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what kind of legal/copyright protection does (for example) tickdata.com have for their data? i mean.. the data is public knowledge. i am sure they didnt have their own equipment installed at the exchanges recording ticks for the last 20 years; they bought it from someone. so why cant someone...

are you talking about an actual hedge fund? or for example, just set up an LLC, sell shares to the investors at $100/share. then deposit money in a trading acct, adjust the share price according to gains/losses, or pay a dividend. perhaps pay yourself a salary, pay for expenses from the...

open a position and close it the same day. thats a daytrade. period.

I believe so.

i dont trade the dow minis, but a few things came to mind. first, even though the dow mini is $5 per point, the dow is 10x the s&p numerically. glancing at a dow chart, looks like it moves about the same as the s&p in a day. however, given a mini dow margin of $1350 intraday, compared to...

there are so many responses for 'other' that now i am wondering which datafeed i forgot to put in the list. i thought i had all the major ones! oh maybe i forgot to put 'tapped a line off neighbors cable box' :)

maybe i am missing something too. dont the short and long futures contracts cancel each other? and you are left with two naked short positions.. e.g. SP goes to 750. you made 40 each on the short options (total 80), but lost (strike-750) on the short put.

just a poll.. wondering what datafeed people are using with interactivebrokers.com for executions.

i tried logging in with the user/password specified in the ftp url, and got a login error. so i sent an email to their sales dept informing them about it. maybe it will be up later. anyway, i suspect that the demo is old data from several years ago, and not recent data like you probably want.

..without using TradeStation. Am I missing something obvious? I haven't been able to find a utility to convert OMZ files to ASCII or CSV or anything.

since this thread has already been started.. yeah lets give poor def a break. he's in HK for crying out loud! his support and expertise is much appreciated around here, but i must say it annoys me to see threads apparently pointed toward def (or others) and that person is just supposed to...

yes. otherwise our thinking is purely one-sided and there will never be a resolution. i cannot believe that people have so much hatred, for NO REASON WHATSOEVER! i cannot believe that this hatred magically appeared from a void. you didn't really address my main point (maybe it was...

One more thing.. a request really. Can everyone PLEASE stop posting articles in their entirety? Isn't it enough to post a brief abstract and a URL, instead of force-feeding us these huge articles? Not to mention any names (NICK) :)

Rigel, not sure I agree with the comparisons to Hitler.. every situation is different. And I thought the agenda of these moslems was for the US to change its policy regarding Israel and perhaps the middle east in general. One thought of yours that I completely agree with is that the leaders...

Take a picture of the rejoicing people in Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq, or wherever they were. Take a *good* look. Now fast-forward a few weeks or a month. We have bombed or attacked God-knows-who. Look at the picture again.. That is *us* in the picture, rejoicing at the misery and...

Everyone who is able, please go and donate blood. There is little else most of us can do in the very short term.

That is a fairly interesting article about LeakTest on webattack.com. It basically points out that spyware or whatever will usually be able to communicate over the network because it's disguised as (or embedded in) a game or utility that the user trusts. So the user clicks "allow" when the...

I know how everyone feels, expecting that bounce all the time.. kind of afraid to go short because you just *feel* that big rally coming. But let's keep it simple.. the trend is clearly down. So stay short until the trend is up, or at least "not down." I have done well with shorts, but got...

Magna, I am pretty sure I'm having the exact same problem.. I was using IB over a dialup and had a second machine also connected on a local LAN. Recently I switched to a high-speed broadband connection, and now IB's TWS kicks the machine back to the BIOS boot screen shortly after entering my...

I agree with Turok. Personally, I will often go long around the support level, and if the stock breaks out to the downside, I will reverse and go short. You can get whipsawed sometimes though..