiger Woods for 5 days and see how better you play golf. See if you can turn professional afer those 5 days. No chance. It's the practise that makes you good. Thousands of trades. Get a simulator account and trade live to start. Buy a bunch of...

Trade through a simulator like Ninja Trader linked to IB and at least you have to be there and click the trades. In the end YOU are the system, whether you buy one or get it free off the net. Ninja keeps all your records and at the end of each period you can see what strategies work best...

Researchers at Florida University have discovered that deliberate practise makes us experts. "A lot of people believe there are some inherent limits they were born with. But there is surprisingly little hard evidence that anyone could attain any kind of exceptional performance without...