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Sorry, bad choice of words. I guess I was thinking about idle USD denominated funds sitting in money market accounts.

Consider putting some of your extra cash in MERKX.

Yeah, I too was surprised to learn that it is a widely used term http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backwardation

I thought it was pretty obvious this thread was about Tim Sykes??? Why comment on somebody you know nothing about?

Yep. The US is pretty much in the same situation as many recent home "owners" who are underwater with their mortgages.

If I were a loner who lived alone in my appt. and never went out and I died, it might take long while before the neighbors noticed the stench (especially during the winter months if my heat wasn't turned on). However, if my mailbox were overflowing with IB statements then it might only take...

Here is an interesting opinion: http://www.tigersoft.com/Tiger-Blogs/10-31-2007/index.html

Maybe they were getting complaints from users of some pariah system that only have one mouse button and cannot "right-click" without the use of both hands?

I have used the permanent license version for almost a year and I find that it is great and highly-customizable. The main reason I got it what because it was one of the few platforms that supported C#. I use it primarily for backtesting auto-trading systems that operate on tick-level data. I...

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What's his handle? This being ET, I'm sure it wasn't NickBarings.

How many houses does one need? I am happy with my one house.

Buy the DIP! NOW!!! (for a 1pt bounce)

I just got AT&T Elite DSL as a backup to my cable modem and it didn't work out too well for me. This level of service has the modem syncing with the telco's DSLAM at a higher frequency and is therefore more susceptible to noise. If you are located too far from the DSLAM or Remote Terminal, the...

I wouldn't do that with a 9mm, nor with a shotgun as mentioned in another post. You risk getting a ricochet. A .308, on the other hand, would pass cleanly through all platters.

Huh? 15 tosses could hardly be considered as approaching infinity - only an idiot would use the Central Limit theorem to draw any kind of conclusion. However, if after 1 million tosses you get 55% heads I would accept the Central Limit theorem's implication that the coin is probably biased.

You might also want to consider buying your own server and colocating it in a datacenter. The most generic kind are those catering to web-servers (do a google on "server colocation"). For about $200 a month you can get a 1U rackspace for your server, uninterrupted power, 100 MBps internet...

Backtesting an automatic trading bot with historical data but sending the orders (market orders) out to a live account. Within a few seconds, I'd lost about $2500 buying at ask and selling at bid about 150 ES contracts one contract at a time.

How come the number of trades in the backtest changes as the position size changes? I thought you were comparing the same trading strategy (entries and exits) under various position sizing strategies. I would have expected the number of trades under each column to be the same.

Ultimately, it is just another oscillator like the MACD or stochastics. The main advantage is that the ergodic does not saturate as quickly as other common oscillators (when tuned to approximately the same level of responsiveness). For example, during a long and continuing trend the stochastics...