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All rich people of Greece live in London and Geneva, control 25% of international shipping and they have let their country in debt. Most made their money getting loans to buy ships they never repaid. Their accounts should be confiscated. Germany said that Greeks have over 600 Billion ( you read...

+1 As soon the EU announced a ban on naked short CDS the article showed up. For the global financial system it seems it would be better for Greece to default because of the huge bets in the destruction of a whole country they have made so to make up the losses of the subprime crisis...

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All sorts of things you can do with this program. Pls pm for possible cooperation in this area.

Ami is good for portfolio backtesting and very cheap as compared to other packages.

USD is a permashort

IMO it is a good idea.

How do you know when to trade and when not?

There is software called Price Action Lab to find all sorts of patterns from historical data. It takes a few hours for daily and maybe a couple of days for intraday. I have collected 62 high probability patterns, 24 for daily and 38 for intraday timeframes.

You must keep in mind that if you are making in futures 50K a month, this means that some other people are losing to you 50K a month. These losers must be worse than you as a result. For now, it seems you are worse than those who won your money. Try to figure out how long it will take you to...

The Foundational Questions Institute is curerntly having an essay contest about the nature of reality in the context of analog vs. digital. I read a few essays the other day that were listed as the most popular: http://www.fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/846...

You are talking about CAGR and he is talking about average annual trader return without reinvestment of winnings. The CAGR for a 279% return in 18 years is 5.85% As a trader you will need to generate a return of 15.5% a year on fixed capital to match a CAGR of 5.85%.

Hello, What is the difference between disk backup and partition backup? For some reason I get both in my backup directory. I must have changed some backup settings.

$1000/day

This blog reported a cumulative return of 194% for buying and holding SPY since January 1993: http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2011/1/26/who-needs-the-trading-day.html The same blog also reported that the return of a long-only strategy, buy the close - sell the open was 385%. But...

PLease tell me the idea, I will trade it for a while and then I will help you when I come back from Hawaii. :)

Things will get worse as computer systems get smarter and take more service jobs.

Only when you trade against the trend they look rigged. When you win you think you are smart and the markets are just doing what they are supposed to:)

Only a small fraction of hedge funds do HFT. Most are global macro/long-short/trend/. A few are position traders. Your misunderstandings can only be explained if one assumes you just learned about hedge funds yesterday:) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund#Strategies