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Arb under par is correct. My calculation assumes you have a robust trading system delivering 15% to 30% percent without too much risk. The reason I make this assumption is because if you don't, then you are a fool to be trading that kind of money in the first place. Runningbear

Read it again. 300K if your annual target return, not your capital requirement. The next line says the capital requirement is between 1 and 2 million depending on the amount of risk you're willing to take per trade. Of course if your only willing to risk .25% of capital per trade, then your...

If I was going to build an ATS, I think I would use Open Quant as a testing environment. Once I had a strategy, I would build a dedicated trading app in C++ or C# to process trade data and deliver trade signals to my broker api as quickly as possible. I would have this app set up to...

15K a day over 200 trading days equals 300K per year. If you have a system returning 15% annually, then you require 2 million. If you have a system earning 30% then you only require 1 milion. However, it will vary depending on the amount you are prepared to risk on each trade. Risking a...

They know what they spent it on, they just can't tell you. It was used to fund things like illegal prisons, malitia uprisings and the bribing of small governments.

Sometimes I think people get caught up in theory too much. Trade your system with one contract and see how it compares to the simulated results. It's the easiest and most effective way to find out what you want to know. If you're doing a 100 trades in a session and your system has a positive...

Jay, Paper trading with tick replay is a great new function. How many days of historical tick data can you use? Also, a lot of EFS scripts that worked for me in versions up to 10.2 do not run in version 10.3. Will these scripts work in 10.4? Runningbear

I thought he blew out. Is he back. Runningbear

I started using Delicious to save my bookmarks. It also saves your existing firefox bookmarks as well so you can avoid losing all of the ones you've collected. Once you try it, you will never go back. Runningbear

I think the catalyst for a 30% rally will be a good six months of sideways movement. Runningbear

Even if its only worth $100 million, its still worth more than the entire US auto industry and banking system combined.:p Runningbear

One thing that I hate about chrome is that you can't select cut, paste and copy from a drop down menu. This makes extracting info for the web difficult.

The people who bagged your suggestion have just proven how little they know about trading and intesting in general. Shorting Stock you own is quite common. Shorting an identical size parcel to the postition you own is referred to as going short against the box. It's quite common among more...

Jay, this is a direct quote from the exchange newsletter taken from your site and published recently. http://www.esignalcentral.com/exchange/01_2009/your_trading_office.asp "Soon, eSignal will release its quad core software program version 10.3. Those traders who have the quad core i7...

I'm still using 8. When I upgraded to 10 there where memory issues. I didn't even bother with 10.2 I recently tested 10.3 only to discover that it doesn't run many of my EFS scripts. It says they have coding errors even if though they work perfectly in ver. 8. Also, 10.3 has issues...

Apple's core appeal is not Fashion based. It's user friendliness. Apple products are easier to use and manage than most other consumer electronics. This is a huge competitive advantage that continues to arode the PC market and now the mobile market. Apple is the only stock I wouldn't short in...

There were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. 5 years on and they still haven't found one. It was all made up by Chaney so Heliburton could take over Iraq's Oil industry. Even Alan Greenspan came out and publicly stated as much. As a non-American, I speak for the world when I say...

Batteries are dead. Get it. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/12/eestor-patent-ultracapacitors-hypercapacitors-electric-cars.php

New ultracapacitor technology will make batteries completely redundent within 5 years. It's likely they will be lighter, have no heat problems and will recharge almost instantly. Not to mention the fact that they will have a life span at least 4 times that of batteries. Runningbear

I read today that GM needs $18 Billion in loans just to make it through to Xmas. It dawned on me that one of the big three has to fold. Attempting to save all three will not solve anything. The US car industry needs to rationalise. If one declares bankruptcy, the other two will be in a...