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Ah, ok. Hence the label thread and not fiber. That makes sense.

This entire post of yours is clap-trap. You're a grade-A fool if you think threading has nothing to do with performance. Thread scheduling is critical for increasing throughput. A platform that limits itself exclusively to user-space threads will have a tough time competing against a...

Your understanding of user-space threads vs kernel-space threads is lacking. Consult books by Tanenbaum or Silberschatz regarding OS design to understand where your knowledge has fallen short. The Python interpreter is incapable of scheduling fibers on multiple processors. Fibers exist...

Well, if that IronPython project really does allow you to interact with the .NET framework, then I'd have a hard time believing you couldn't make use of the threading objects. But I will admit I have not delved deeply into whether they fully integrate with .NET, or if they are some kind of...

I don't think it would be hard to add that kind of threading in the pure technical sense. Maybe they just opted to make it user-space scheduled because they wanted it to run on every possible platform out there, including even some simpleton embedded procs that might not even support threads...

Can you clarify some more when you mean discretionary traders have no edge? How do you arrive at that conclusion, even for the 2% of guys who you know that actually make money?

If business publications are always wrong about trends in the market, I'd think they might have difficulties forecasting trends in software development tools as well. Secondly, your post is an argument for using C#. If MS did in fact make Python another .NET language that runs on top of...

What do you make of X's fake size? I did some studies of that phenomenon, and the price action doesn't always necessarily reverse. He's doing something -- I mean, trying to scare people in one direction or another. But just how far he'll take it is something I haven't quite figured out yet.

Again, I wonder why I became an engineer. No one ever brings in prostitutes when you fix a backplane bus design.

26. Day trader who can't read the specialist properly What it pays: -$[everything you ever earned working from 1-25] Minimum Training Needed: Learn to type New jobs by 2014: 95% of whoever go through the prop firms

This is a really interesting point, and actually has been a source of misery for me lately. I'm wondering if you could elaborate on your ideas further. Let me give you an example, if you're willing to bring up a chart. Take a look at X, on Tuesday from 2:45PM to about 3:00PM. It's in a...

Good point. Can you post 402300 shares and cancel within a second without getting touched and not shown on the openbook?

Well, I'm not sure I entirely agree with this. The X specialist flashes numbers like 4023 x 12. You just don't see other specialists flash crazy numbers like that even for fractions of a second. It can be unnerving at first. EDIT: You do see them -- it's just that X does this all day...

You've gotta be a pretty quick character if you're trading VLO successfully. I've never been able to beat that guy consistently because the thing moves faster than I can recognize the patterns yet.

Didn't do so hot myself (-$130).

Yes! I know what you are talking about after reverse-after-reverse. I always used to get caught in those traps and piss away my profits on commissions. He always does it in spots where the risk:reward looks so tempting -- at least 20-30 cents. By the time the move happens, your spirit is...

Me, personally, I like that guy who runs X. Closely followed by the guy who runs DNA. X is comical. He abuses fake size like no one else I've ever seen. Someone else pointed this out on this forum, and I had to see for myself.

lol. :-) I know what you're talking about, but the reason I got into day trading was kind of because of that crazy image. That negative image just makes being successful just that much more sweet, I think. Especially so when people have that image of you just randomly gambling. I would...

Emperor. Just kidding. I just say "Day Trader." It has a negative connotation, but I kind of like the negative publicity.

Whoh, that's scary. I just started using a pair strategy recently that's been working wonders and I never even considered the possibility of a busted trade causing a naked hedge. Thanks for informing that this was even a possibility.