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Made $2400 on a $10000 account in the last quarter trading options, discretionary. This is the first time I started trading with real money. IB PortfolioAnalyst report tells me that my Sharpe ratio was 1.69, Sortino 1.98 and Calmar ratio of 5.81. I believe the strategy is very scalable, but...

That is unfortunately a good way to put it.

IB's PortfolioAnalyst's Detailed PDF report's "Risk Measures" section tells me that for the last quarter, my Sharpe is 2.34 (good!), Sortino is 2.91 (good!), and Calmar is 8.95 (God?!). I'm being a bit lazy here, and should probably do the calculations myself, but if you are an expert at this...

Yes, I regularly see fake / pushed "Letters to the Editor" in the SCMP (South China Morning Post, a newspaper) which beat the drum about how the sun is setting on the West, how Obama is flailing to save his country, while the one-party system and associated "harmony" in China is working much...

-- Uh, posting on ET (, masquerading to be normal and friendly,) enquiring as to how the prey manages to discover him, so that they become more effective at their game? :eek:

The leg that's making money is the alpha leg, and the other one(s) are totally beta :p (alpha, beta as in -male, in case you didn't get the joke). I stare them the fuck down until they reduce in loss or at least stand still relative to the alpha leg, which grows humongous, LIKE A BOSS! My...

bwolinksy, you're lucky that sle is even debating you. To post so much without being able to figure out which ET user is a pro and which one is not is the mark of someone who doesn't have a clue about their context. Be careful when you trade. Hang on, I found a Wikipedia article about your...

I suspect we will see a sudden thrust upwards, SPX to 1290 or even 1300, soon. OTM options are your friend right now. Edit : To answer the OP's question, I bet only a few know the "fundamental" reason why. Even El-Erian expressed surprise about this on Bloomberg and he manages $1.3 trillion...

Sorry for the late reply! I didn't see this reply till today! I primarily use : - Subclipse + SVNKit for repository access - JUnit, though it's now bundled along with Eclipse, so not sure it's even a plug-in any more! - the Maven plugin m2e - AnyEdit tools : editing help - EasyShell to...

You are either not facing up to the secret burdensome thoughts that are causing the stress, or are just doing too many things, and hence the *pace* of your thoughts is exceeding the normal pace, hence the stress. If it's the first, you know what to do. If you got this far, you're not dumb...

+1 for the solid productivity-friendly advice!

Giddyup, Initially learn a scripting language : python or R. Initially avoid Java, C++ and C#. Why : for the sheer pleasure of being able to produce things that work in the real world quickly instead of wasting time on build management. If you get serious about it, you can always jump to one...

+1. Adding to that: Jobs responded to the Foxconn story with a blatant lie that, "Foxconn is not a sweatshop". Around this time, Foxconn put up nets around the building to stop people from committing suicide by jumping off the roof. This act by itself is jaw-dropping. I mean, if you saw this...

Basically, if you observe the profit vs. loss of the Iron Condors he's setting up, such as this one : http://paintbarfactory.com/images/11-24-2009-QQQQ-Iron-Condor.png, you'll see that a) the profit is $500 vs. loss of $1500 b) the BEPs are +5% and -5% away for QQQQ above, and today's date =...

Eclipse, because of it's Marketplace : a plug-in probably exists for every dev problem you need to tackle. The Marketplace is what has elevated Eclipse to Emacs status; it's like a mini-OS now! :-)

Trust me (and dtrader98, and 100s of other actual folks who use R for trading) : you gave up too soon. Check out http://www.quantmod.com for the kind of simple stuff you might think is more practical/realistic than heatmaps, etc;

Nitro, I believe you will find a kindred spirit in Jiddu (and U.G., too, but later). Do try to read this if and when time permits: http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/freedom-from-the-known/ "Understanding is not an intellectual process. Accumulating knowledge about yourself and...

Please don't try to hack around the keylogger. Big banks / big corps' IT security is not that dumb. You will be caught. Take the smartphone advice : get an iPhone or Android phone with a good / unlimited data plan and do whatever you want from the restroom or during lunch break, which is also...

Buying "high end" is probably not a good idea if you really want to reduce eye strain. @see http://www.pixelqi.com/, for "low end" stuff that will actually reduce eye strain. It's like the Kindle screen, but in colour. <-- What I mean to say is that high-end TVs are probably too bright for your...

Because many people find it unbearable to read a book; they'd rather watch a movie. They lead entire lives which are characterized by the careful avoidance of a most dreaded thing : thinking for yourself. But they want to be traders. Why? Because it looks like even more of the same ease ...