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Note for those trying to completely remove those files from your HD: A solution simpler than wiping and deep-formatting your HD is as follows. Find the cache folder of your browser. Make sure that those downloaded files are in it - or if you dont want to make sure (can't watch like i...

That old man is more like "you do all the work, follow me around, i'm homless but i'm a mystic and i can tell you everything about the occupiers, even though they hate me and imprison me quite frequently. so i've come to know them quite well, because they hate and i'm starving." it's just a...

I am trying to type something out to express my shock and anger for getting such a PM but I cannot. I am just... numb! Needless to say, I hate pedos more than any type sick human beings. Talking about what would happen if I were to meet this guy would probably be inappropriate. I truly hope...

Some interpret the news as bad for Germany because it will "pay the bill" of this solution. Some interpret those events as good for Germany since it means EU won't go down the drains so easily in their eyes. I guess somebody has to win.

Yep. Shares, in order to be shorted, need to be borrowed. Larger brokers have more clients to ask for borrowing, or even lend you their own. Makes perfect sense. If you really want to short something but can't borrow it, if you're brave or crazy enough, you can always go for options.

You mean IB as in Interactive Brokers? They have an iphone app. I use it and can place trades, close positions, etc. If not, i'm not sure what you mean by "1 click".

Insider trading not prevented by law for US lawmakers. I had no idea. I'm surprised, actually. That's very convenient for them. They should all start hedge funds, imo. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9645000/9645842.stm

I see where you're going. I posted a similar question not too long ago, here: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=231033 Short answer: it's probably best to use Sharpe Ratio. The main reason is StdDev. It will also give you much better results if the sample is larger...

Scalpers without stops and without a news service stop existing. :)

People underestimate psychology. I know i did when i first went from demo to live. The emotions get you if you loose. To overcome that, try trading real money in micro amounts, but large enough so you don't end up paying more than 100% of your profits in commission. Then slowly increase it. But...

There isn't a demand for it. People/traders don't want to work 24/7. Besides, the futures and FX are 23.45/5.5 anyway, and i trade those almost all hours with automation. I wouldn't want the weekends to be open, i need the rest, and to maintain my systems, etc.

I quoted your insults. Look JACK, let me explain something to you and put it quite simply. Reading what you write is such an incoherent torture, that even if what you claim were to be true (namely that you can extract 3xATR), and if that were the only strategy in the world that worked, i...

I prefer to calculate it as RR = Profit taken / abs(max drawdown during open position.) This changes if you use cost averaging, but then again if you have the time (or a platform that does it automatically) you should treat each new open position for cost averaging as a new input for the...

I see what you mean, but the hard part then becomes finding "desired average return" which depends on correlation of system vs others systems, leverage decrease, the actual sharpe ratios, etc. That then becomes the hard part, and obviously something i shouldn't be expecting anyone to give me...

Good morning! Yes, i read that post while still having my morning coffee and i thought it didn't make that much sense. I realized earlier that it is in fact what you say, so i didn't make much of it. Further, i used your advice for sharpe ratio, but i'm worried i can't quite make sense out of...

Try changing settings in control panel so that they are the same in power settings for when plugged in and unplugged. Sometimes windows will try to slow down certain apps to "conserve power", and they won't work so well so will increase overall CPU in total. Other than that, it's really weird...

Interesting approach kut2k2... I'd have to try it on other small samples to see how it pans out. The constraint of small sample will always be there, so in a way, the method needed needs to deal as best as possible with this constraint. I don't get what it is about this forum that people...

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Yes, there are many ideas how this (evolutionary ATS development) can be accomplished, but they're not easily shared. It's up to you to figure that out on your own. There are some hints if you search around, but the core logic of the process is something one needs to work out himself.

Without knowing the precise methodology for calculating your "strength" indices, nobody can comment. Are you factoring in normalization adjusted for volatility based on historical values, some sort of trend channel construction, or what? Other than that, we can see how it's trending just by...