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So you agree that all those analysts and "pro" traders who took part in the competition are no better than monkeys.

In fact I found Vista not that bad, after you spend some time removing sidebar, UAC, aero and other crap. Its memory management is noticeably smarter, meaning less paging, less lockups, faster boot, more applications running with the same RAM etc

It also shows unsane level of crookedness and manipulations in this trading "industry"

ha ha ha loved it Can that be considered a proof of efficient market theory?

Hard disk crashed :( That's because I choose simple but inefficient method of storing quotes. Initially I tried to store quotes in MySQL database but it's certainly not built for tables of 20+ gigabytes. Even simple queries take very long and unpredictable amounts of time. In case of power...

First month was negative, though its early to draw any conclusions on only 5 round trades. As I suspected, my fills are worse than in simulation, but I hope to improve that. One day for example, I had to enter a buy order and received an error "Logged out because of inactivity". Wierd...

So far my profit from trading can be summarized in this table (US$): OpenTick subscription -4 Notarial copy of ID -21 Courier mail to Questrade -21 Wire transfer fee -37 For the total loss of $82 before doing a single trade...

Many thanks to Emil for investing disproportional amount of time into for solving my problem, and to paul_alan for intervening on my behalf. That was probably my fault by choosing a cheap lawyer to do the notarial work, but please remember this is Piker's journal.

So far this is list of requirements for the Id copy that you are required to produce: 1) The Id copy should be notarized by a lawyer 2) Said lawyer should have a Web site 3) Said Web site should be in English 4) Lawyer should be able to speak English, they will call her to verify...

In other words, the only profitable traders are utilizing some form of market making algorithm? No hope for alpha predictors, in your opinion? Just wondering

I guess if I do not receive approval within a month, I'd request my money back and try alliancetrader.com. All that situation where they took the money and then started to play approval games, is very wierd. Hope I did not fell victim to Web criminals.

Assembly is for sissies. Real men program in binary codes. Only this way you can support all the latest processor instructions.

There is a way not to trade but still make 100%-risk-free money from trading. Just teach me your trading methods, and if I use them and make money, I promise you 10% of what I earn using your methods!

No luck so far. Initially they approved my account and told me to send funds. I did so, and then they revoked the approval. Now my money sits in the account but I cannot trade. They keep asking for a check from Canadian bank in Canadian currency. I explain that have no account with any...

"Mathematicians estimate money in proportion to its quantity, and men of good sense in proportion to the usage that they may make of it. " Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752)

Average return on investment is below 50%, right. But so is return on insurance policies. Buiyng lottery ticket may be a perfectly rational decision for someone who has very low chances to become rich by other means.

I am going to test that experimentally. Now in the process of opening a trading account and throwing all me life's savings ($2000) on it.

How can one quantify the probability that US defaults on its Treasures if there were no such event in the past?

Brilliant!

I think it is not possible and I'll explain why. Brokers, like all gambling operators, need their customers to believe that winning big is possible. If there were just one account making 1.5% a day over long time, the broker would not pass such an opportunity to advertise its business. We...