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    Cloning hard drive

    I just installed an identical 500 MB WD hard drive that was designated E: on an XP SP3 machine. By the way, HD prices have tripled and a shortage is along the way. I want to clone my C: drive to this one for obvious reasons. I have some questions for those who have done this: 1. What is...
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    Calling all MFGlobal Customers

    http://beta.finance.yahoo.com/news/insight-clients-fled-mf-global-060415859.html
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    Kaufmann Risk of Ruin

    You cannot have ruin probability > 100%. Probability cannot be > 1. But IMO he wasn't talking about the MC result, I believe. He pointed to the formula result.
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    The curse of systems trading/Why does this happen

    The Curse of Induction by intradaybill Induction is a powerful logical process for obtaining general rules from observations. It has been used in science since the days of Galileo and Newton to derive laws of nature. The curse of induction is that some people use just a couple of...
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    US is the biggest currency manipulator, bar none.

    I don't understand the logic behind this statement. The Chinese have pegged their currency to the dollar so why should they care? The Europeans are complaining about a weak euro and try to make it stronger, bringing the dollar even lower. So who is complaining about a weak dollar? Nobody, just...
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    Question for Neural Net Users

    This is the case according to my limited experience (just 25 years): Step 1: Data mining: find rules (here you have data mining bias problems) Step 2: NNs: Combine rules (here you have fitting problems) Step 3: Genetic programming and walk forward optimization: get the final system with...
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    Question for Neural Net Users

    This post by MAESTRO voted an ET masterpiece by me. +++ Can you explain a bit "merenony"?
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    can someone explain Italy 10 Year bond importance

    An immoral act for sure, as such amnesty essentially legalizes crime receipts. The easy way out is for the EU to print some money. Germans cannot rule everyone else for much longer.
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    can someone explain Italy 10 Year bond importance

    You probably think drug dealers are stupid people and they will put their money in institutions that are ready to be nationalized all over the EU.
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    can someone explain Italy 10 Year bond importance

    Because Italy must refinance 40 billion euro of its expiring debt in 2012 and the market will not be willing to lent any money at reasonable rates. ---> default This happens because the EU is setup with a monetary system like that of the gold standard. Via accumulation of surpluses Germany...
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    15% SPX Drop in a Single Day - Did Anybody Else Catch this Dream?

    With a 6% I call it quits for the rest of the year. I had that dream last night.
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    How do I create a bot?

    Inefficiency in the markets? Even if they exit, do you think they are waiting for your bot to hit them? What is GS doing? Just watching your bot making money? There no market inefficiencies. There is only a market and its action. What you call an inefficiency its someone else's efficient...
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    Trading Math - Part I

    Go and never come back. Actually you should not have posted your copy and paste here without even giving credit to its author. Please take Mike805 with you. You need eachother. Go pls...
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    Trading Math - Part I

    Mike805 came in without having read the whole thread and noticing that I reformulated the problem better and he lets his poops all over the place again, along with the idiot kut2k2 and some other degenerates, so I will have to say bye for now and thank DontMissTheBus for his contrinution and...
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    CME Harddrive futures hit limit up today.

    Limit up on ballpoint pen futures right now
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    Trading Math - Part I

    I have met many cranks but never one like you. This was the problem statement: "Define: 1. A trading system that generates entries and exits with some frequency F > 0 per unit time and starts with bankroll B. 2. A Cummulative profit objective P 3. A time to quit for good objective T 4...
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    Systematic Trading Strategies

    This does exactly what you are looking for and I am willing to share it here for free. It does predictions, the kind you are looking for.
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    Trading Math - Part I

    Why does an idiot like you think what you wrote has anything to do with the problem I posed? Did I speak of unit bets? Did I speak of q < p? NO. So why the hell you feel you have to come to this thread and piss all over the place? Here is how I stated the problem imbecile moron...
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    Do you see patterns in Random Walks?

    Black–Scholes show a practical application already:). Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibrat%27s_law
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    Advice on platform choice

    You still need to know how to program to use EL. It is a fallacy that people with no programming experience can use EL. If you don't know what's a loop, a function, an index, order of instructions, etc. you cannot program anything in EL. The thing EL gives to programmers is the high level...
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