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Say you have a $200 ticket to the concert tonight in one pocket and a $200 phone card in another. You just discovered that the $200 phone card was stolen. You say to yourself, "Darn, I'll have to buy another phone card tomorrow." But proceed to the concert. OTOH, if it was the ticket that...

It is common knowledge in the stock world that a stock will run up after warrant expiration, or after a secondary is priced. I guess here it is a similar situation. Call it manipulation if you like but it happens a lot.

You guys know so much about hedge funds, that you can summarily dismiss this guy's idea without even trying to read his paper. The news article, as usual, is a garbled interpretation of his idea and not surprisingly, doesn't really make much sense to people who knows something about trading...

3% in 2 weeks is not a crash. It's an "orderly retreat."

That wasn't fair. You do not "have to" learn c/c++ to use Linux. You can use the existing softwares there are (qtstalker etc) and they work just fine. So at this point Linux and Windows are about equal. (BTW, there is no qtstalker available for Windows so I'd say advantage Linux.) However, if...

I should add that in addition to using the customized indicator, it is trivial to write your own indicator plugin if you know a little c++. It took me 10 minutes to write one myself. The whole thing is beautifully modularized.

1. You can make your own indicators, but only based on combinations of existing indicators (e.g., vol, price, open interest, ROC, etc) using simple arithmetic or logic relationships. I guess in principle you could make any indicator with combinations of these but the process would become too...

Try QtStalker. You can find it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtstalker In addition to charts, it has a pretty good backtest engine with customizable rules. The only thing lacking is the scripting capability. It would probably be good enough for 90% of the people.