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    Learn to do backtests in Excel/VBA or Matlab?

    The concept is the same be it excel or matlab. You're simply applying your strategy to historical data. You're strategy is usually expressed using logic functions. Forget VBA or Matlab for a minute and just try to replicate in a basic spreadsheet what you'd do with a pen/paper if you were...
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    Aspen Trading Group research?

    Does anyone have any insight into this firm or their research? http://www.aspentrading.com/ Mainly I'm curious about two things: 1. Is their research reasonable and helpful or is it mostly a useless service? 2. Do they actually trade their own information or are they simply an advisory...
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    Is this option calculator accurate?

    https://www.thinkorswim.com/tos/myAccounts/displayOpenFirstAccount.tos Last I checked you can use TOS for free, hth.
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    Steps for a career

    ...there is a Columbia College, it's a school within CU. Hydroblunt hit the nail on the head, there are no 'business' classes really, they take econ courses and would call themselves econ majors. He'd also have a clue about the industry if he were taking similar classes as on campus recruiting...
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    Microsoft "Bing" Shares

    Fine, then how do we purchase shares for the ad placement engine!?
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    Bill to reinstate Glass-Steagall introduced

    ...did you try your local Chase branch? You can even open one up with the government at Ally!
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    Microsoft "Bing" Shares

    +1
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    Trend Following Research

    Correllelogram? Random-walks 'trend' according to most definitions (HH/LL etc.). Depends on what your definition of is is.
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    Trend Following Research

    ...and to think with All My Children going off the air I wouldn't get my daily fill of drama.
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    CFTC charges Citi trader stole $300,000 from firm

    Haha, yea, not sure what I was thinking. Thanks.:D
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    CFTC charges Citi trader stole $300,000 from firm

    Ok, so another stupid question - how does that help him? To profit, he'd still need to shift the b/a at some point, even if it's just a few ticks, right? I guess that's not considered a large market risk (considering he is the market) but it just seems so overwhelmingly stupid for such...
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    CFTC charges Citi trader stole $300,000 from firm

    This is probably a stupid question but how does this actually help him? Sure, if the Citi acct loses value he profits in his PA - but if the Citi acct gains, he loses 1:1 in his PA and gains his payout % per $ of P/L, a net loss (or vice versa, just using example from the story). ...they...
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    Steps for a career

    ...and what exactly do you think an SMA is?
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    Steps for a career

    Finance from Columbia College - that's BS Justin.
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    Would you ever lease your indicator?

    This is pretty broad - indicator does not mean a trading strategy, in which case, yes I can think of circumstances where it would be warranted. If indicator does mean trading strategy, then again, yes there are probably some cases where it makes sense depending on the sharpe and...
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    Its Human Intelligent vs Artificial now?

    Different tools, same game imo.
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    Public Shell Wanted

    Haha, ok, neat.
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    Public Shell Wanted

    This is pretty generic - a few thoughts come to mind: 1) What's the purpose of doing this and in what region/jurisdiction 2) This can be a risky proposition and may not be worth the tradeoff depending on who you purchase from - point being there may be better ways to collateralize/get credit...
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    Global trade and quote data

    Just wanted to say ogarbitrage is good to deal with, responsive, and helpful. I went through the process of deciding what data was/was not useful for me with his help. The data was as promised and included what I asked for - unfortunately for me I've had to put my project on hold, but was...
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    Facebook worth 60 billion someday?

    My response was tongue in cheek - I was referring to JPM/GS as financial retailers.:p
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