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You need to remember that even thought the Ad Blocking software might prevent the ad from showing on your machine you may still be using as much (or more) of your machine's resources and bandwidth by receiving the ad and blocking it locally. One of the solutions to getting around having the...

Thanks for the insight Don. Completely off the topic I notice that you and I had an almost identical tag line / signature - mine seems to have dissappeared off my profile though.

Don, is that not the same as an index that trades 23.5 hours a day? I ask this because, as I mentioned earlier, you can usually find a 24 hour market in an NYSE stock by going through a spreadbetting or similar company? Guy

Johnnyfive, you lost me a bit there. Did you take a $3k account to $52k in 3 months? Or was that a hypothetical example?

What are the stats?

Try speed reading the manual in half an hour. You will be amazed at how much you pick up. Then do a practise test and speed read the manual from beginning to end again. Second past with some unanswered questions in your mind will double your knowledge. This is the fastest way to absorb a...

I know that you understand why trade4succes but just in case there is a newbie reading this: If you flip a coing ten times and each time it comes up heads, then what is the probability that it will come up tails on the next flip? Assuming a fair coin, the probability is 50%. The coin does...

Charlie, What do you mean by this? If you're trading a pit traded contract that has a contract that could be proxied by an overnight electronic contract then this sort of concept would probably exist everywhere. I believe that you can almost always proxy any market through some 3rd...

How is the development of your mechanical system going? Are you up or down? I did a simple back test on pivot points and posted my results here under the following title: Do Pivot Points work? One of the big problems with determining if pivot points work or not is subjectivity around...

CBOT Trader Newsletter: August 8, 2005 CBOT® Fed Watch Based upon the August 8 market close, the CBOT 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract for the August 2005 expiration is currently pricing in a 100 percent probability that the FOMC will increase the target rate by at least 25 basis...

Thanks dcraig, Very interesting site but appears to be semi-dormant. Have you installed and run their screensaver?

Would you donate your computer idle time to run back tests for trading strategies? I designing some back testing software which will have distributed processing much like the SETI@Home project. Simply: The trader would download some software which would run in the background. When the...

This is the result of the other poll. This was from the trading comunity codeproject.com Option % Yes, for all sites 48.0 Yes, for sites with obnoxious advertising 12.8 Yes, except for a few select sites 15.3 I used to, but no longer 3.9 No, but am planning to 3.0 No and...

I saw this poll on a programming community board and am interested to compare it to the trading community.

I had the same question. I don't think that you can use a cash index for a gap study. I believe (and I could be wrong) that the cash index will open the day using the first traded price or last quoted price of any stock. So if, for example, half of the index doesn't trade in the first...

I thought that the league table showed that the last 2 months were back to back 30 pointers each - in the ES. That's not too bad a profit for a gap strategy is it not? Or does that qualify as not working?

I agree lurefo, During my first year of colleage I created a system for betting on the ponies and tested it during that year. I collected the race cards from all the races for the year in my province (2 a week) and did all the calculations on Lotus 123. My worst drawdown was losing 9 races...

Very true spike - you'd have to split it across a few accounts. true again - however I like the idea that 5 back to back 5 point days (i.e. half the daily range) - would take an account from $5k to... End of Day 1 -> 10 2 -> 20 3 -> 40 4 -> 80 5 -> 160...

:) I know that you're joking nononsense but you got me thinking extreme stuff: Some brokers allow you to day trade a margin of $500 per contract so that means you could trade 10 ER2 contracts with $5,000 start capital. Now if you take a look at the Daily Notes page you will see that the 10...

Well what job cannot be done from almost anywhere now? If physical pressence is required then that can be delegated real time. I've seen an advert recently where a surgeon remotely operated on a patient 2,000 miles away.