Search results

Congrats asshole, you made my ignore list.

You are on to something. Yesterday I had a doctor appt in Beverly Hills. I usually drive through my old neighboorhood in Hollywood going west on Sunset then south on La Cienega. I kept seeing all these Bentleys. Lots of new ones but also a bunch of young guys in used convertibles. I was...

Brazil? Crime, corruption, disease, and poverty, that is the real Brazil. Your posts are tedious. You probably need a good wash.

lol Nutcake anyone? :D

I've never thought of myself as a nutcake survivalist but reading this thread reminds me that I have a safe full of silver maples, a coupla big storage racks of food and water, 4 1/2 cases of Absolut 100 and a mountain of 12ga and .308 ammo. I live in a hilltop fortress on a desert butte with 2...

lol I love that bakery/cafe across the street from Citadel. <G>

I'll sell :D One thing the Japanese found out in the 80s, you can't take Rockefeller Center home with you. Alot of their conquests are now reverting back to U.S. ownership at a discount. Thanks for holding that property and keeping up on the maintenance! See you on the next cycle!

I wouldn't get too excited about Chavez. Much of his rhetoric is intended for his consituents, mainly the poor folks in the hillside shantys of Caracas. The oil reserves of Venezuela are large but the crude has a extremely high sulfur content. The only country even remotely equipped to refine...

Anyone who has owned a home in socal over the last 20 years was probably underwater at one time. Its not a huge tragedy particularly if you like the house you have ended up in. If you can, just sit tight, make your mortage payment and don't freak out. Last time this happened (around '92) it...

Yeah, learning C++ and Java is good. But don't overlook the high-level interpreted languages like Python, MATLAB and others for development of systems. I like Matlab. I basically work from within Matlab and call Java and C-Mex as needed. Its easy to write an interface to your broker API...

TradeIdeas is nice. Your filters reside on their server and they sling results to you. I like the TradeIdeas Pro standalone version but they also have a web-based version. Scott

Not callin you a piker John, just making a joke. I'm a notorious scalper myself. Scott

I believe the correct term is "tick fucking". An example of correct usage might be "he was a 50-dollar tick fucking piker!". Please correct me if I am wrong :D Scott

Just my opinion (noting that your ET handle indicates you are probably a fan) but yesterday two books arrived at my house: "How I made 2 million in the Stock Market", first published in 1986 but recounting market activity in the late 50s, written by Nicholas Darvas and "Reminiscences of...

Actually that is a very clever idea. Someone could start a BearShare type file sharing service and charge a small monthly fee like 5 bucks to cover development of the front end. Use of BitTorrent comes to mind. One issue would be data formats and some standard(s) would have to be used...

Blackmail is against the law in the United States and most other civilized countries. You may want to reconsider your position. Your attitude is not likely to evoke any sympathetic responses from members here on ET. Most experienced traders know that their funds or securities may be tied...

Locals upgrading, moving to another part of town etc. For example my folks sold their home for 1.3 M having paid 49,500 bucks in 1974. It allowed them to get into another home in town (also inflated) and they don't seem to care if the market tanks and they end up under water 'cause they only...

One thing about ET is that intermingled with the pikers, posers and frauds are a few for-real guys making prophetic calls here and there. Its just a matter of figuring out who. :D Nice one. Scott

Lol. Real traders sleep on a couch at the colocation facility. :D Scott

Anseld, I'm working in Matlab as well. First I'm writing a trade simulation against on-demand historical data with a suite of accepted statistical measures of system performance. I want to be able to properly backtest *any* system and be able to compare results in a meaningful way...