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Dear All, I'm a newcomer to this game, and have only been trading for about six months now. I'm now trading full-time, all day long. I am finding it to be EXHAUSTING! Don't get me wrong--it's a good exhausting, and I wouldn't have it any other way, but it's still exhausting! When I had a...

If I have doubts about an upcoming earnings report, I pull out.

I was in but bailed out before the spike. The whole lawsuit made me nervous; I didn't really understand it well enough to stay in.

Thanks, vansandt! I know tech best, but from a computer science perspective, as opposed to an investing. It helps, but I'm still learning how to leverage my CS knowledge to properly assess a company.

I'm trying to decide if I should hold this through the earnings call. http://investors.sgi.com/sec.cfm Based on the fundamental analysis below, I'm planning on holding. Thoughts? Thanks, Keith http://www.sgi.com/ http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/SGI:US 1. Good product: High-Performance...

Someone asked me why this is a big deal. Here is the answer that I wrote up for them: Here are three reasons why Usain is extremely useful. 1. Performance and S P E E D. Blazing speed! This program can generate about 2ns (two nanosecond) ticks locally on my $1000 rig. That's 1/1000000000th of...

Thanks vanzandt. In these days of HS/HFT, scalping, and a general preference for quantitative analysis, it's always encouraging to see someone showing an interest in fundamentals. Good questions! It's ultimately a marketing company. Groupon provide an overview of their business model on their...

Groupon (Nasdaq:GRPN) has really got my eye. With $2B in market cap, a strong Web presence, good brand recognition, solid Q2 earning report, and a surprisingly low price ($5.87 at this time), I see it as a great buyout for a company looking to increase its Web presence. I want to do more...

Yes, it's on the "Todo" list. I just refactored the timing mechanism. I want to build the socket interface and the client; then, I'll work something like this in.

Thanks Vanzandt. Groupon (Nasdaq:GRPN) has really got my eye. With $2B in market cap, a strong Web presence, good brand recognition, solid Q2 earning report, and a surprisingly low price ($5.87 at this time), I see it as a great buyout for a company looking to increase its Web presence. All...

Heya Peeps, These "Non-Display Fees" were too much for me. I wrote a market data tick generation program. This will allow me to write Quantitative Algorithms without stepping on exchange toes. Please take a look at this thread and tell me what you think...

Dear All, Given the high fees for "non-display use" of tick data, I have written a program to generate ticks, and published it in the open source community. "Usain" allows the user to generate ticks at their chosen speed.. and it is FAST! This will allow one to build algorithms without giving...

After much thought, here's my opinion: Election year. No way in h3ll that the Dems are letting the S&P tank 4 months before the election. Details: 1. It is an election year 2. The Dems want to win 3. The Clintons are running 4. You young whippersnappers might not remember Slick Willie back in...

..but there is. Livermore said it well: --Reminscenses of a Stock Operator, Ch III, Pg 36.

Yeah, I know... but one can only learn so much from a flight simulator. As they say in the Air Force, "There's no substitute for hours of air under your @$$."

Dear EliteTrader, Can we have a "Fundamental Analysis" sub-forum? We have a "Technical Analysis" forum. I searched around, but found nothing for peeps reading the balance sheets and attending the quarterly calls. Thank you! Sincerely, Keith Miklas

Make sure that you don't skimp on your power supply. Nothing used, and be sure that you have plenty of power on all rails for what you're doing. Although PSUs are not the sexiest part of a new rig, and don't get the publicity of the CPUs, GPUs, mobos, etc. they must be good. Cheap or otherwise...

Yes! This is the answer that I was hoping for. My confusion was due to misunderstanding these two phrases: 1. jump on the market. I misunderstood this idiom to mean jumping on an opportunity, as in, "I just overheard that there's free beer at McCalloughans from 5-7pm tonight. We'd better jump...

Pfft... in this market? Fueled by 3.5T in Federal Quantitative Easing funds? We're in a "lost decade," and the Guv'ment will do anything and everything in their power to avoid an economic downturn--and another world war.I expect the S&P to break 3000 by 2020. Can't lose. "This is a bull market...

Thank you. Thank you. That is my goal in the study of such classic works. I've found that it's much cheaper to learn from the mistakes of others. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, and I have no interest in getting wiped.