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    Place your bets! Quiz #3

    When you set your next resistence level to 48.50, you got stopped out, exactly to the penny. Should have given it a little more breathing room above 48.50, if that was going to be your new stop. But what do I know :D peace axeman
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    Place your bets! Quiz #3

    Results ------------------------- DTK +1.50 Wooo hoo!!! :D AllenCook +0.65 miniTrdr +0.53 Dantheman +0.50 kokosij +0.31 TriPack -0.02 ElCubano -0.02 QQQBALL -0.02 Trajan -0.02 Corallus -0.02 Gordon Gekko -0.02 Sanjuro -0.02 wdbaker -0.02 uptik2000 -0.15 Peri -0.16 Amkeer...
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    Place your bets! Quiz #3

    You cant wait.... this is about managing a random entry. You may exit with a 2 cent commish loss immediately, or play the position. peace axeman
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    what to do when you're screwed

    You have discovered the floor traders! :D peace axeman
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    Place your bets! Quiz #3

    Sorry guys....was a long weekend...half asleep. Didnt notice the graphic was too large and got rejected. Graphic is a little crusty. Took many tries to get it under the 100k limit. You may now re-place your bets. peace axeman
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    Place your bets! Quiz #3

    For instructions, see previous thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10934 You are short 49.03. peace axeman
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    Brain Teasers

    The warm bulb was on. peace axeman
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    Place your bets - QUIZ 2

    This was an interesting one. I was really curious to see who had the biggest balls with such a late entry :D I would have figured more people would have used trailing stops if they were going to "go for it" with such a high momentum play. The people who thought it could have enough...
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    Brain Teasers

    WUFF!!!!! ahem...cough cough... I mean... OH OH! peace axeman
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    Renting a Supercomputer

    Dont like the basketball analogy, fine... Your playing chess against Kasparov. It took a HUGE team of engineer, super computing power, and decades of reasearch to finally beat this guy. Are you going to learn chess, or do you plan to put that kind of effort into developing a chess...
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    Renting a Supercomputer

    Thats kind of like saying... For me, the issue of basketball is very simple. I want to put the ball through the hoop, more often than my opponent. That is basketball, period. The part your missing is, your opponent is Michael Jordan. He has more skill and experience than you. How...
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    Renting a Supercomputer

    I am fully capable of developing full auto systems. I have already done so. I did this before a lot of the easy to use packages were around. However.... The programming can be so intensive, and a pain in the ass, that by the time you have a system that is fully tested and production...
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    Renting a Supercomputer

    Not an issue unless your calculations are so intensive they take so long that the entry opportunity has already passed. I at times have my computer watch about 500 stocks in parallel and doing computations on the fly. Its a 2.0 ghz P4, and bandwidth, not CPU is my bottle neck...
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    Renting a Supercomputer

    Yeah.... performance gains against a farm of number crunchers is going to be tightly coupled to the serial/lack of serial nature of the computation at hand. For example... if what your crunching can be done within the context of a SINGLE day of ES data, then your system will scale almost...
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    Renting a Supercomputer

    Well then.... stop programming in LOGO :D peace axeman
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    Place your bets - QUIZ 2

    Continued from thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=10909 All bets will be 100 shares for simplicity, with 2 cent round trip commish, IB style. Zero slippage. No partials. For trailing stops - will check to see if STOP is hit BEFORE target. When neither target or...
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    Trading Quiz I - Archive

    And the results are ------------------------------------- Corallus: +94 cents :cool: El Cubano: +74 cents Sanjuro: +74 cents NoviceTrader: +69 cents macal425: +49 - by trailing stop uptik2000: +44 cents JPB: +29 cents Gordon Gekko: +23 cents axeman: 0 ( lets...
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    Trading Quiz I - Archive

    For now... to keep things simple, we are not going to do partials. Bt its interesting... so maybe ill switch to that later depending on the load. Im pretty busy. peace axeman
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    Trading Quiz I - Archive

    RIGHT... this is a random entry. You are LONG... you may NOT go short. You may immediately exit with a 2 cent commish cost, if you think being LONG is completely idiotic. peace axeman
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    Techniques for Managing a Random Entry

    Make sure you guys give it a shot with the random entry quiz at: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10909 peace axeman
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