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    How do you determine what your edge is?

    You mean average return over SD. I can see you have both reward and risk factored in, like CAR/MDD. I think mine is more indicative or direct. CAR is best measure of reward; and MDD is very pertinent to futures trade, as 2% draw down in points of ES means blowing up.
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    How do you determine what your edge is?

    Best single parameter is car/mdd, Compounded Annual Return over Maximum Draw Down.
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    Confused graduate HELP!

    Go to JP, you will see the whole world of trading! Money will come, do not worry about it now. Get your foot in firt.
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    Triple-Quadruple witching hour on Friday

    It is here: http://mam.econoday.com/byweek.asp
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    Grey Box Trading on the Rise

    Except the part that big house can buy legislation and pass regulations in their favor, there has never being a better time for retail traders to beat the big house. Technology has leveled the playing field. However, you need to be all: business strategist, system architect, integrator...
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    A Joke: Mr. President, would you like to have a check

    to pay off national debt?
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    IB breaks down again this morning!!!

    I had performance issue with the latest version. I switched to previous version, it worked fine so far. Trading system is critical, should not be a test bed. I heard space shuttle uses used chips, even though less advanced,but reliable. We may learn something from that.
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    Dr. Doom's most dire prognosis on U.S. economy

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/32837255
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    Broker with Demo account supporting Indian Stocks

    IB does it.
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    China Government ‘Strongly Opposes’ U.S. Tire Tariff Imposition

    Enough politics on China; try something different from China: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVMXEnL8liM&feature=PlayList&p=142F94836EF0AAD3
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    Confessions of a loser who need to quit

    Trading, especially discretionary trading, requires a touch character. I never heard of any whining person became a successful trader later on. There is no crying shoulders. Does anyone know any exception?
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    Is shorting a dead end street?

    One of my systems fades a trend 50%+ of time and profitable.
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    Market Place

    What can happen in a market place?
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    Danger in market place

    Be aware when you are in the market place, either in Baghdad or...
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    Tip of the day: obtaining futures testing data

    Maximum time frame for nqu9 minute data I can get is around 6 month; but I can get 2.5 years worth of cash index data. I test on both. The cash data is not perfect, it is a compromise.
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    China Says First jet to Cost Less Than Boeing, Airbus

    A significant number of rudders/tails and other Boeing plane parts are made in China. I do not recall exact number. There is one model of AirBus made in China. You guys must stay aground. You pathetic ignorant BS.
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    Tip of the day: obtaining futures testing data

    What do you mean? S&p 500 Index cash vs. ES, big difference? Not to me, the two curves overlaps, except at extream points. with may be one tick difference.
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    Confessions of a successful trader

    #1 After you trade futures, you never look back at equity trading, too boring; #2 after you automate your trading system, you will never look back at discretionary trading, too much effort. :D
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    Tip of the day: obtaining futures testing data

    You may know this already: Long term futures data is hard to obtain, given the nature of futures contract is time dependent. I have a solution to it. Futures data values are almost always proportionate to cash data values. It is easy to obtain cash data, use that for long term extensive testing...
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    ALERTS/ALARM help!

    I use IB and verizon phone company, I have alarm/alert. Your broker should have this kind of service, email/phone/siren, etc.
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