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From my experience, trading the 1-5 minute charts is impossible because the spread is too big of a handicap to overcome. The only time I've had a modicum of success when when I used the 60 min- 1 day charts. But then the problem was finding good setups because there were only a few liquid pairs...

I understand what you're saying, but there's a problem with that way of thinking. Say for instance a U.S. soldier is a good Christian man and firmly believes that when he dies he will go to heaven, and furthermore, he will certainly go to heaven because he is fighting on behalf of a 'just'...

I agree completely, and I think McCarthyism is a perfect analogy. Let's take what happened to Bill Mahr for example: All the man said was that the pilots on 9/11 were brave not cowards. That is an absolutely true statement. They were immoral, misguided, even evil, but they flew themselves into...

Ok, I've been paper trading FX on oanda for a while now and I just can't seem to get an edge. Here are the reasons I feel that FX trading may be giving me trouble: - oanda's charts are primative and I don't want to pay $50/m for esignal so i've only dealt with them - I haven't been able to...

Use an offshore brokerage http://dominica-taxhaven.com/trade.html. About getting the cash into an account, couldn't you physically fly the stuff over in a chartered jet? Not cheap, but if you're dealing with large sums you gotta do what you gotta do.

Wasn't Hillary Clinton involved in some type of money laundering scam with futures a long time ago? I read about it somewhere, I'm being serious.

i'd really like to know...:D

I'm contemplating going live with my system, but don't want to risk a lot of capital to start with. I hear IB allows odd lots, but what will be the real world effects, as far as execution speed/fill, of trading odd lots? I'm only talking stocks with 1mm daily volume and swing trading, so I'll...

why add/subtract from positions at all?

When did people on this thread start speaking Greek?

I like the idea of an external hard drive. It sounds like a smart idea to have around for back up. Is it just plug and play, or do I have to reconfigure my computer to recognize the new hard drive every time I plug it in?

I think I'll email support (who I think is one or two guys who own the company), and tell them I'll buy the full version if they program my strategy into WL language. Why would they say no? It'll probably take them 10 minutes to program my relatively simple strategy for $650 pay.

I just downloaded the demo, and my God that program is intimidating. The only experience I have with Pascal was a computer programming class i took in high school...which I failed. Oh wait, ya I failed, which means I took that class twice. Anywho, that was a while ago. Does anyone have...

Thanks for the responses.

I'm getting a new computer and I'm wondering how I should go about transfering my some 5000 mp3's. My immediate thought was to burn them all onto CD-R's, but then it occured to me that I could network the computers together. I know it's possible, but I have no idea how to do it. Would networking...

What firm is he trading at in Austin?

2 things: When people speak of TA beating FA, what do they really mean? Do they mean in terms of raw return? Then I would agree, it the last bullmarket FA would certainly dominate. But what about in terms of risk adjusted return? Those who use FA usually use no defense, which means they could...

Why not just give you the savings up front? Is it because they're hoping a certain % of people simply won't request their rebates? But even if that's the case, is the hassle of dealing with the rebates worth the savings? I don't get it. Can someone explain this little mystery to me?

[/B] I never understood how people could buy a used car over the internet. It just seems too risky.

Wow, I didn't know my question was so incomplete...I was talking about stocks. And why would backtesting be any different from real money? I'm also talking about one market, the U.S. stock market. You're right, you could take into consideration winning streaks, drawdown, etc. to optimize a...