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My only wish in all this is to keep simple well defined subjects within sensible bounds. For me "The Stochastic Indicator" became chaotic right from the start, in spite of some kind souls suggesting I print out a ream of paper in order to find my way in it. The fact that a new thread got...

I just went trough the "Classifieds ›› I am selling my eSignal 1-year futures RT package at half price" thread, where sys80 tells us his sad story. I could not help thinking back about "How much $$ is required to be Scalp Day Trader ?". A quick answer out would perhaps be that poor sys80...

Could somebody, please point me to a reference on "cointegration" in the sense that it is used here. (I often use statsoft's "Electronic Statistics Textbook" searches for quick clarifications - it did not return anything, which is unusual)

Many recent posts talked about J-trader, X-trader, Pats and of course TWS. I would like to discuss in this thread only matters relevant to persons doing 100% automated trading software. Of course, IB's TWS is very popular and well known. In spite of some complaints, let's not forget that it...

jrweiner, Maybe the question is not that difficult to answer. I may not be 100% right on this but this what I believe happens. If you buy stock at a broker you most of the time do not take delivery but leave the stock with the broker. If you read the fine print on your agreement you will...

Hi CalTrader, Maybe, maybe not. It all depends on what you mean by "unless you are trading high-leverage". What if leverage is too low? This fellow will not be able to eat. From what point on does leverage become dangerous so that 50K will be a "little light"? All good questions but we need...

Sorry monkey, This is a valid point. I blindly followed into the steps of other(s) on the ET board without giving it a thought, I should have. I will stop using this. Nononsense

Thank you for pointing this out. This is probably true, but I was talking about getting data from EUREX here and this is what I picked from many telephone calls to Frankfurt that these offices do not seem to be communicating very well between each other. THIS IS WHAT I HEARD FROM THESE PEOPLE...

I'm glad you believe this. I also believed them with their Visual stuff 6 years ago. Trader.NET, I'm sure they will also pull the rug from under your C#.NET thingie a couple of years further down! That's how these people do business. Bewildered.

I can imagine the hell you have to go through to get data from CME. At least these guys still post some ftp tick data although you have to be fast enough. It is gone after a week. CBOT is superfast, you can get something for one day only. then it's gone. A pain in the neck is that they oblige...

Dear Trend Fader, Things are perhaps not that simple. Following your argument could one not say the worst markets are trending ones? That's how everyone lost millions from 2000 staying in tech. I realize that I implicitly switched your word "trading" to "staying". I did not mean to play a...

Dear Bungrider, What you say about many languages is true, but don't get indigestion. Also don't forget: "Jack of all trades, master of none" either. It is rather difficult now to advise somebody in starting what to choose! In fact a savage battle is going on in the background. In the...

I like this. Richard Bellman was a great American Mathematician especially known for Dynamic Programming (also somewhat interested in speculation theories)! Dynamic Programming is an optimization technique used in very many space and military optimal control systems. I recall Professor...

Could it be that you are talking about "Mandrake Linux" or are you specifically talking about Linux people doing trading software. I am very interested to find out. Thank you!

Dear bungrider, I was exactly in your situation about 5 years ago. At that time I had enough of the M***ck and the Tr***on and I trew them off my computer because I had understood by that time I was never going to make any money with them. Since about 2 years I now have a stable...

nyc-hotshot, You are right on buying power. You need to have this $25K+, otherwise they will not let you trade for $100K's worth if it is that what you want to do. I fully agree. As I see it - it would be the same for stocks as for futures - the amount needed is rather what you should have...

Thanks for the link!

A couple of days ago, I followed a few URL's posted by one of Jack's fans just after he announced that he was going to quit. I knew him from MIF but I saw that in 2002 he had also been posting on trading Live Cattle and Grains in another forum. Did somebody have experience with this? In...

Dear Hayman, You started a very interesting thread. I am struggling quite some time with this question. I don't pretend to be a big windmill around here acting like he is some kind of a sport-hero scalper, I am only picking a few grains and perhaps drop a little grain also. To eliminate...

Two facts: (1) Pages can disappear from an ET thread at any convenient moment. (2) The following has been posted on this thread: "I've actually got some good relations to the moderators, and I get them to delete your posts all the time - You didn't notice? " Daniel and Charles, My...