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I'll be dipped. (The full quote is, "I'll be dipped gently in a bucket of $#!+." Thanks for that, Dad. You always knew he was *really* mad when he ripped through the entire thing..... This one, for me, was just a statement of wonder.....) I am jealous of you guys. *Totally* missed the "Octal"...

I don't think Munger/Buffet short. As avowed "value" guys, they seek under-valued assets, buy, and then hold until it looks like the ride is over -- either because the asset had risen, or because other factors had intervened to change the story. What does that mean for you (seeking to enter a...

Dammmnnnnnn. I dunnn-nnoooooo the answer but, I'm sure hoping to learn. TMc (who is just dipping the toe into Java *and* Python, JUST SO he can answer niggling little questions like this.......)

I have no idea what you posted. But yeah, you're missing something. If you can't recognize the SPY, here's the SPX index -- on your time period. And if you think that's at all special, here's PBR -- as in "Brazil." Same story told: great equivalency between ATR and σ. Period. No qualifiers...

Granted! But it was the ATR and σ that were being discussed, not trading biases that we bring ourselves. As I had mentioned above, I favor ATR for short-term, and σ for longer term -- but I recognize that that bias stems from my own weaknesses, and not in any objective measure of these data. I...

If you can't make the ol' Fibbis work, maybe the market can't, either.

Throw up a .png {File}{Save}{Chart Image} and we'll see if there's anything "D'oh!" obvious. I mean, I love TWS, but hey, this *is* TWS.......

Not to be a stinker or anything, but (1) There is no mathematical bias possible in either formula. (2) What you are saying is the same thing -- truly "six of one; half a dozen of another."

No. The graph provided was *your* time period, wherein you challenged that ATR and SD would behave differently. What was demonstrated was that they don't. What was originally contested by me, and protested by you, is that this similarity behavior (of a tunable ATR matched against volatility) is...

So, if I read this correctly, you *have* a feed, but it's html. 1) I *believe* Excel is perfectly happy accepting live html (or xml). I use OpenOffice, so I don't know the particulars, but my memory says you're good to go. 2) FWIW, OpenOffice is perfectly happy accepting (real-time) xml, and...

I'm not understanding how you don't have what you want in front of you.

I'm *way* with ya. Hiked the Appalachian Trail and then went to a way-leftie school and got a degree in tree-hugging. Then went to a right-wing, uber-laizzé-faire school to put numbers on it all. Solid edjumacation. Spent a career translating prospective legislation into human-speak, then into...

Nada. To quote Uncle Milty: "All else is elaboration."

Well, I can't tell if I'm all wet or not. I don't have time for a big search, but I did uncover the Barron's 2015 ranking: http://www.barrons.com/articles/barrons-2015-ranking-of-online-brokers-1425705011 and pulled this: "We decided not to include any of the 100 or so firms that utilize the...

IB has a recurring fund-transfer feature, but I don't know if it's by date, or what. I would never go for such a thing on a live account -- I want each transaction to be individually authorized -- too much at stake. ("For me.")

I hate to "report" what is in my brain a rumor, but isn't ETrade-Pro a relabel of IB's TWS?? If they have garnered a price advantage, that's cool, but if not, I'd just go IB. And maybe it's Fidelity Somthin'r'other that I'm thinking of. (Now, isn't that just *helpful*?? Sorry....)

Yeah, Sig, the UCS have a certain left-handed friendliness, but too, they know they face a hostile crowd, so they structure their work (from their inception) with a fair degree of rigor. One of the concepts that whuzhizname used correctly in a sentence was "lifecycle costs" so, kudos to him on...

My first trading successes were in tick-scalping equities. Learned so much about indicators, and news, and markets v. individual stocks. Phew! I'd screen by movement, and then by bid-ask spread/$price (as that was my use of capital).... I'd get a dozen or so, look for favorites (by which: those...

The default is to give the maximum number of available candles, so if it's not filled in, either your graph is a "today" graph (it must fill in from the left), or YOU have moved it forwards in time. If you've moved it forwards in time, you have done so via the whole-window sliders {bottom right}...