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Solid State Drive is first thing that comes to mind, also decide for filesystem designed to handle lots of small files. When it comes to SSD I have a personal experience - a test that takes 40 seconds on SATA, takes about 0.4 seconds on SSD. That was a lot of random access, your improvement...

Won't happen. Too many people might be profitable.

I wonder if he means 2k in one market or on more markets. If the latter, then with 100 markets he needs only 20 trades on each, so 2 trades a year mean just 10 years of data.

Apparently some thinks so. Vide LTCM, LTCM v2.0, Niederhoffer, Niederhoffer v2.0 and many more.

Well, assuming he trades eod, then yes, you're right - he predicts where the market is going for the next day. And he's predictions are maybe 51% right. The point is, he's not anticipating a change in direction. He looks at current direction, reacts to it, predicts that it won't change for at...

Saying that Trend Following is dead is like saying that Shumacher can't drive any more b/c he hasn't finished recent race. He's still Schumacher and can drive F1 better than any anonymous a*hole on a web forum. Most trend followers have been through thick and thin, and will make new equity...

I wonder if it makes any sense to simulate options' prices and back test trading system that way. Assuming I will hold positions for a long time (90 days, hold position until expiration) and I plug current volatility as IV into BS to get option price that I sell or buy. Would this be at all...

Yes, I found it too. Nice platform. The only problem I have is that I can't find options for currencies etc, only stocks. Am I right?

I'm interested in paper trading options. I tried ToS but futures trading on demo account is enabled only for funded accounts. Any ideas?

Ok, I didn't post for a while as my account is going from bad to worse, but I think it's good time for an update. Account Value is lower than it was at the time of last post, but not much lower. Last two years (or year and a half for me) were awful. Harding has first two losing years in a...

Forgot to write about opened short EurJpy @ 100.81 Opened short EurUsd @ 1.2854 Opened long UsdChf @ 0.9394 Account Value 150k

Glad I could help.

Opened short Oil @ 89.80 Opened short AudUsd @ 1.0165 Account Value 157k

Self learnt. Good? I'm in historical drawdown.

Two long term indicators. One gives me direction, second (SMA) gives me a price level. Both set to 260 days.

Closed short EurUsd with loss -521 Closed long Palladium with loss - 189 Closed long UsdChf with loss -1.3k Closed short EurJpy with loss -1.1k Account Value 166k

Closed long AudUsd with loss -2k Account Value 169k

Opened long Palladium @ 653.15 Account Value 169k

Closed long Nikkei with loss -3.5k Account Value 173k

The more I read this thread and about Patak, the more I'm convinced that Patak has a perfect method to make money in the markets. Won't share details though, as I will be shoot down. Patak - you're the genius.