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Incognito, I sent you a PM.

As others have said, don't kid yourself. What would you consider "the basics"? Unless you are already extremely comfortable with pointers, inheritance, polymorphism, common data structures (lists, trees, maps, graphs, sets, etc), common algorithms (to sort, search, etc), the Windows API...

While it's nice to use the "best" tools for scalping, switching to those markets aren't nessessarily it. That's your opinion, and only that. First, the ES/NQ markets are open for much better hours for US traders. Also, different methodologies/systems may not do as well on those markets...

There are exactly zero well-known or public strategies that yield a risk-free 27% a year that actually work. None. It's possible to identify a mispriced market or other options arb opportunities, but I challenge you to find one public method which does so that currently works. If you found a...

You would be talking about atticus, most likely.

Take 2% and put it on black. If you win, cash out, and sit for a month. If you lose, quickly grab your bet off the table before it's collected and run for it. Never return to that casino. You can expect to go through about 6 casinos a year.

They all use crap risk models. Nassim Taleb has written much about this.

Unfortunately, a sizable portion of the S&P and Dow have been profiting handsomly from high oil (such as.. the oil companies). In turn, lower oil could actually hurt the indexes if we don't see something significant to help the rest.

You're right. The markets must be wrong.

In terms of market movement, it's (very) roughly just less than 10 YM = 1 ES in points, but is not a rule at all.

Why were you trading both ES and YM? Also, you'll spend a *ton* of time learning Elliot Wave before you would be able to trade profitably from it, imho.

As soon as people start thinking for once and drop archaic regulation, nuke power will be the way to go. It's a whole lot safer than coal (there have been 0 nuke power deaths in the US ever, compared to all the coal mining desasters), more efficient, and cheaper. Oh yeah, and enviromently friendly.

Yesterday was another Hindenburg Omen, the second of such in the past 6 weeks. http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=8711290

As with all these other "inventions", something's missing. It's not just "add water" if it's a closed system like they imply. They even state that their using a chemical reaction, which means there is a catalyst that is used up. How long does this membrane last? How much does it cost to...

Exactly, I'm the same. B wasn't even remotely attracting.

Wait... what?

Check out NinjaTrader. You can get a free demo / datafeed that you can test with before you start trading for real. Their NinjaScript is C# with their API. It's one of the most powerful platforms out there outside of running your own setup, and their backtesting feature is very powerful. C#...

What time do you meet? I may be able to come (another young gun :) ).

Yahoo has never found its niche ever since Google came on the scene. Any economist knows that the offer Yahoo recieved was the absolute best they could get for a long while, especially if they don't pull a miracle (something new and innovative).

Whoever wins the election may play a big part into this.