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I got mid 70s/low 80s on practice tests, then when I took it I was just short of 90%. The thing that caught me off guard was all the customer handling rules/questions. Everything else was easy. Focus on munis, options, customer handling, and you'll be fine. I studied in pieces over about a...

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Delete me. Wouldn't let me delete this post.

I use 'screen' and 'tail -f', and just have 2-3 monitors dumping info into terminal windows. I've been meaning to write a real monitoring system, but I haven't been able to find the time to write something that looks beautiful and meaningful. For analysis, I just use python scripts on the...

I'm sure there's reasons why something is in a given market or not in a given market. I am just the sort of consumer who'd be willing to try new things in hopes of finding a deal before the public starts creating demand, causing companies to charge premiums on their products. So, for my...

Reviving thread.

I was looking into buying one, but the for-public version is $70 and is called Ubislate. I am not crazy about tablets, but at the $50 price point I'd buy one. $70 is slightly pushing it, but I'd buy it just to try it. I'd also buy a Nano car if I could, but none of this stuff is available to...

Let's say I believe in the concepts of support/resistance, like in my other thread. If I'm trading support/resistance in the first half hour, let's say I think 5000 shares is a "significant" trade size. I see someone break out of resistance with 5k shares in the first half hour and I'm...

I'd give you more credit for your good call if you explained your reasoning in your call. I sold covered calls to give me some padding, but I still took a small dent yesterday.

+5, insightful.

Even if you write off Alex Jones, you can't write off the guests he gets on his show. I tune in just for the guest appearances. I wish he was a little bit nicer to some of the callers and the dissenters, but overall I think he's doing a good thing for the world by presenting different views.

Wow. Go Mormons. Utah is an impressive state.

Good points. Re #1: This is true if you assume the markets are efficient. Even if they are efficient, it's possible to pin trajectories on underlying factors affecting a stock price. They might be accurate, they might not be. Re #2: I'm inclined to believe this, but feel as if the...

I think I am in every single one of these phases all the time.

I heard rumors about the NYFIX/Millenium strategy, but what was it exactly? And was this before RegNMS?

Sorry if I'm posting simple questions lately, but I keep seeing the support/resistance/stops debate on ET. So, for example, say we have a boxed range between support and resistance. And let's say we're at the bottom of the range, and we get a momentum signal (like we see a large buyer...

I've used a few different approaches in the past, but they didn't really create much of an impact for me. I think their benefit over well-tuned software is miniscule, at least for the sort of things I try. Also, the boxed vendors always tend to make assumptions about working environments, so...

The stop should be a function of information you have in the current market. If 'V' is the value of the stock at time t, then you have some expectation of V *conditioned* on the events that have transpired in the market prior to t. I can't dictate to you what information is useful or how to...

Acquiring an edge is kind of painful, unless you have a really good methodology and framework for testing and validating/rejecting ideas. My suggestion is to take an edge that used to work or idea that people have claimed to work, then go find out why it doesn't work anymore and see if you can...

Yeah, but how much money are you moving around?