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Understand your point about not holding the quote too long on the thread the datafeed's data distribution is operating on - that could slow down or lock up the datafeed processing due to data synchronization interlock. Rather than 75 threads though, you could service the datafeed events on...

Just a hypothetical - Suppose you had a real working system that was making you $200K a year trading the ES. Now suppose you find that you can sell/rent it to the public for a million dollars or more a year. What would you do? Would you're deciding to take the million a year instead of...

"Systems" that "trade" solely the cash indices on short timeframes are usually just useless and illusionary. There have been a ton of useless systems based on the cash indices developed over the years. They have the illusion of "should" working based on backtesting, but can't be used to...

What's really sad is that the USPTO will probably actually grant the petitions for those ridiculous and frivolous "trading system" patents. Then the holders of the new patents will sue the CME/NYMEX/NYSE/etc. and every online broker for patent infringement. Then it'll have to be...

Just a thought to consider - it is possible to OVER thread an app. Breaking processing into multiple threads is often convenient and (because of all the stuff written about it) seems like the optimal design approach - but it's possible to be TOO granular. Massively threaded apps are great...

If you're dropping down to a very slow 5200rpm drive, load your system RAM to the max to minimize the amount of paging/swapping your computer has to do - and make sure you're using an OS that can use it (W2K or XP) not Windows 98 or (God forbid) Windows Me.

If you read his post you'd see it's more than just a "box" and it's a Dell deal not an old PC he's looking to dump -- it sounds like the one I've been seeing advertised on TV lately.

Of course there's the very negative Near Death Experience of listening to Al Gore drone on about Global Warming and the many other things he pretends to be an expert on. :)

riskarb - They're feeling around in the dark - unfortunately you got groped. Never be one of the first to jump on ANY datafeed vendor's new offering - especially if it involves delivery technology they haven't already been using for a couple of years.

During the late '90s almost any idiot was a freaking stock market guru - just buy, 'cause there were enough other idiots who'd buy it from it later at a higher price. Even the lamest methods can be made to look "brilliant" if you pick the right stocks and right time periods. WT is a sucker...

I think you'd infer that 31 years January was a down month (and thus not a "January effect" signal), not that he skipped 31 years of data. So 49 out of the last 80 years January ended up and of those 49, 38 years ended up. Not bad, not great (especially if you factor out multiyear bull...

They've got to be able to keep their damn space probes WORKING first!!! NASA has become a bunch of incompetent putzes. Last report was they've decided not to fly shuttle missions through 2005 so the Hubble Telescope will become non-functional. Multiple millions (not including the cost of...

Is this like the old woodchuck tongue twister?? How much loot can a trader make trading? He'd make all the loot that a trader would make trading, if a trader could trade like a trader who knew how to trade. :)

Average user is unlikely to notice a material difference between using a certain server config as a workstation and using a similar straight workstation config (i.e.., same processor/speed, memory, video, etc.). Server configs often have things like higher throughput disk subsystems, dual...

Isn't Accenture putting this system together for the Pentagon (it's to allow out of country military personnel to vote electronically)?? Aren't those the old Arthur Andersen consulting guys who broke from the audit side years ago (before the whole Andersen/Enron debaucle). Andersen...

Voice stress analyzers have been around for years. They work, but aren't flawless - and more importantly, don't work on pathelogical liars. So obviously they're useless on all politicians.

Let's see: 1. The $50 includes two lines - one voice line and a seperate dedicated FAX line. You can use a cheaper single line plan that still offers unlimited use. 2. If you use a cheaper single line plan, you CAN still use it to send and receive faxes. I wanted a separate fax line...

I'm using it over a cable connection through a router that all my PCs also connect through. A little bit of special configuration of router port passthrough (for inbound calls) and getting the Vonage box DHCP priority (so it could get the same inside address to be used as part of the...

For the S&P futures, just plot the $PREM symbol. It's the premium between the cash and futures. As far as which one leads the other - neither one. That is, neither one always leads the other. You have a complex arbitrage going on betwen the cash/equities, the related ETF, and the futures -...

You need to get back on the lithium dude. You been watching old sci-fi movies?? Next thing you'll be telling everyone that the Van Allen Belt can catch fire and incinerate the planet. But don't worry, the Seaview will make it to the proper launch point in time to launch a nuke to "seed the...