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Actually, I've been a software engineer for almost 14 years now and was a hardware designer for a few years too. The advice on ET is actually not too bad, there's usually about 5 knowledgeable posters to every 1 clueless poster. The ratio is reversed when it comes to trading advice though.

After optimization, I got avg win to avg loss ratio to be 5.95 and the tradestation profit factor to be 3.11. In order to get to something > 5, what do you suggest is the best approach -- go look at the losers and try to isolate another variable that can detect the losers more readily?

Ok trend-followers, I could use your help. - Do I have to adjust my psychology for lots of small losses in order to make big gains when I'm trading trend? - What's a good psychological metric I can use for knowing the "stomachability" of a trade? What measures should I use? I've got a...

You are being ripped off big time. If they stuck me with lame hardware, I'd be crazy enough to go there in person and bust some heads. I had great, great luck with velocitymicro.com. Never had a better computer in my life, including my dells. The Dell guys use weird hardware cases and some...

I figure the HFT players are capable of stepping out of the way faster, but they also put a lot of garbage all over the book too. My concern is throwing out a market order and having it go like the starship enterprise at warp 9 through a vast space in the book, only to crash into planet...

I haven't been trading long enough to have experienced a 9/11 or a 1987 crash. Can someone tell me what the worst ever 1-minute S&P future return was, or the biggest 1-minute spike in terms of the VIX was, in terms of percentage? How fast does one need to be in terms of automated systems to...

How do I get a list of actions or changes in the morning or night before so I can know what's going on? You know how if you're a direct exchange member, you get the declarations and symbol adjustments? How do I get that so I can alert myself and avoid getting screwed on TS?

Maybe, but it's not really a relationship issue so much as it is an economics issue. I've never been in the jobless-affected-by-the-economy situation, except when both my parents got laid off in the late 80s / early 90s. When that happened, they both instinctively just started looking for...

This is why I use a VM under Linux for my trading. Take VMWare snapshots every few weeks, so if something gets hosed, you roll back without a huge amount of time commitment. The part I worry about and haven't fixed yet is detecting rogue network traffic. I am not about low-latency, so I...

My situation is not nearly as dire. I'm more convinced that the economy is just making it very hard for people with little experience to really hack it, but the situation is alien to me in my own experience. But the situation does cause some tensions, but mostly when I myself am frustrated...

I have an RSS list and follow a lot of trader blogs. Was wondering if any of you had lists of interesting people (preferably profitable, but also not quite famous) who are Joe Blow nobodies who are hacking it in all kinds of market situations. Losing trader blogs are also interesting, but...

Well, when they send the illegal immigrants home, they can work those jobs to pay for breakfast and lunch.

You're telling me. It's a serious problem. But I can't just go create a job that's "good enough". I told her working at McDonalds just to cut down on debt was a good idea, but she just will not do it.

Well, she did great in college and is otherwise a very stable, reliable person. I sat down, helped out with cover letters, cleaned up resume, sent out apps one weekend to 30-40 jobs, not even one single callback. I think it has discouraged her, but I can't blame her. I guess I'm a little bit...

The technology in an F-22 is an engineer's wet dream, though. Where are they going to get the engineers for tomorrow's F-22, though? India and China? Russia?

I really believe putting kids back in coal mines isn't a terrible idea. Of course, I'm being a bit extreme and what I really mean is that employment should open up. Totally ludicrous that the summer job situation is now handled by illegal immigrants.

Good. Hopefully they will do away with public schools and let people keep the money they spend in property taxes to send their kids to private schools.

Best wishes for success in whatever you choose to do with your life.

Cross off stock broker. It's a silly profession. Fund manager and portfolio manager require strong quantitative backgrounds, both of which an MBA probably isn't all that great for. The upper crust of MBA students can handle some of the quantitative stuff, but most are worthless loafers...

And I'd probably deserve it. On the flip side, I got her some nice stuff for valentine's day, so it balances out in the end.