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    Power lines and EMFs

    EMFs are made up of two components, magnetic fields and electric fields. you can easily measure magnetic fields, but electric fields are near impossible to measure outside a lab setting. thats the physics background, and i'm sure you'll find other input elsewhere.
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    Moving Stops in Your Favor

    i asked the same question a few weeks ago, but got close to no response: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=159191
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    Daytraders favourite securities to trade

    some quick math on today's data: SPY => vol x price => 276,000,000*83.93 = $23,164,680,000 QQQQ => 124,000,000*32.18 = $3,990,320,000
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    Single Stock Futures Do Fall Under Pattern Day Trading

    from the IB page: Day Trade: any trade pair wherein a position in a security (stock, single-stock future (SSF), bond or stock option) is increased ("opened") and thereafter decreased ("closed") within the same trading session.
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    AP Newsbreak: Obama looks at climate engineering

    despite the fact that i think global warming is indeed happening, we should not be fucking with the atmosphere for a plan to reduce solar input. climate engineering - the phrase scares the hell out of me even though i'm studying to be a petroleum engineer.
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    what the hell is scalping

    why don't you fucking read some of youngtrader's 1000+ posts. he and i have been here for quite a bit longer than you, and i've seen him post some information you're asking about. he has posted some good stuff in the past. basically, fuck off and quit asking others to prove you wrong without...
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    Zen Fire API

    yeah zenfire was built and then ninjatrader was built around zenfire, so i'd say thats as close as you can get
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    Oil sands break even = $40/barrel, double digit returns = high 40's-50 range

    oil from oil sands and oil shale has been "just above breakeven" for close to 30 years now, no matter how much oil costs.
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    stops: what to do with them?

    stops are an essential part of any trading strategy, but how exactly should they be handled? when i first started trading, i used trailing stops exclusively. i always wanted to "lock-in" that profit. it caused me to not be so profitable. then i switched to completely static stops and...
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    Do you feel that you will have not have lived until

    i sometimes feel this way. sure, i am happy with the present, but there is just so much more i could do if i were had more money. a favorite quote of mine, "money is a tool without instructions."
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    NinjaTrader - Stay Away From It!

    how about rewriting to take advantage of more than one core?
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    Crazy! TDAmeritrade asks for 100% margin for buying a Long Call or Put option

    yes, you need to purchase each put and call outright. they laid out the math easy to see: 5 puts at $2.50 = $1250. 5 calls at $1.75 = $875. total: $2125. each of those puts and calls must be paid for up front in cash. there is no margin for going long a put or call. i think that TD...
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    Why is CNBC pushing marijuana?

    now i'm not sure what cnbc would have to gain from promoting marijuana, but all government on all levels (state, fed, local) could use a nice boost in tax revenue...
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    Scalpers, does your frontend software have "headcount"

    unless the headcount is provided from the exchange, it would seem very inaccurate.. the software would have to do some voodoo magic to obtain the number otherwise.
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    ES - How to rollover to June

    buy back the march and sell the june?
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    Emergency Backup Plan

    how did the trade turn out? either way, this is an eye-opener.
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    Best retail platform for backtesting high frequency strategies?

    i wrote a NT indicator that writes ticks out to a flat text file, and for ES, the file is around 5MB per day with the format hh:mm:ss.fff;price;vol. an example tick would look like: 10:11:03.345;768.5;32. the nice part about text files is they compress really well.. the 5MB text file...
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    Why you struggle if you have 99.99% chances you won't even make a living by trading?

    thats a widely known fact... only 1-5% of traders are successful
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    Quotetracker with Ameritrade Streamer for Tick & Trin

    i just added the two symbols $TICK and $TRIN, and it is working fine for me oh and they done have historical data for these.. all real-time
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    BACKTESTING: only 25% winners on MA crossovers?

    well i've done alot of work too, and haven't found anything that works yet either...
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