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My point is that Dems have been rolling out the healthcare speech every four years for decades to make the unions all warm and fuzzy and promptly forget about it until the next election cycle. As for affordable healthcare, you do not get it by adding another layer of bureaucracy on top of...

We were in an undeclared war with Russia for at least 45 years that cost both countries tremendously and really shaped foreign policy for several generations (and still is, with Condi at State). I don't think Russia in its various manifestations over the centuries has ever been a strong...

Apparently Bush does. Here is a quote from an early Bush press conference referring to Putin: ". . . I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his...

Er, right, JFK made speeches about fixing health care in the early Sixties and the Dems have really done a lot about it since then . . . .

The Republican Party isn't about leading, and it isn't about a conservative agenda or any agenda for that matter. Inside the party the entire focus has been on winning elections. What we see and read about is just for public consumption. I don't know anyone inside the Democratic Party but it...

Sadly, this will never happen. A career politician's raison d'être is to create laws, which he'll gladly do, whether they are needed or not. Not so in the 18th century when a politician actually had to do real work (farming, etc.) to support his family.

Looks as if something on the level of Hull is what you can expect...

There is an interview surfer did for realworldtrading.com with Victor Niederhoffer over at the dailyspeculations site (also some pictures from Spec Party 2005 and 2006). Of course this has nothing to do with the topic, which has generated over 40 pages of mostly nothing.

You started another thread last week entitled "Am I wasting time learning Visual Basic?" Why don't you go back and read that one? Languages are tools, with strengths and weaknesses for different tasks, so if you're going to pick one, pick one that addresses the problem you are trying to...

I think you are referring to the Darvas book not the Aronson book, which this thread is about. I haven't read the Aronson book yet -- I've only had it for a few days. It is fairly dense (esp. for a trading-related book) and thoughtful. It doesn't appear to be, as some people earlier in this...

What you should learn depends on what you are trying to do. You mentioned trading system development. There are a few routes you can go and you listed most of them. Excel has an advantage in that it has widespread use in the financial community despite its many disadvantages. A lot of...

IB TICK and TICKQ update more rapidly than their eSignal counterpart.

WOW!! Three trades and we can declare that TA works? Try repeating this a thousand times in all market conditions and see what happens. . . . this doesn't even qualify as being Fooled by Randomness.

marketsurfer- Have you been able to read most of the book? I was able to look at it for awhile this past weekend and its approach is one that interests me. However, I ended up not buying it yet as it spent a lot of pages covering philosophical issues (of which I was already aware) before...

The list of qualifiers can be obtained by clicking on the esignal add-in toolbar help icon. Qualifiers is one of the topics. DDE doesn't enable you to communicate back to the esignal to have esignal open a chart. However you could keep the same list of tickers in a quote window in esignal...

In the dim recesses of my mind I remember an article written by Milton Friedman and Jimmie Savage trying to explain choices involving risk by comparing the utility of insurance vs. purchasing a lottery ticket. I remember NO details but I seem to recall that under their analysis that purchasing...

Good luck!

I don't understand your comment, but if you're referring to Russian roulette, you can only lose once and it has nothing to do with arbitrage.

It's fascinating to me the emotional response this thread elicits. For me it's a no-brainer that trading and gambling equate because when you reduce them down to their elements the framework used to analyze both is pretty similar. Coming from a statistics background, I never saw gambling with...

The only example in trading I can think of that is not chance is arbitrage, and I don't mean statistical arbitrage. Ask the guys at LTCM if statistical arbitrage is not a gamble. I doubt that traditional arbitrage is an opportunity that presents itself to many ETers. As for the comment...