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@ scalpmaster IMHO, the problem is not that you can’t find algorithms producing spectacular returns. The problem is to find algorithms producing spectacular returns after transaction costs. There are properties of prices that can be exploited algorithmically but commissions and slippage can...

This practice is followed from someone having a controlling interest on the stock or an agreement with those who have controlling interest on the stock. The upward movement begins and the momentum plus the trading volume plus the rumors attract small speculators in the stock and the distribution...

It’s illegal in most markets. Usually a variation of this strategy is used. It’s called triangular transactions (usually the scheme is B is buying from A and sells to C and then C sells back to A). The cost is only the transaction cost, and the strategy is used to manipulate prices. In a...

Well, two out of two Seikos I bought had serious problems within a short time period. A kinetic watch that can’t keep the time due to capacitor-recharging failure problems and a perpetual calendar with a non-rotating calendar mechanism. Maybe Seiko expects their customers to pay 500 Euros for...

Their watches used to be OK. Not anymore. If the monitors have the same quality then :(

As a5519 suggested in theory the estimation of this system's true average is between [2.4, 4.4] points with 95% confidence. Your average trade will be between [-2.5,9.3] with 68% confidence and between [-8.4,15.2] with 95% confidence assuming of cource a normal distribution for your returns..

Thorp's approach

:) Actually (if I remember correctly) he designed the first portable computer timing the spinning of the roulette and calculating the probabilities of the ball dropping in a specific roulette arc, gaining an edge. The device was put in a shoe and timing info was passed with the toes. I think he...

Of course money management requires a positive expectancy to begin with. No MM scheme can make money without positive expectancy. Say that log(S/So) is normally distributed and you can spot assets with mean 0 and standard deviation vol (log(S/So) -> N(0,vol)). Then S has a positive expectancy...

Actually what they usually mean with the above statement is that IF you are able to find volatile assets (preferably uncorrelated) and IF you rebalance between them constantly with minimum transaction cost then you've got a profit. Not a huge one though.

Without the dongle they can't login your account. Thats the purpose of the dongle. To produce a unique personalized key changing every session based on a hardware stored password and an encryption algorithm. That can't be duplicated by anyone not having the dongle or direct access to the banks...

:) One I can think of is a dead battery when you want to login at 11 pm.

Some banks provide their customers with a hardware key that produces a unique key for each login session in addition to their password. That way even if a keylogger is installed by hackers inside your PC and intercepts your login and password information, they can¢t connect to your account...

For example I noticed that a legit windows application was consuming cpu time even when the pc was idle. I inspected in the lower pane the attached dll files with this application and noticed an unsigned one with an unfamiliar name. A right click and google of the name revealed it was part of a...

I am not a software engineer but I think the task of capturing with a trojan the exchange of input between ¡on screen keyboards¢ and the operating system is trivial. It will offer protection only in limited cases of keyloggers not designed to capture this exchange. In one case that a...

When a quantity has a value of 1000 and a confidence interval of plus minus 200, using two decimal digits in your calculations instead of adding integers will not help you much. This applies to fundamental analysis when a private investor has access only to publicly known data. This book is...

This excellent and easy reading book will help you.... How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers by John A. CPA Tracy http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Financial-Report-Wringing/dp/0471478679/sr=8-1/qid=1160812435/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7520824-8231966?ie=UTF8

A few years back I remember there was stand alone software that detected candle patterns based on fuzzy logic but I don’t think it is available anymore. Today there are also some add-ins for other programs based on fuzzy. So I don’t think there is a problem coding a backtesting of candle...

I think Nassim Taleb is a nice, polite and very knowledgeable guy. Two or three times I have emailed him he responded promptly without having to ¡gain¢ something from me. I don¢t know how successful is with his trading but I suspect someone managing to be many years in the market through...

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