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It's because the US is still a very much puritan society. Lots and lots of people pretend that things like sex and nudity don't exist. So, whenever something comes through this veil of silence, it attracts immediate interest. Another reason is when sexual indiscretion is involved, public gives...

Depends on what you are doing for trading. If you are trading manually half a dozen of futures, it won't make much difference (unless the trading software is particularly demanding). If you are running a real-time market scanner on the whole of NASDAQ, a faster computer has a potential to make a...

This post must be a joke or something. In case, it's not a joke... avoid wood unless it's oak. Most wood is not durable enough for daily use of a keyboard and mouse - seriously. Tables covered with plastic are the most durable... after granite... but you don't want a granite table top in...

I guess the story is not about http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13381292

What about all the revenue from export of natural resources? Oil price has gone up 5-fold from $20 per barrel to $100. I understand you don't believe Russia had $484 bln in currency reserves in 2008 either...

A misprint has sneaked into my post should read "5) Soviet-era debt to foreign banks (known as London Club) was issued by Vnesheconombank."

At least, I provided analysis. Would you care to support your opinion with some analysis too? Also try to separate analysius from facts. So far you show that you are completely unaware of the factual side. Lets' go step by step... First, great info from Martinghoul. From...

I switched from Norton about 2 years ago. Untill that time I had used various versions of Norton for 6 years.

The main reason for Russian default in 1998 is apparently little known. In the year preceding the deafault the Russian government was trying to set-up a US-style system for financing the budget deficit. Instead of "printing money", which was the main way to finance any shortfall since the...

Medicine is a very special example. Because medical doctors (at least in theory) deal with matters of life and death daily in the most literal sense, simple degree is not sufficient and doctors run 2-3 years of practical experience before they are accepted as a "doctor". This is right to the...

The proiblem with Norton is their version release model model. Every year they release a new version of their Internet Security (sometimes 2 versions like actual Internet Security and Norton 360). Note that Internet Security is a "subscription" software. Because the main value of the software...

Because you are looking at a "margin" account IB caculates what margin the current position would use. Buying on margin means you borrow from IB in order to have sufficient purchasing power. In practice, you ddo not do any borrowing unless the required purchasing power is larger than the...

You must be talking of Scientology.

I will miss his banter.

I am still puzzled regarding what you want. Collective2 has a large number of systems. So, it's natural you need some "filtering" to select one that is right for you. As far as I know Tradestation doesn't come with thousands of trading systems... Is the question "where I can find a large...

You lack in the imagination department. See below. I would eneterpret this as "each of the last 3 years was profitable". Notice, this doesn't contradict to "stuck in an 18 month long drawdown". If the OP had an unusually large profit 18 months ago and quickly lost most of it, he could still...

Just choose a performance metric. Then you will be able to judge not only which strategy is better but by how much. Sharpe Ratio and Profit Factor are among many popular ones.

Most strategies are not computationally-intensive enough to stretch modern computers unless they run on hundreds of symbols. If a strategy does lag behind during spikes of market activity, the best thing is to see if it's really necessary to run all the computations on every tick. Say, running...

Anyone knows if Arthur Deco is still posting under a different name?

The fundamental reason for multiple order status reports is exchnages try to deliver order status as fast as possible to their high-frequency clients. For example, the order matching algorithm on the exchange has to match orders before it can calculate the fill price. As soon as the order is...