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Suez?? Small country?? Beside Egypt is of strategic importance in the middle east. A cvil war in Egypt would be disastrous for Israel and the USA. Ninna

+1 It's a great thing Egyptians don't carry weapons... The same kind of social protests would have lead to a huge bloodbath in the US. Ninna

You need to understand the psychology of the man. He CAN'T just resign now. That would be a dishonor. Beside he has no safety guarantees for himself or his family. (However Isuspect the most important reason is the first one). It is the role of the international community (especially...

And also because Islam (just like christianity) is a conquering religion. It aims at imposing the islamic beliefs ("there is only one truth") on infidels and by force when necessary. I think that China will be the big shield against the aggresive propagation of Islam in the next 100 years...

Actually I live in the second best city of the world as far as quality of life goes (according to the biggest independant study on the topic). But that's not the point. The point is you get what you pay for. And when you live in the USA you might pay 35% but you get a lot for it compared to...

I am "overseas". :) Here are some places you should visit before understanding how lucky you are to be in a country where you pay 35% taxes (I personally pay north of 50% and I wouldn't move for any sum of money): north part of south america, south africa, some parts of west africa, north...

You should be happy to have roads, schools, emergency services no matter the quality. Most countries don't have them. Beside you can go out without hiring body guards. You can travel without paying bribes every 60 miles. You can buy property, get a license plate and get a fair trial without...

For people who understand quantitative finance and basic statistics the best measure is the rolling profit factor coupled with the number of trades. With these two you can explain 100% of the equity curve. The investors (they don't fall in the first category usually) are usually happy with...

FW are important pieces of a security infrastructure but they are not enough. They will not block trojans for instance since these days even the most basic trojan uses HTTP tunneling. Besides threats can come from the inside (compromised LAN or WLAN, infected usb stick or cd...) Ninna

I know for a fact that here in Switzerland there is a desperate need for quants. People coming out of ETH or EPFL with a degree in computer science, maths, physics or fin engineering have companies fight to hire them. The salaries are at all-time highs. First salaries for these people...

look at Kaufman efficiency ratio. Ninna

(100k/12k)^(1/39)-1 Ninna

Haha Especially if you cashed out on the front-month call :D Ninna

The problem is there's no other "site like this". So you can't base any valuation on that quote. My opinion is that this evaluation doesn't hold when considering high numbers of users. Beside, $1 /user/month is usually the value of list-based marketing schemes, i.e. the sites that actually...

There are several ways... Distribute the work, parametrize your strategy and don't give the parameters, have them make the platform flexible enough so that you can then implement the strategy (the easiest part),... Ninna

For logical security, yes. The only fool-proof way that I know of is to build a VPN over your Wifi connection. Forget the WEP, WPA etc. they can be cracked in seconds. For physical security, no. You're vulnerable to jamming and similar threats. For reliability, no. Ninna

Pay someone to do it. It takes years of practice to become a decent programmer, especially when dealing with complex broker API and parallelized tasks. Bugs in your code due to your inexperience will most likely cost you more than hiring a professional programmer. Ninna

Well I tested different strategies (the one you mention and other similar) on hundreds of stocks, future, indices and currencies over about 25 years. I encourage you to test it for yourself. As I said, you'll surely learn something. That's how I got to being profitable, by testing ideas...

Let me give you an example. We play a game several times. If you give me a correct answer, I give you $85. if you give me the wrong answer you give me $15. You get the answer right about 1 time out of 100. What's the expectancy of your wealth? Ninna

Because I tested it. However trading costs were a big factors. If you can better manage these costs than I can (probability is low seeing how much I invest in it) then you might get slightly positive expectancy. Ninna