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You're patty caking around something here so let's call it what it is. Institutions can compute where any client will be liquidated and move the board to tilt that client. They also have first access to the order flow and depth. They can bucket orders, charge commissions, execute large orders in...

Good stuff. Can we get a link to your blog? I can add a few more differences that are important. In live poker you know who's at the table with you and who's in the hand. You can act on that information. In trading, you have no idea who's on the sidelines waiting to jump in with orders and...

Trading bot results for Friday 8-19-2011: -0.8% (S&P 500: -1.49%)

Trading bot results for today: -2.21% (S&P 500: -4.45%) Well I was wrong about the bottom in gas prices. Gasoline at the pump will be going lower after today's rout in oil. Oil only has a little further to go to achieve the extremely low oil valuation we experienced in the beginning of 2009...

In the prospectus it clearly states that all of these vix derivative ETNs are expected to be almost worthless by 2033 (from memory) is the year they mature and are cash settled. You should figure out how it is that ALL of the varieties will become almost worthless in ~20 years. Today gave you a...

Trading bot results for today: -0.15% (S&P 500: +0.1%) I bought 32 shares of FSG this morning at $42.75 based on my analysis from last night. Since I trade at IB, I got comp'ed the commission thanks to a deal FactorShares struck with IB. I know it was only a dollar saved today, but I need...

Trading bot results for today: 0% (S&P 500: -0.97%) Today I want to note that last week had the biggest weekly volume for both $GOLD and GLD according to stockcharts.com. It also was a major breakout above a 3 year upper channel line. This is no coincidence. My view is that gold is just...

Yes. They do productive work like construction.

Epic quote! Seriously though you have got to stop caring about the outcome with the girls in your life. It feels like its your whole world, but as soon as you learn how, it is easier to bring new girls into your life than fix broken friend zone relationships with girls you already blew out. Try...

Trading bot results for today: +2.14% (S&P 500: +2.18%) The bot has taken off a lot of its shorts without replacing them over the past 2 trading days. It is now positioned only slightly defensively. As this pertains to my discretionary short in KIE, I have a difficult decision to make. It is...

Those apple stores have been chock full of people for years. I used to think it was Peter Lynch gold until one day I found out what everyone is doing in there: waiting around for a tech in the back room to fix their broken iphone or ipod.

BAC/XLF

JNK/LQD

EWZ/SPY

Here's a few interesting ratio charts:

Impressive... that's a lot of work friend.

This has shaped up to be a quiet Sunday open, with gold slightly down and stocks slightly up. Since my hypothesis of an institution going down over the weekend did not play out, my current view is that the market will enter a consolidation period. The bot is still in a very defensive stance...

Trading bot results for Friday 8-12-2011: +0.7% (S&P 500: +0.53%) I think I'll start posting the graph of the trading bot each week starting from the point this journal began because seeing it ties together these daily updates in a meaningful way.

Trading bot results for today: +1.75% (S&P500: +4.63%)