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Complete idiots. Normal business ventures have a higher probability of ruin than intraday trading because you must invest bigger amounts and it just takes a single loser to ruin you. Restaurants, shops, factories of all kinds, you name it, have a higher ruin rate than intraday trading. Open a...

Real-time BDI? No such thing. http://www.investmenttools.com/futures/bdi_baltic_dry_index.htm#freight_rates

"There are those who try to predict the future, and there are those who make it happen" intradaybill

If you backup your files you will probably backup the viruses and spyware. Some of the new stuff is so intelligent they can hide anywhere and most antivirus have no clue about them. If you absolutely must backup some data I suggest the following: Use a flash drive and then go to a pubic...

My experience says otherwise. Many of my best trade signals came just before news events and several times when I was scared and switched the system off before news I missed good opportunities. The reason many blow-up during news events is because they are undecapitalized and get liquidated...

You do not trust your computer? Or yourself? Just asking...

There is causality between the futures and the index and some older studies have concluded that futures lead cash: http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=KXpS3x5Qn9KPfnGCfvh91SZyDVny2vBhbZjqhMlwcbyJC0DMfJC2!73151239!944498916?docId=5000129581 Some claim most of the impact...

Actually, hedgies rely on size, not so much platform. Have you tried Metatrader?

%Kelly is a real killer for 99% of the trading systems out there. Although it is anti-martingale position sizing and theoretically it can never reduce equity to zero, it does not accout for the possibility of a large drawdown to begin with and this probability is finite for any finite sample of...

I agree. But it still does what I want even with the hack so I don't care how it's done. I don't know that much about parallel computing anyway. Maybe my knowledge is too limited on this subject but I don't see how the example I gave is embarassingly parallel when the evaluation of one...

That won't work since the execution time will remain the same for a certain task for each of the machines. Writing multi-threaded applications is not that hard but it is not enough for improving execution time. You will either pay for the cost of the programming or for multiple instances...

Most programs use only 1 processor because the task of rewriting code for multiple processors is both difficult and expensive. Most sequential type of optimization and backtesting algorithms are not exactly suitable for multiple processing. There is a neat trick you can do to circumvent that...

Roubini: "Having commodities priced in dollars has also meant that a fall in the dollar’s value doesn’t lead to a rise in the price of imports." Really? Where has this guy been? During the recent commodity rally dollar exchange rate moved opposite to commodity prices. Gas prices...

Real traders take a break during the time you decided to post your question. http://fxtrade.oanda.com/tools/statistical_information/fx_open_orders_summary.shtml

There is a short, naked, sweet and clear answer to this:). Take small non-systemic risks and diversify.

Nothing causes problems to people other than their own incompetence and/or stupidity.

Do you require the platform to have trading system development capabilities or just to send trades to the broker online? If not, I recommend you skip the crap and go directly to IB. Not the best software (TWS) but something you can use in the future if you go the API way. QuoteTracker is...

Very important indeedly. But this is the easier part of the business. It can be done in excel.

That is not a proper question. A proper question is: Are profitable automated systems possible? You can have a perfectly automated trading system that does not make money. Like a fancy mouse trap that does not catch mice. The answer to the proper question is YES. One must...

Excellent system. I'm currently considering it for my automation. Visual Basic, Excel, Metastock, Tradestation, NinjaTrader, MetaTrader, to name a few. Programming has changed dramatically from "a long time" ago. IMO a trader should not be wasting time programming. You can hire an expert...