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The human brain is in 2010 and will remain for the foreseeable future, a better patten recognition system than any algorithm yet devised by man. I base this opinion on the billions of dollars spent annually by business and government in their attempt to devise algorithms to analyse patterns...

I hope you enjoy a few of my favorites related to your point.

How about another choice in your poll. "I have no opinion on market direction." Then I can vote.

Are the results you refer to from back testing, paper trading or real trading? If from real trading, are they scalable? Will trading with the kind of money a firm would require modify the market so much that it would no longer be attractive?

Point - Visualizing Data Counterpoint - How To Lie With Charts: Second Edition

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Or TOS which allowed me to paper trade for more than three months without funding my account. I was never informed that I had to fund my account to continue paper trading. Additionally, they have a wonderful GUI called Prodigio to build indicators and to even build robots. Even though I'm a...

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I appreciate any help in making things understandable. I'm not quite clear about your concerns. Please elaborate. Thanks.

Coin flipping is a special case of the more general Monte Carlo Methods. Monte Carlo methods have been used extensively in understanding the financial markets and trading. I use a Monte Carlo based application to estimate the probability of an underlying financial instrument touching an option...

Well now, you have accomplished something I did not think possible. I have absolutely no response. I'll leave it to others to judge my contributions.

A healthy economy has both moderate growth and moderate inflation. Lots of readable papers on this matter available with search engine. The challenge is to find the "levers" to adjust the economy and to find the sweet spot in the levels. The FED has some control and during "normal" times can...

Which Yahoo API are you using? In addition to the textbook I recommended in an earlier post, consider the following.Back testing, like any computer simulation of the real world (think engineering) has its limitations. Even with tick data, you can't assume the trades you want to make will be...

One of my favorite texts on developing trading systems is Design, Testing and Optimization of Trading Systems by Robert Pardo There is now a second edition which I have not read. Second Edition

If I recall correctly, the top hedge fund manager made nearly $4,000,000,000 (4 Billion Dollars) in 2009. A hedge fund is a private arrangement with some government regulator requirements. The deal the manager makes with the investors is as flexible and remunerative as his reputation...

I am embarking on a limited implementation of FIX with thinkpipes. I'm a retired software engineer, so we shall see how much rust has accumulated on my skill set. I will still use the interactive (retail) platform for trade execution. The Decision Support Panel for my Credit Spread Dashboard...

A great question. I became committed to concealed carry as a result of the VPI tragedy. Many years before this tragedy I had walked that campus and been in that building while recruiting for my company. I also frequently visited the campus while my son and his fiancée pursued graduate...

As a recent college graduate, you will appreciate that you would be unlikely to succeed at the senior level courses if you had not taken the prerequisites. My opinion is that you should learn and practice trading strategies that do not require split second decisions. Once you have the...

When I was younger I believed participating in certain activities would permit me to associate with a "higher class" of people than the world in general. During my training to become a private pilot, I was certain that pilots was such a group. To my chagrin, there are class A jerks who are...

Let's sprinkle some facts among the uninformed opinions. From Investopedia: An aggressively managed portfolio of investments that uses advanced investment strategies such as leveraged, long, short and derivative positions in both domestic and international markets with the goal of generating...