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Smart money says that the Chinese are phasing in the buying of gold and slowing dollar investments. The Chinese are a superstitious people. This is not a dig, it's just true. Chinese buildings don't have a floor 4 because it's unlucky. Their word for 4 sounds like just like the word for...

Maybe of more use would be to take an actual money making strategy (that no longer works so you're not giving away the golden goose) and use that to lead us from dev to profit. Any of us can come up with a strategy that is nominally profitable on a backtest but doesn't actually beat the...

How about this: Where can I get a historical list of Russel 3000 member stocks? That's a big enough list to limit myself to. Example, I want to backtest to 10 years ago. What were the companies on the R3k in 1999? Also, can eSignal / IQFeed give me data for delisted companies?

gaak this is the worst worded teaser question I have ever seen. 14 pages and I'm still clueless. What happens if four or five heads come up? The OP says "a fair coin will be flipped five times in a row" not "up to 5 times".. Are those wins or losses? Or does the game automatically end after 3...

I want to make sure that I don't bake in survivorship bias on my backtests. Can we query eSignal with something like "give me quotes for the 100 largest companies by market cap on 1/1/1980" have it make sure to include companies that have since gone out of business?

Also, what happens when you run this strategy on a company that cratered like AIG, GM or C? Does our short side provision make us money? Or do we chase these stocks all the way down and bleed?

If we would have followed this strategy as-is, we would have almost doubled our money across the backtest period. But if would have just bought and held those same five stocks you noted for the backtest, we would have more than tripled our money. (And if we put $1000 at risk on each...

What is your definition of "adding liquidity" as it relates to commission rebates?

Buy low sell high. Plz send 10% of proceeds to my account in Nigeria where I am working on an inheritance investment. kthxbye

First of all, love this thread. I actually fount the conflict between BoWo and Talon to be highly valuable. I learned what to care about what to ignore from their interaction. It reminded me of those old Point/CounterPoint skits on SNL with Jane Curtin and Dan Akroyd where they would talk about...

or Lehman Bros.! :D

lol best run-on sentance I've read all week!

My aunt and uncle lived in their house for 35 years. Paid the 30 yr fixed to completion and sold it a few years later at the absolute peak of the market. Cashed out, they now rent. Dumped their dollars into tax-free muni's and the interest pays their rent. I'm sure there are others. As long...

I thought college was wonderful. Parties, booze, chicks. Best 6 years of my life. Wish I had a degree to show for it, but I sure had fun anyway!

lolololollolo!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!11 gold, dude, absolute gold do keep up the good work

Perhaps I should refocus this question towards winning traders who would have something to withdraw.. :) I don't want to have my broker set up a paper trading account and scamper off with my dough. Basically all I have to do is make sure a broker is registered at FINRA and I'm good to go? Is...

I like the direction my thread took. :) To clarify a few things; hell yes I am cocksure I will be able to outearn the average person, forever. By definition, half the people will underearn the average and half the people will overearn. I'm smarter, harder working, a faster learner, and a...

I accounted for the rise in property owning costs in the non-mortgage spending that went up 10% (keeping pace with inflation): that pipe that burst this year cost your $500 to fix and next year the plumber will charge you 10% more, or $550. And I guess I should have said MY wage will keep...

Have any of you ever had trouble getting your cash out of a trading account?

Let me talk macro down to micro for the sake of arguement for a second so I can talk to my crazy in-laws this holiday season. Let's say you buy a house, 30 year fixed mortgage, $1000 a month payment, and you bring home $2000 a month at a good steady job with COLA adjustments that keep pace...