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Tick Data sells historical futures prices as a tick database. They include a software application that lets you construct 1-minute bars, 5-minute bars, etc, from the underlying ticks. It's not cheap but it is available. Click the link to download the .gif image

A widely used Blackjack simulator, CVData by Qfit Software (link), suggests that you simulate four hundred million hands of blackjack to get a reliable estimate of the mean ("Expected Value") and variance ("gut wrenching pain") of a blackjack card counting strategy. However they are trying to...

Remember that your task is to predict the future. Which parameter values will work well in the future? Backtesting and optimizing can help you discover some parameter values that worked well in the past.

I don't know whether I would like to invest in a hedge fund that times trade entries based upon the advice that a friend received from anonymous strangers on a chat board. Somehow it seems a bit less than professional.

The FIA is indeed a great resource. BUT there might possibly be situations and examples (both theoretical and real-world), in which "volume" doesn't tell the whole story. So I recommend you create your own "filters" that look for, and reject, futures contracts that don't meet YOUR criteria of...

We'll know in a few hours.

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference? -- Blackie Sherrod (ref)

Used to trade it, was required to register as a Large Speculator (wooo!) because I once had a position greater than the whopping 150 contract threshold that divided Small from Large specs. Had to mail my registration form to the CFTC office in the World Trade Center, NYC. :( But the...

What is to be gained by endorsing her? This "wouldn't it be nice" fantasy of being named Senator will (gently) fizzle and die, very soon, and she'll return to previous endeavors (eating apples through a picket fence, etc.) For Democrats, the cost/benefit analysis of keeping your mouth shut is...

Here you go, these may help: (webpage 1) (webpage 2)

The secret that all the Guru's are desperate to keep hiden Have a look at an English grammar book and note the difference between possessives and plurals. Also note the spelling of "hidden" with six letters.

Last Trading Day=Today Last Delivery Day=12/31 If it's going to explode in a supernova, there's not a lot of time left. Audio commentary: http://www.barbneal.com/wav/ltunes/yosemite/Sam57.wav

Do healthcare costs affect other industries too? Why aren't other businesses going bankrupt because of these costs?

One place to start would be http://tinyurl.com/7yqup7 Another place to start would be the help desk at optionsexpress. Maybe "someone" set up your account in a way that prevents the website from giving you access to the options pages.

Perhaps (this) which is available at Interactive Brokers, Tradestation, and many other small-account, retail oriented operations. Recent chart below. you can download the image by right clicking:

Sometimes a good tactic for getting filled between the bid and ask is to let the order work for three or four hours and then, if not filled, have your broker call down to the floor and Cancel the order. More often than not the MM will say, umm, wait a sec, umm, oh yeah, you are filled at your...

So you're a bad trader. So what? You might have been a bad dentist or a lousy doctor or a very poor nurse too. You might have paid lots of money for extra schooling and spent lots of time in school plus "residency" (medical speak for journeyman training), only to find yourself out of a job...

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Last Trading Day=12/29 Last Delivery Day=12/31 If it's going to explode in a supernova, there's not a lot of time left. http://www.nymex.com/gol_fut_termin.aspx

Excel has a correlation function "CORREL" which might be able to tell you how correlated are ES, YM, and NQ