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I tried infobright, but it didn't work. I loaded everything from a CSV, and then did: select ticker from ticktable where ticker = 'foo'; And I get an empty set. Is it supposed to work that way? It did fetch data quickly, but none of the queries were working. Tried reading the forums...

Whatever format I want, really. The data is just sitting in raw binary records, which I've written some adapters for to transform into CSV, XML, you name it. I've tried a few SQL implementations, but what happens is that when I do a select, even after indexing on such a large amount of data...

Yeah, I asked it. I have a ridiculous amount of data I would like to "join" together like in SQL and I'm a poor trash retail trader who learned about the stock market last week. I've seen a few threads on people doing various things for tick databases, but let me be real specific: 1) Want...

And they will get much, much, much worse when the flood of immigrants happens after the amnesty passes. The trades are done for, and the federal government absolutely wants to flood the labor market.

I considered it a while ago. Personally, I actually have a graduate degree and don't have too much trouble with work. However, I still think this is a very important question because there's nothing preventing me from losing it all tomorrow, or worse. I'm also assuming my future kids will...

Beg to differ. Music requires a lot of talent and time, you don't just go from obese and retarded to competent musician overnight, or even in 10 years. Idea behind the thread is what to do in order to make money while having zero skills. And if you're retarded, there are companies that hire...

Well, to be honest, I'm a rockstar with my own television show. I just day trade for fun when I'm in between shows or filming.

Fails to deliver for you, maybe. Anti-social daytrader living on top of a mountain with a few million dollars and a secret underground base is the best possible job ANYONE could have.

Btw, is there any developed nation where I can buy property without having to pay property tax?

College gives you a degree, but the degree isn't just a piece of paper. It's some kind of input into some employer's mental regression equation to assess whether they can take a risk on you to further their own business. But, now, taking that kind of risk (college debt) just to present...

Yeah, it's me. Can you do that without going to school?

Just a general poll on what people think, given that the other threads suggest that going to college is not so smart right now. I'm not sure I believe the trade school argument, because we're going to get a flood of illegal (to-be-legal) immigration when they pass this amnesty coming down the...

So I open the account in my name, but sell them to the rights to the proceeds from the transaction -- no laws violated, and it's not real lottery. So I can't violate the numbers racket, am in compliance with securities law, and can make a contractual agreement with purchases of my lotto tickets...

All the more reason to attach a lotto ticket front to the options contract, right? You can become a defacto market maker, collect a small spread for the pretty print on the ticket and the marketing, but then really buy your client an options contract. You collect a free spread, provide a...

Nothing in particular, just started looking at the illiquid stocks with higher betas recently because I wanted to observe how the spread evolved through the day, when it collapsed, when the trades were racing in one direction, etc.

I don't mean MM in the strictest sense, just whoever decides to provide liquidity in there.

I know that when the spreads are wide, stocks are jumpy. The question I have is -- are illiquid stocks more "spooked" by runs on the futures in general? i.e., is the MM covering his risk much more quickly just by virtue of the stock being even more illiquid? I know what I've observed, but I...

Actually, say I wanted to compete with the state lottery legally. Could I setup some compliant options operation and decorate each call with a "game" and sell options contracts, where I give a percentage of the payout back to the ticket player? So say I sold you a ticket with a leprechaun on...

Just curious what people think. If I wanted a lottery ticket to riches through the market, is my best bet options? The state lotto here ran a recent promotion with 1 in 952 odds. The expectation on each ticket was negative 10 dollars. If I were willing to pay a tiny tax in the form of a...

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