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I went to live abroad for a few years when I was younger, partly to understand what it's like for so many people who come to the US and try to get by. I agree with OP because it seemed like almost all common sense was inverted. Everybody ate with spoons instead of forks, I thought they were were...

Thanks for the response Mr Deco, sounds like you have the idea I was going for. I agree about coding, the best way to test ideas. For anyone who doesn't, I'd recommend it too. Start by spending just 2 weeks to get introduced to it, from there as you work your way through slightly larger...

Sorry for interfering with Happy Hour, I'll give an example and with easy numbers. Suppose an instrument with its volatility usually moves about $1/bar. Take a Moving Average crossover signal, with fast n = 5, and slow n = 10, I suppose that signal would incorporate 10 bars. Could such a signal...

Thanks for the previous responses Mr Deco, I've found them insightful. Happy to be of service. I hope I've worked my way up from noob to boob -- but that's ok, I like boobs!! There it is -- that's the one step I haven't done. Recently I've run a backtest and optimized, then compared the...

Thanks for the previous responses Mr Deco. I don't know -- it seems like there is a lot of trying to apply rules and look for regularities where they don't exist, look for if-then statements with 1 and 0 probabilities when they're more like .47 - .53 probabilities, or regularities where by the...

Hello Mr Deco, thanks again for the previous responses. One of my favorite hobbies is to make a note of some interesting formula or info, let that note get buried on my desk, find it months later and try to figure out "what the heck is that??? where did it come from???? what does it mean???"...

Hello Mr Deco, thanks for previous responses. Ok, the part about rigorous backtesting, then system trading, with R:R over 2.5 or so, not in a range bound market, is slowly making its way through to me. Next question -- what is your system disposal process, or how to tell when a system is...

Mr Deco, thanks for your input a while back on how to tell if 2 strategies are related. From yours and others posts, I coded a tool that has been very useful to me. My next question, if I may be so fortunate that you might choose to answer this humble noob's question: how do you know when to...

Do you find this helps you tell if the session is going to have strong moves or just be kind of choppy? That's the problem I have now, telling which kind of day it will be. I trade the NY market and pre-Tokyo market.

The only one I can comment on is groceries: 2006: $230 / month average 2007: $260 / month average 2008: $245 / month average 2009: $255 / month average 2010: $257 / month average This assumes my wife and I have bought about the same amount of groceries for the noted years. Everything else...

I like gray backgrounds for text. In programming, I set my IDE and text editor backgrounds all to (192, 192, 192), reduced the brightness and contrast, and it felt like a lot less strain on my eyes. Coworkers would say my screen looked so dark. I think the white background was so bright it would...

TD80 -- thank you for the explanation, it's an interesting metric to consider to pursue compounding.

Today, you have to learn new skills every 5-10 years or so. That time span has been shrinking over the past few decades, and probably will continue to shrink going forward. As I get older, it gets harder and harder to do that relearning, especially to compete with younger sharper minds that are...

thanks for the responses. The Dell is $400, a bit high. I'm going with an off-lease from TigerDirect, they've got one for $110.

I'm old fashioned and I like the 4:3 monitors, not the new 16:9 widescreens. I had a 1600x1200 19" monitor, and I really liked it. Mostly, I liked the 1200 vertical resolution so I could see many lines of code at once. Does any company still manufacture and sell 1600x1200 anymore? After a...

Could you explain a bit more "% average profit"? Is it the average % of Win amount / Account balance at time of win, as inverse of "2% of account balance for a stop"? (No intention to question or argue, only seeking more info)

Is there only one answer that you have in mind, or is any answer that meets the criteria acceptable? Example: phytoplankton or water microbes. They're alive, they obviously don't drown, they can't be blown by wind because they're in the ocean, and they can't be burned because they're in water...

Surely light (or energy or gravity) would meet the 3 rules in the initial question. But I suppose it would be disqualified by the later post that the answer is a "physical thing".

Here's an article in line with the thread just out today: global study: money doesn't buy happiness http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101213/sc_livescience/globalstudymoneydoesntbuyhappiness

If I recall an article from the Economist correctly from years ago, I think it's Bhutan where they say, instead of GDP, focus on GNH (Gross National Happiness). Instead of focusing on growing their economy by any means possible, the goal is to focus on the way of life. It would seem to be a...