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According to the Dept of Treasury website, there was a 45 billion deficit in the period April-June and July is not posted yet. Where did the surplus number cited come from? DS

Mvic, I looked into using them for my house but if I recall the fee to join was about $5K give or take a thousand. In addition, after a struggle, I did get a price out of them for the cooktop we wanted and it was about the same as other suppliers were quoting and if I remember correctly they...

I'm currently building a custom home and I found the typical price structure for the area I'm building in as: Cost = time & materials consumed or used in construction plus consumables, insurance, engineering costs, shipping costs, permits and a few other fees. Adm Overhead - 4% of cost...

This week my modified system had a losing week: 8/1 -0.4% 8/2 even 8/3 no trade 8/4 +0.2% 8/5 no trade I added a stop based on VWAP to the system and think it will cut the bigger losses. Testing shows it enhances performance some. Next weeks trading will start using it. DS

IT would be better if you stuck to the science rather than political statements like, " Mother nature is trying to compensate on the opposite side of the hemisphere to your profit-driven pollution, for chrissakes and that's a good thing?" If you wish to discuss the science and one of my...

I use both but prefer a desktop because: 1. Bigger screen, 21" v 17" 2. Keyboard fits my hands better 3. Better mouse. 4. Better sound system with desktop. I listen to music all day while trading and the laptop sound sucks. 5. Desktop is faster and has backup drive built in. DS

Anyone know anything about this firm and the systems they are selling? http://www.accuratetradingsystems.com TIA, DS

Don't think that was an answer. To me there is still a lot of disagreement over how much warming there has been and how much is caused by human activity. A good source for this is from the father of global warming, James Hansen, who has significantly changed his views on how much of the...

Sure had me fooled as it's titled: "Ice Shelf collapse was ..." SO again, if global warming caused the collapse, why is the ice field on the other side of Antarctica getting bigger? And why are the dry valleys on this continent getting colder? And why is James Hansen, the father of global...

That link was about the North Sea. I thought this thread was about anarctic ice sheets that are either getting bigger or smaller. Or are you changing the subject since you have no explanation why some get bigger while others get smaller. DS

CHE Started trading in '93. IMO, this background was not much help except in having a head start in coding. The longer I trade, the simpler my systems become. My goal is to one day have a 2 lines of code system. DS

You should checkout tradestationworld.com regarding version 8.1, their latest and how extremely slow it is especially radar screen. DS

There have been some comments from TS that seem to indicated they finally publically acknowledge the snail like performance and that they are fixing it. Maybe it was when some to their most prominent users complained that instead of taking under a minute to load their charts it was taking near...

Try looking at Tradebolt. DS

The modified system has roughly a 30-35% return this year. Calculating returns gets tricky. This return is based on trading the system using IWM not ER2 and assuming I'm trading at daytrade margin. I do trade it about a third of the time on ER2 so I would think my actual returns are better...

My modified version of this strategy trading IWM had a nearly even week, making enough to get a nice bottle of wine: 7/25 +0.1% 7/26 -0.2% 7/27 no trade 7/28 +0.5% 7/29 -0.3% DS

listed, Tough behavoir to overcome. I had the same experience. And to compound the problem, I added keeping losers too long. What helped me was keeping a side by side dairy of what I did and what the system did. After staring at how stupid I was for a couple of months, I got better at...

YUP. There are 3rd party tools to trigger TS generated trades with the "other" broker; some cost and some are free. DS

When I backtested this strategy, I used $RUT.x and used if I recall correctly 8 or 9 years of data. It showed a couple of periods of relatively bad performance like it has this year so I'm not concerned about what it is doing so far this year. Also, June and July have been good months for it...