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    Reality check please...JWH, hedge funds and mutual funds

    how does the trendiness of the equity indices (e.g., nasdaq) from 1996-2000 and then from 2000-2003 compare to historical periods?
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    Reality check please...JWH, hedge funds and mutual funds

    changed irrevocably in what way?
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    Reality check please...JWH, hedge funds and mutual funds

    i think this is why warren buffet said that hedge funds are a product of wall street marketing. just another way to extract huge fees for mediocre performance.
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    Why Do People Trade when the Failure Rate is So High?

    i think if you ask this question then the answer will be obvious: what's the alternative?
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    ES Journal Archive (2006 - 2008)

    omg someone give this market a big kick in the butt.
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    ES Journal Archive (2006 - 2008)

    i was thinking that the tradeoff should negate the benefit, unless the distribution of price at expiration is stacked in such a way that most trades end up near the entry price, in which case it will be in one of the 3 profitable zones. what would be good strikes to use relative to the...
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    ES Journal Archive (2006 - 2008)

    which month and strike would you typically use so that there is sufficient wiggle room for the option to expire worthless?
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    ES Journal Archive (2006 - 2008)

    isn't there a tradeoff though? you are winning more frequently, but your gain on each win is less. seems to me that there is a tradeoff between win% and gain/loss. how have you determined that one way is better than the other? Edit: hmm...wait a sec. unless at the time that you short...
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    ES Journal Archive (2006 - 2008)

    why?
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    What does it take to start a data feed company?

    thanks. i was not criticizing your post. okay, to get the feed from the exchange costs $50K. Edit: the cme website says $9000 per year. no tick history will be provided. let people get their backtesting data from historical data providers. maybe provide 1 week's worth of data at most...
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    What does it take to start a data feed company?

    suppose you go small first and the only data you provide is ES. please give some numbers instead of just saying it's expensive. and lets say you limit the number of customers at first until you can handle more. so no need to spend so much money on overhead at first. and lets say there's...
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    What does it take to start a data feed company?

    Lets say someone wants to do things right and provide a reliable data feed. What does it take to start a company like this? What does it cost?
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    Is Wall Street leaking news?

    is today a leak of tomorrow's consumer confidence number?
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    With a 40k account.

    problem is that you won't really know if you have a system that works until you trade it.:)
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    With a 40k account.

    cool! would you mind giving a tutorial on how this works?
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    Setting up a socket from a hotel

    if you can do what you want it to do then doesn't it mean the hotel would have to turn off its firewall?
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    Wireless internet broadband access available?

    go to starbucks or barnes & noble
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    IB Wealth Lab adaptor

    are you sending an exe? and can it handle different types of orders with position tracking?
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    IB Wealth Lab adaptor

    how?
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    Easylanguage or general programming question

    how can i code this in easylanguage: if current tick=first tick of current bar then... i could not get barstatus to work because the open flag refers to the open for the next bar. does anyone know of a workaround?
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