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Well, CNN's senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre, said it probably was plain old fear within the iraqi forces along with weak commanders, which made them balk at going into battle against fellow iraqis employing "guerilla" tactics (in the military science term - I wouldn't dare call them...

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said "We don't negotiate with terrorists ... that's really it.", when asked about abducted US soldiers and contractors. I remember lots of stories from WWII when commando forces and resistance/partisans abducted enemy soliders/officers etc. - or perhaps I should...

Hehe, noone said it was trivial stuff. Go to http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ for special case research papers on almost everything between heaven and earth; you'd probably add many thousands of equally interesting pages ... :D .. and it's all free research information.

Yes, except that sometimes trade ticks at both bid and ask seems to be aggregated/summed. It's really nice with a minimum of delay though. I guess it can give an edge on automated systems. That was something I was hoping to achieve as well; with ease of visualization as one of the strong...

harrytrader, I totally agree with you that AI was hyped as a term, and I remember how it was almost taboo in the late 1980's. Still there were persons continuing doing work in the field, and that's why we have more diversified options today, like Kohonen maps etc. I also use my own neurons...

Thanks for your views on using AI, but I should point out that I'm not going to do some fancy price predictions, or even trading predictions (at least not yet). Normally I use tape reading and some classical technical indicators along with a lot of news reading/watching and trying to get a...

Do any of you calculate your own aggregated data/indicators ? Or is it all data/indicators delivered with the package/application/API you are using for detecting patterns ? I'm starting to generate some own indicators because my good experience with them in other models (like the energy...

I think the point being made by politicians belonging to both parties from senate intelligence committee and others, which was that the threat inside the US was largely ignored because of the fact that noone believed anything like 9/11 could be thought up by someone, and they couldn't fathom the...

You seem to have an extremely high number of oneliners like this, but I'm still not putting you on my ignore list, because I'm sure you must be writing something useful some place - and one day I might find it, because you obviously spend a lot of time running through the threads. :p

I am looking into using some simple (HMM) Hidden Markov Model libraries I have for Java. ( see http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30307 ) I was wondering if anyone has any experience using HMMs, with the belief that the number of underlying states for data-generating...

I perhaps should point out again, that I'm not unhappy with IB's low prices in general, but object to the calendar month model for unbundled commissions. I have always been used to continuosly averaged volume for trade commissions, and think that's a fair system. Of course this would then...

(the thread popped up like mushrooms, but perhaps it gets most attention here) Check out HSBC Offshore as well - http://www.offshore.hsbc.com/hsbc. They have a really great offshore service, and offer international investment services - especially good with regards to China and the far east...

I know religion is illogical, even scientology - although they'd claim otherwise - they are just as crazed as the UFO sects to me. It's more about worshipping some idol. I guess people really lack good rolemodels, especially in moral matters. The reason for which, might be the laziness of...

Let them find methane gas and other traces of life on Mars first... Then it becomes a little difficult for the believers of God. :D

I have used several brokers in my time which have offered "unbundled commisions", where commision depends on the volume traded. In every country and with every broker this was calculated on a continous basis, so that accumulated volume ultimo some month affected commisions primo next month etc...

Spot on! With stocks you sometimes have no chance of getting out because the market is closed, when some news break. The ES and similar futures (Kospi 200 as well) are the fastest growing instruments, gaining in popularity all around the world markets. It get's to be more of a "game" with the...

The ES got some crazy spike up to 1156.50. Wow, YHOO impressed.

The US administration is also underscoring that even after the handover in Iraq, US troops will continue a strong presence in the country.

Nihaba, hanseng1, I definitely second your posts. I effectively stayed away from the markets for a while afyer my son was born 2 years ago. My style of trading involves tape-reading so concentration is paramount. Now I trade from home with my toddler running around, and I take lotsa breaks to...

In one of Bush Jr.'s finest moments again he uttered about Al-Sadr: "he want's to use force to direct democracy .. heh .. that's the OPPOSITE of democracy." I guess that reflection in the whiskey-bottle years ago didn't exactly provide some glimpse of Bush's inner self. He seems to lack any...