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If you're in the NFA's database, that means you applied for NFA membership. If you applied for NFA membership, that means somebody entered your data into the NFA's website. Somebody who already had an NFA login name and an NFA password. Whoever that somebody is, they can log into the...

If you're in the NFA's database, it gets updated about 2 weeks after you pass the Series 3. Just log in to the Registration section and check status. Another very helpful feature is at the very bottom (scroll down) of the menu on the left. There's a clicker thing that tells you what you need...

Perhaps it would be useful to ask yourself, Why? Why can't you find software that has all these features? Suppose the answer is, you can't find it because it doesn't exist. Then it may be useful to ask yourself a follow-up question, Why? Why doesn't someone make and sell/lease/rent/license...

The big movers so far are LME Nickel, Lead, and Tin. However owing to the paucity of inexpensive web based charts for LME metals, relatively few dilettante commentators have noticed.

Your Administrator (monthly accounting) ought to be able to suggest a few candidate auditors, for example www.schultzchez.com

Since this is the "Automated Trading" area, I will confine myself to 100% mechanical, algorithmic, hands-off, no-human-beings-involved, trading. Boxes trading with/against other boxes. It it robust? Not over the long term, in the John Maynard Keynes sense of the expression ("In the long...

The grown-up version of this same idea is: get registered and start a hedge fund / CTA business. The manager trades his own money on the signals, AND the manager trades client money on the signals, AND the clients pay the manager a slice of the profits. Precisely what people here are wishing...

In my opinion, (this) is the hardest futures contract to trade. I'm disregarding contracts with puny volume; naturally they are difficult to trade as well, but the tautology "low volume contracts are difficult to trade" is not exactly brimming with news.

One psychological reason why profit targets are appealing, is that they lock in gains. It is debilitating to watch a profitable trade turn into a loss while your trading method steadfastly refuses to signal an exit. This is painful and it is real. In an attempt to avoid the pain, some people...

Yes. They trade on FINEX where the symbol is SY ("Sterling over Yen" = SY). See http://www.nybot.com/marketInfo/contractSpecs/showCurrencySpecs.asp?productGroupID=19 Of course, your data vendor may use a different symbol than the exchange uses .... Most people enter and exit via "EFP"...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1383509#post1383509

Exploit the curse of dimensionality: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1380164#post1380164 You can make the workload of the reverse engineer grow as Order (N to the 20th) quite readily.

Kaufman, Trading Systems and Methods, 4th edition, chapter 17 is full of good ideas about this. Two that are especially intuitive are the Kaufman Efficiency Ratio (p.732) and the residuals from a linear regression calculation, r-squared (p.739). But you could just as easily make your own...

The classic one is described here http://tinyurl.com/2s34qp although I'd recommend also getting the book.

You might like the data provided by the Government agency called "Office of Federal Housing Oversight" at http://www.ofheo.gov/HPI.asp

For somebody who is truly frightened (paranoid) about theft, the comparison is betweenBecoming a programmer yourself, and trusting no outsiders whatsoever Paying someone else, an outsider, to do the programming - - - and trusting them How much is it worth to you, NOT to have to become a...

Perhaps you could specify it so there are a number of user-adjustable parameters or "knobs" that you can manipulate after the final product is delivered. So you can change your mind later, so you can run it on new stocks / futures / forexpairs / options as they pop up from time to time in the...

You have misunderstood. To "calculate whether a given day D is the 3rd Friday of the month", employ the single line return( (dayOfWeek(D) == FRIDAY) && (dayOfMonth(D) >= 15) && (dayOfMonth(D) <= 21) ) ;

Look at a calendar for 2007. June 2007 shows you that the earliest possible date of a 3rd Friday, is the 15th of the month. December 2007 shows you that the latest possible date of a 3rd Friday, is the 21st of the month. So the test is (DayOfWeek == FRIDAY) AND (15 <= DayOfMonth <= 21)...

Perhaps such a project is doomed to inconclusiveness beforehand. Within the very idea itself, there are numerous intrinsic problems, even if you were able to lay hands on mountains and mountains of the quantitative data that you crave:Some private money managers (including trendfollowers) do...