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Second that .... we use only ATI cards - various combinations ... various OS's ..... no issues. We still primarily buy used equipment: there is still a vibrant market of used, fairly high performance equipment on the market and cheap prices. Often all you need to do is as Gnome suggests: buy...

Engle's work is useful reading. Interesting that he is also a trained as a physicist...... You will never be handed a working system. You might learn how a particular system works if you work as a trading assistant for a time. Trading successfully is neither as complicated as many people...

Why is any of this an issue ? One trade doesn't work out - you should have several signals and markets that you are looking at .... If you are trading only a single issue or market then maybe that is the problem ....

Certifications are generally for people with significant experience who want to differentiate themselves eithr for the purpose of moving up in a job with a company, or to use in marketing their services to companies and individuals. The certifications by themselves without significant...

In their day these were new ideas: Today these ideas are pretty well investigated. The conclusion ? Nobody has exactly characterised financial markets. And... if you start looking at systems of equations in great mathematical detail you will come to realize that these types of ideas are in...

I tend to agree - I do know some people that make or exceeed these numbers consistently. They have large account reserves and do not represent the majority. In fact, the numbers of people that are consistently profitable and that remain positive over their career are very small. Of course in...

You already have the answer: there is a data layout mismatch. To confirm this create your own test file in the appropriate format and see if it can be read. If so there is no configuration error with MATLAB and it is simply a data format mismatch.

Paranoia can really waste a lot of your time. Unless you want to make a career of managing security on your workstation the simplest thing you can do is buy a 50-100 hardware firewall - netgear and linksys make these - and invest about two hours of your time to set it up and become familiar...

Well, I'm glad you are holding your portfolio for the next 20 years: I have a few items I am holding as well - I liquidated a majority of my porfolio properties over the last 9 months. One thing I dont do: proclaim to the world that anything in my portfolio is a 20 year hold. Everything is...

Since my firm has been working with Open Source I can say I like things .... working with $soft technology is something I dont like but I am expert at and if necessary will also execute on .... I also started a trading firm and that is doing well. IT/Software business is still very viable and...

yes you could do that ... but if you want something other than POSIX compliance then its a very expensive front end that is not very useful. It is simpler to use a differnet solution in my opinion - just as productive and cheaper.

Well .... I think that this is just another reason there are alternatives cropping up. I think that once you start to lose credibiltiy with your customers and partners then you really need to radically change your business model. . ...people dont forget when a vendor has failed to behave or...

Its nice but it requires vendor lockin to use it. ...particularly useless if your dont intend to target only $soft. So, while I agree it is nice, it is a $soft only solution. Good engineers can be as productive in other environments - although they will complain that its not VS :D

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Dont but a crippled or incomplete version. basically if you need to use VS then you will need the so-called "Enterprise" featues - all of which you can get in Linux/LAMP and related development for free. If you are saying that you dont need most or all of the "enterprise" features then you...

...but there always was capital - and still is - for people that repair distressed properties for resale or rental. That type of business will never go away....

Its great running your own show ... and if your compensation is acceptable then that is great ....

The only problem is that building reliable trading systems from scratch does not lead to massive amounts of money. This stuff is rapidly becoming a commodity: while there still is some money in this there is no way I would call it massive. Just a decent living and if you are happy with that...

We use verizon services at two locations: no issues. The agreement cited is a consumer agreement. These basically say that the vendor can do anything they want, with no gaurantee of service. If you are concerned about all this then you can get a gauranteed service agreement for...

You left an industry in decline, but like any industry, there is still opportunity if you are creative and disciplined: these are some of the same traits necessary for being a successful trader, fund manger etc .... Here is a piece of advice: dont chase your tail. You say your 3.4 GPA is not...