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Exactly... People on the Extreme Left... Who believe everything is a Big Conspiracy... That Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened... That both the 2000 and 2004 elections were "stolen"... That the way to deal with Genocidal Islamic Fascism... is through friendly negotiations... That the...

Thanks... But it's really not a problem... more like a mystery... Just a big, noisy 1 second disk seek every 10 seconds. It happens ONLY when a specific 10,000 line VB6 program is running... So if I really wanted to get to the bottom of this... I could just strip down the program till...

I've been waiting... But nobody has even bothered to relate any of this to making money in the financial markets... And one has to question why a dusty paper from the 60s ressurected by Taleb is a "gem". I'm fairly certain of one thing... None of this stuff is useful to > 95% of quants...

I trade ONLY stocks with daily volume between 5,000 or 100,000... Because that's where market inefficiencies are found... And that's where you'll still find profitable bid/ask spreads. Depending on the Specialist... He may be completely apathetic about the stock... Or he was play games...

"Fat tails" refer to a distribution... Where common events like a 1% move follow the Normal Distribution... But extreme events like a 10% move are more common than the Normal Distribution would indicate. So a good fit for financial markets... Is a ** simple ** custom distribution...

IB Canada is NOT an American company. It is a Canadian Investment Dealer (= broker-dealer) registered in Quebec. Securities laws vary a little from province to province... So there must be specific regulatory reasons IB chose Quebec... After years of planning a Canadian subsidiary...

You should probably try the IB Discussion Forum search function... For technical questions related to the API.

The high class Russian hookers/barracudas... Are at the top of the economic pyramid. They get all the money... Either John cash money and jewelry... Or lucrative divorce settlements.

This is NOT a trading thread... it's a gambling thread. In fact, it's a "gambling problem" thread.

It's sort of like walking into a bookstore... and seeing: "Theory of Relativity for Dummies"... or "Neurological Surgery for Dummies"... or "Corporate Litigation for Dummies" or "Historical Backtesting and Automated Trading Systems for Dummies" All of these examples...

The key problem with Islamo-Fascists is that they are not rational... In the sense that incentives or threats can result in ** deterrence **. Hitler was very rational. A megalomaniac... but rational. He wanted wealth and power for his race... and acted accordingly. The Islamo-Fascists...

It may be virtually impossible to resolve this kind of issue... Because all Windows disk I/O is virtual and buffered... So reading/writing files does not correspond in real time... To actual physical movement of the drive head.

Actually, I agree with Jimmy. If you have never been VERY successful as a trader... And made a GOOD living using "back-tested" strategies... Your software is very likely to be worthless. A failed trader building the ultimate generalized "back-testing" plus ATS for "non-programmers"...

Largest drawdown in 13 years... 10% (about $60,000) over 3 days during "Russian Crisis" in 1998... When high yield collapsed and investment grade held steady... So my hedges did not hold up. Learned a lot about high yield that week. But it was a one shot thing... Nothing similar to that...

True... But Islamo-Fascist culture is completely counter-intuitive... The biggest possible debacles are spun and elevated to heroic victories. Like 9/11 was a massive blunder by Osama. He went from having a controlling interest in the world's largest heroin producing state... With a...

Another HezBollywood fauxtograph exposed: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/hezbollah_sinks_australian_warship/ One must keep in mind that the Islamo-Fascist media... Caters to an audience nearly devoid of critical analysis.

Unfortunately, BlueHorseShoe has it right. The parallels with Nazi Germany are striking: (1) Fanatical Fascist ideology. Hitler co-opted "nationalism" to legitamize Fascism... Iran is co-opting "God" to legitamize Fascism. (2) Extemely imperialistic goals. Hitler wanted all of...

The classic 70s movie "Parallax View"... Is the mother of all conspiracy movies. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071970/ Warren Beatty is an undercover journalist... Who applies for the job of "assassin" with Parallax Corporation... Who are in the business of assassinating political...

I got my Series 7 without any sponsorship. I applied to become a US broker-dealer in 1998 and become a member of the NASD. I live in Canada... and had ZERO US securities credentials. The application process can take about 6 months... So during this period the applicant who will be the...

Age has nothing to do with it... As long as you stay away from split-second trading strategies... Where speed and youth is at a premium. The kind you tend to find in churn and burn prop shops. I'm 47... And an infinitely better trader than I was 10 years ago... And I never thought I...