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    Marketsurfer's bold gold proclamation

    Again..... the Surf Man gets his head pounded by the same market. Move on to something you know or stop the pain by bucking the long term trend.... come on bro....trading 101 main rule. I know you understand that....but fail to leave your emotional need to be right out of...
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    Vtrader

    Risk based haircut which is typically between 10% to 15% based on index or sym vol. The biggest advange lies in off setting risk in futures world with cash products where markets are tighter and this cross magin across asset classes can help your returns by 500 basis points...
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    Marketsurfer's bold gold proclamation

    You a "Tool" Surf and need to change that battery in the Magic 8 ball. Yours is broke.
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    Trend Following Super Fund SLAMMED !!

    I can not help myself and what to chime in on the calls our so smart Surf Dog has made the last few years I have been wasting time on this board ....but he has been so wrong it actually hurts to think about his calls. But it sure is fun to rip him and he seems like a...
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    Who Is Don Bright?

    I was with Bright a while back and that experience taught me that I needed to look at many different asset classes and NOT just stock scalping or pairs trade. Having many options to execute your plan is key to surviving this business and I could not do that at...
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    So this is what low-vol looks like...

    adapt or die slowly.!!!!!!!
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    There are two types of trends

    Add high climatic volume and big moves at the end and beginning of these phases.
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    Auto trading newbie

    Canned programs are usually as static as you can get and when the environment or volatility change than you are going to see a different sloping curve than you see now. I understand you are starting out but this business is all about the hours and mistake...
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    Good prop firms in San Francisco bay area

    zero if you are talking about real prop trading.
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    Updates/second for futures platforms ?

    Unfiltered streaming with Ninja/ Zen but you can throttle down if your CPU can not keep up to refresh every 100MM or so.
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    XP Life Extends to 4/30/10... T3400 Still The Bomb!

    I run these in my office and love the 2 express video slots and value for the $$$$$. Load up the RAM and you got a perfect trade computer. I have outfitted 6 offices over the past 7 years and this set up with 6 24 inch monitors is sick. Typical complete...
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    Overoptimization

    I never optimize more than two parameters at any time and than make sure we do not take the best performing and pick a realistic equity curve and than use some portfolio management tool to build a portfolio of non correlated systems..... the part of your process is...
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    How long before you were fully automated?

    RiceRocket....you are a tool and simply do not have the skill set to make 100% automation profitable for you, thus you call it undoable or bullshit. You have your opinion and since you did not really research before you commented, you made yourself look pretty bad...
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    Morgan Stanley Says Sell Best S&P 500 Rally Since ’38

    This will be the next big bailout that will be needed to keep the "systemic failure" from happening. It will come and that will be your buying opportunity and test of the bottom. Just my opinion.
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    Dr. Clayburg

    Without slippage which will happen in all real trading...I have buckets of systems that make money until this is added in. This looks like a scam to me and I give out my sheets as proof of PL and anyone that does not is not making money. On a few of our short...
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    Senior S&L Regulator Says Government Engaging in massive Cover-Up of Economic Crisis

    This country is fucked up and these policy makers are just as fucked up. What a shame that this will be the last prosperious period in this countries history. Time to learn a new lauguage and follow Jim Rogers to Singapore.
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    30 inch DELL and what video card to use so STERLING won't lag???

    Low memory in your video card can 100% slow down the quotes and charts and also running 64 bit computer on 32 bit software and how MS.net works with two can alos slow it down.. Learned first hand on larger monitors above 24 inch. Get the Cad cards and speed...
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    AIG Was Responsible For The Banks' January & February Profitability

    This shit gets better and better. These gov't official and inside politician are the scum bags are the earth. I am looking for the best place to move to and never pay one more dime of tax dollars to this corrupt and fucked up country that is following the...
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    backtest for 3 years, blow up in 3 days,

    Datamine vs dump your variables into a computer and let it spit out your roadmap. That will never work and you must have some trading edge or some dynamic feature that will adjuts to the changing environment. Plus the knowledge of your systems and...
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    How do you catch falling knives?

    You catch it right in the heart most of times.......wear armour and maybe you survive this knife attack. I would try to grab the handle on the way back up as that side is not as sharp and you can hang on for the ride.
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