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    How do prop firms tend to handle taxation?

    They pass all the taxes on to you. Thats why if your profitable, you are better off incorporating your own company that they can send cheques too. Get an accountant though.
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    Financial Advisor??????

    Im sure Edward Jones is dying for you. Everytime I type trader on monster All I see, EJ.
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    Fundamental Nonsense

    I definitely agree that you should use FA to weed out, but not to buy.
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    Money Management

    I own it. Not that good.
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    Mvg Avg analysis software w/alerts?

    http://www.tradecision.com/market_scanner.htm http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=56518
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    infinium group

    http://www.infiniumcapital.ca/
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    Can Amibroker Execute trades?

    canuck join the yahoo amibroker AT group. More insight. Apparently it can. I might be able to find a programmer for that if youd like.
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    Do Automated Trading Systems Work?

    Start with trend following CTAs every one of them has an automated system. Read the book Trend Following by Michael Covel and visit his site on the web. Lots of insight.
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    Service Identifying Market direction

    www.investment-models.com/ he has a record dating back to 1970.
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    Hedge fund or money management firm

    Another idea, start a LLC corporation and make all your investors partners. Just an idea, probably not allowed though. http://www.turnkeyhedgefunds.com/faq.htm Or Under Regulation D, a hedge fund can accept up to 35 non-accredited investors. However, Rule 502(B) requires that hedge...
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    Hedge fund or money management firm

    you dont have to register if you manage less then 25 million to my knowledge
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    Volume on trends

    If you wanted to, you can trade this strategy End Of Day, as a supplement to your existing trading rules. Check to see that the Volume for 20 days is greater than the 30 day Volume. MA (Volume,20) >= MA (Volume,30)
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    Increasing your chance for prop success

    the only way to attempt to guarantee your success is to throughly backtest your strategy as a system. Most people dont have the time to papertrade, so learn to backtest your ideas and others ideas as systems. Youll find that alot of what prop firms provide to there traders are ideas that may...
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    Backtesting the Breakout "Theory"

    Auto, you can backtest different timeframe and indicators on different timeframes using amibroker. I havent yet tried it in the short timeframes yet, but it looks interesting http://www.amibroker.com/docs/MTFIndicators.html
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    Good backtesting software for all NYSE listed

    1980-present chart of a 52 week high system on the NYSE
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    Good backtesting software for all NYSE listed

    2003-present chart of a 52week high system on the NYSE
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    Good backtesting software for all NYSE listed

    Yes you can filter volume and price. It may take 30 seconds or so each time you run a backtest though for all NYSE stocks, in case you need real time buys and sells. I have an article that shows some of what is possible intraday with Amibroker here...
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    Good backtesting software for all NYSE listed

    amibroker works, mind you I use it for EOD, not intraday, but I have tried it, youll just have to find an intraday data provider for NYSE.
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    Backtesting the Breakout "Theory"

    Ive had the same problem trying to test the turtle system, as an example. Apparently you need sophisticated entry position sizing, namely scale in, which not all reasonably priced software has, or is easy to use. Ive heard as much that with random entries its possible to build a trading...
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    Money Management

    cnms2, I have as many positions as I can take on that are picked by the system, approx 20 using 100% margin, and 40 using 50% margin.
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