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I'm not a believer in the whole "fibonacci levels in the markets are magic" theory, but if you are, (and I know you're out there, otherwise, my library would not have so many books on just this topic), you will love this story...

Difficult to tell because the original image is of low quality, but the blur around the blue digits is definitely suspicious. :) ELA: ELA page: http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/8813c0b/

KC & The Sunshine Band - Please don't go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-l5FyA3pgo Hopefully, you can't kick the addiction! :p But if you do, crap!, I'll miss you asiaprop. I learned some interesting stuff from your previous posts. You're one of the few mathematically inclined people...

I LOVE this thread. euclid is the ONLY guy speaking some sense (, and there are a couple of quite successful traders in here, too, LOL!) :D For some reason, I am reminded of the survey which found that people who rank the poorest in mathematical skills ranked themselves as being...

Julian, along with backups, as others have suggested, also check out http://www.truecrypt.org/. TrueCrypt is your trading secrets' friend. :)

SomeYoungGuy, I looked through my bookmarks and did not find anything similar / thought-provoking. But I guess Wikipedia articles on the same topic(s) should be useful.

Mike805, gotcha, thanks. The mathematics is way over my head. Here's a nice American Scientist article on optimal stopping that I had coincidentally saved for later reading. http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/knowing-when-to-stop/1 Edit : So yes, you were right, and this is...

Mike805, your Excel sheet seems to work only because RANDBETWEEN(-1, 1) results in 2 cases (-1 and 0) where C is still the "High", and only 1 case where R is a High (for 1), i.e., 2/3 = 66.6%. If you change that to RANDBETWEEN(-2, 2), you get 60% because now, there are 3 cases (-2, -1, and 0)...

Link to ZX Spectrum advert ('80s) "48K memory : still more usable memory than leading competitors" :p

My neighbour had a ZX Spectrum, and you had to load the programs (mainly video games) by playing them on a cassette tape recorder. My own first computer was an Intel 8088-based PC. 3.5 MHz. Digger rocked on it, baby! And it had a Turbo button that I was afraid to touch. I think that made it go...

intradaybill, I believe you are a successful trader and have a good grasp of statistics, but I think you are wrong on this one. I think APS is just an implementation of Genetic Algorithms, which is an optimization/search technique over a high-dimensional space (in this case, that space is the n...

Not true for the average poster on ET. :p But seriously, writing down my thoughts/ideas on trading every day (or at least regularly) was one of the best things I ever started.

I believe that the number of terrorists in this world has hugely increased since the U.S. started meddling in others' affairs. In fact, the U.S. is now in a position where it has literally assured itself of an endless stream of future terrorist attacks by terrorists that it has itself created...

Depends on which index you are trading and which way most people placed their binary option bets. :p The Indian market and the HSI, for example, seem hopelessly manipulated towards the close to expire just above/below some barriers.

Questions : if it worked for 18 consecutive profitable years, why do you need to teach it for a fee? If a "ET newbie" made $12K last month from it, I suppose you can make at least that much per month, no? That's $144K per annum, which is not bad. At least, it would be enough to not have to sell...

Incorporating protects you from personal bankruptcy. I have not reached there yet, but it sounds like the natural thing to do when going professional, even if you're just trading for yourself.

:p But remember, "It’s more like staring at the instrument panel of a jet while eavesdropping on the pilots, " eh?! Whenever I see an article on day trading in the mass media, I start with a groan. We all know what's coming next: incorrect generalizations, misplaced glorification, et al.

Outlawed, towards the end of the thread, you should find two large Word documents with all the concepts (sorry, you'll have to do a bit of searching to find that; I don't have a link to it). The first 5 to 10 pages are very good, too. Though the basic concept is very simple, I noticed that...

:p Thanks for that. Good one!

Bays, I suggest : Learn Excel for finance from gummy stuff (http://www.financialwebring.org/gummystuff/), start off with some concept from there which you like, and learn VB as a part of fiddling with that concept. I think you will find that more useful than just learning VB by itself...