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When you talk about "steps" keep in mind that you are dealing with lots of things that change: size of the price changes and frequency of trades etc. I would try to generalize things into the standard volatility measurements used in option pricing, like you find on Yahoo Finance under the...

I don't think the scandal comes from the modeling and creation of new products. There was an article that tried to tie everything back to some financial engineering formula - yeah, some formula took down the economy. The implication is that these rocket scientist types are just too brainy for...

I look at it this way: Financial Innovation results in new types of trade. Trade is good when both parties end up with more utility after they exchange than before. The innovation itself isn't bad.

Quick observation: I'm not saying that if your username were "SuperTrader" that you would be successful, but I think that often how we think about things can have a reinforcing effect...

I understand. I'm not thinking that I would use them, but I'd like to understand more about how they work in order to understand what the Big Boys are doing (as much as practical). Q sounds interesting. Do you use these technologies regularly?

So, I've come across names for various program trade algorithms and I'd like to understand what they are about. I figure, if these algorithms are common enough to have names and platforms advertise supporting them, then they are worth trying to understand. I realize these are mostly for...

Amazon Mechanical Turk https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

Keep in mind that buying and selling are part of what changes prices but changing perceptions of value can do a lot on their own.

Hey folks - I'm in Pittsburgh. Let me know if you guys come up with anything.

Don't forget that you still pay hourly after you pay $325 or $650 per year -- you just pay a lower hourly rate. Elasticfox makes managing instances much less of a headache.

Can you say more about what tools are available at Echo for ATS stuff? I am assuming it's only available to those well capitalized? I'm interested in finding more tools to make whatever development work I do a little more clean.

Do some reading about this. It's not controlled like Modafanil. Out of stock now, but here is a link: http://www.antiaging-systems.com/iasstore/acatalog/adrafinil.html

What can you learn by losing $55k that you can't learn by losing $5k? Oh, I know, you're not planning to lose.. The thing is there are many mistakes that traders starting out make no matter the preparation. If you want to trade, learn trading 100 share lots. If you want to be a...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

Is the bird exemplifying the CONTROL process?

There are a lot of misconceptions (mostly vague spiritual stuff) about just what Enlightenment, seeing the Light, etc is. Herewith a classic definition: What is Enlightenment? "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's...

"The path to Light lies through darkness. Darkness is difficult. Pathfinders are few. You have ended your quest that you may begin anew. You have found yourself that you may be reborn beyond yourself. Come into the Light. I am with you, I am waiting."

I like offsite backup of important stuff as well as local backup of everything. I like JungleDisk which runs on Amazon's S3 service. You pay $20 for the software, then Amazon charges $.15/GB per month. So, the 10GB of important stuff that I back up costs roughly $1.50/mo. It keeps archive...

I was trying to make a point that Taleb makes is all. That when we look back at what has happened in the past, we ascribe a certain story to it and convince ourselves that it could not have happened any other way. Of course, things _did_ happen in a way that would have made a bunch of money...

Why do some have it and some not? (supposing everyone is voting truthfully) What's the use of having a bunch of losses last year if I can't get a K1? :D