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Correction takes place not because of "logical" reasons or nonsense concept of supply & demand. It happens because of 'fat fingers' like last may. But it is nice to know people are still trying to think 'innocentlly':) calling it a glitch.

If you still believe in justice and nonsense concepts like supply & demand, then you should not be reading about wall street or any financial news.

Sales trader...these name cards/info gathering events are definitely a norm in finance networking sessions. If you had the intention to switch jobs, it's ok but some were victims just because they gave out name cards unknowingly to headhunter or marketing data miners who sold/exchange info. Do...

My ex-boss and a few friends ever told me about these events and giving out name cards but I was not the victim.

First they pretend to verify with your boss that you are working there, nature of job and check if he is please with your performance. Then says he met you at an event and you mention that you are not happy with your current job and looking for better opportunity else where (which could be...

Dangerous hypocrites.:eek:

What is your opinion of HeadHunters? Seems like they are info diggers who may call your existing boss thus get you into trouble or they think you waste their time if you do not have a job but looking for one. Avoid going to events that gathers name/business cards especially if you are...

Does SEC deal with insider trading issues too? What about foreign stocks listed in US? How would they define insider trading for overseas companies if say the CEO instructs someone else to transact large amount of shares before certain news or earnings call?

How many traders would pay $9.99 for a pairs trading APPS? It needs a serious 100K purchases to make a mil. Is trading related Apps a viable biz?

How is scatter plot got to do with CoIntegration? Or is it just correlation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatter_plot http://mste.illinois.edu/courses/ci330ms/youtsey/scatterinfo.html

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.:p

It depends on your expectancy no. If I win 8 out of 10 times, then limited martingale to 1 level is ok. I.e loss = 2x($1+$2)=$6, win=$8

Maybe someone can enlighten me on this paradox: I am betting on the event "the prob of having 2 consecutive H or T within 10 tosses is 0.86" with limited martingale of just 1level, which is different from the event "the prob of next toss will always be 0.5".i.e 10tosses=one event I bet VS...

Good point, so how does the market maker handle the antimartingle trending phase against you? Is it a solely accumulation phase for them or just distribution of what they have gathered from many clients during an earlier rangebound period/session before the breakout to you? Or they simply have...

Another idea for fund managers: ask your secretary to associate a head or tail with a green or red(random choice) daily candle on Dow next day close but she cannot reveal to you what she wrote down. You then flip the coin and she buys or sell Dow futures according to what she wrote down for the...

2 Consecutive RED/GREEN Daily candles Hypothesis Just an idea: apply limited martingale(max 1,2) for lot sizes traded on Daily candlestick chart, e.g, dow index futures: PreCondition: Say you have G,R,G,R,G (must be alternating colors) Daily candles chart(1 week). So you bet 1lot on...

Which rdp/VPN apps do you recommend for trading through VPS? Do you feel that your iPad is getting heavier from the time you first got it? Is there a technical reason for that? More apps, perhaps? E=MC^2, somehow apps changes E, entropy over time, thereby increases M? If population of...

Thanks for the clear explanation; So do you recommend CFDs if you want to pairs trade on leverage? Is there any website/software that list daily updated potential pairs based on ConIntegration ranking strength with statistically calculated possible convergence/revert to BBands 20MA(mean)...

Does anyone here pairs trade using options? http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/schaeffersu/content/advanced+trading+strategies+pairs+trading/Education.aspx?ID=255 Is it better to buy otm,atm or itm call and puts for pair trade and which expiry(3 to 6months) option do you choose to minimize...

So performance of HFT(dark pool) depends on (like different grades of club membership/subscription i.e. how much you pay) how well you are connected to this multi-players game different 'levels' of a global network (e.g, access bigger weapons= front run leveraged indices futures, smaller weapon=...