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If you are going for just a few ticks and working with limit orders you will become prey for the many market participants that are out there to shake people out of their positions. This cannot be backtested cause it depends on too many factors. Expect massively worse results in reality than...

+1. It's just strange that people don't bother to look at the charts following Lehman's fall and that memory seems to be so short-lived. What would have happened after Citi or BAC would have failed? After Lehman ES went down 450 pts or 550 pts as you like to see it. If they had allowed...

Obviously you're from some place far away from northern Europe. This is not about revenge or trying to "educate" the "fiscally irresponsible". It is also not about saving Greece. It is about saving the monetary union and it's public image. Big politics (and especially monetary policy)...

Something is going on. Probably big up-move. Long @6237, SL 6232, first tgt 6257. Final tgt more like 6280.

Boy, you are not going off fundamentals. You are going off delusions. (Just telling because if those feelings are used for trading decisions they will unevitably lead to ruin.) Back to the DM would be suicide and every serious person knows this.

Theoretically yes. Just look where the efforts to program recognition of human faces are standing today. The programs that try to do this have 100 thousands of lines code and they are still doing lousy jobs compared to a 3 year old human.

Thanks for the answers so far. Some additional information: Currently I am running three NVidia 8600 GT cards with 6 monitors and they are running smoothly. I am just tired of the noise they are producing. Therefore I am looking for a low-cost solution to replace them. As far as I can...

What would be most cost effective graphics card (passively cooled, 2D) that allows to connect two or more monitors and of which can be added more?

This "intelligent" way of trading may work under some circumstances. I am following a rather successfull strategy that requires to trade only small chunks (sometimes e.g. equivalent of only 3000 USD) of a basket of currencies. There it is just not applicable. And it should certainly not be...

+1. They say so on their website and their customer service tells you they do. But their system simply does not do it. It is possible that you get stuck for quite a long time with a small rest of currency that you cannot sell and that is not removed "automatically".

If there are 5 ducks flying in different directions that does not give any information. But if they join in flying south and they make turns in the very same moment you know autumn is coming. Algorithmically speaking this is pattern recognition and it is very difficult to program it. Though...

Forget about leading or lagging. Probably no such things left today where the machines are trading in sub-second timeframes. They are synchronous up to the second (or even below). This can be used for confirmation.

Think about what is closest to crude oil (CL) chemically. - Brent crude - West Texas Intermediate - Gasoline - Heating Oil Much closer relations than those with indices or currencies.

This is an uninformed statement. Stand-alone apps can be built using VB6 or VB.NET. VB6 is not further developped anymore by MSFT. Anyway it is an extremely fast development platform, easy to learn, very good debugging aids and incredibly much support can be found in the net. VB.NET is...

Private insurance: People with pre-existing conditions get a risk surcharge which can be quite tough. They can even deny access to private insurance completely for some people. "Public" insurance (it's not run by the government, only regulated): They have to accept everybody...

Yes, unfortunately IB's Eurex feed sucks recently (has been quite stable over one year before). About 4 weeks ago they suddenly showed no volume for some symbols (FDAX JUN, FDAX MAR, FESX JUN) sometimes dropping it within the session. When asking customer service about this they confirmed...

Pretty interesting thread to me, never had an idea about numbers in the US insurance system. I am living in Germany and working in the health system (besides trading). In Germany you pay something like 350€/mo for a good private health insurance (1 person, 40 yr), complete coverage...

Easy to answer: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=153819 And this is only one example. It is an idea that is one of the most thought at all. Nevertheless impossible to implement (see thread above). (Interesting side notice: That thread is one year old pretty...

This is the mindset that brought down US. Some people still don't recognize that there are places called Europe and Asia that have an influence on markets.

Sure, technically you can do many things with TS. But if TS is something made for you depends heavily from where you are starting: - If you have already a working strategy that gives you reliable signals so that you don't have to spend the 100$/mo then TS will be ok. - Otherwise there are...