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I think before you can choose anywhere you have to set the criteria by which you're making your decision. This is my criteria not in any order: 1. Culture 2. Weather 3. Friendly people 4. Low crime rate 5. Natural beauty 6. Beautiful women 7. Entertainment 8. Food quality I...

Im in Melbourne. Go pies!!!!!!!!!!!! Runningbear

There usually insn't a commission on FX, you just pay the spead. The brokers margin is included in the spread. Runningbear

Personally I think that most successful people have a high fear of failure. Hense the reason they drive themselves to the limit. And ultimatly get more out of life. The thought of being average actually makes them feel ill. The average Joe is more likely to have a fear of success. I call...

I think you'll find that mosk futures brokers will accept an account from anywhere as long as your paper work is in order. Runningbear

Thanks for all the replys guys. I think I'm going to start with VB.NET. Their doesn't seem much point in learning VB6, then having to learn something else later if I want switch. Plus for very basic applications it doesn't seen like their is a huge difference in complexity. Thanks to all...

If your trading lots of 10 and your doing 15 R/Ts a day saving about $2 bucks per round turn, it adds up to about $300

Eurex is pretty smart launching identical contract specs. This way the two exchanges will arb each other, so even if their is a lack of initial liquidity for Eurex US, it won't matter as the bid/ask will pretty much be the same, with no gapping and price jumping usually asociated with new...

The recent thread on the best programming language to learn has inspired me to try and learn Visual Basic. I would eventually like to be able to build very simple applications for my own use, and visual basic seems to be the easiest language to learn, plus it appears to do everything I will need...

Do a search for "offshore" here on elite trader. There is a lot of information already covered. Also visit this link http://www.offshore-protection.com/internationalFiduciaryStructure.html Runningbear

I think people like the idea of using neural nets and GA's becuase it all sounds cool and cutting edge. The reality is that no one has been able to build anything capable of making trading decisions better than a trader. Sure some groups using them to optimise systems within a technical...

Nitro, I haven't seen the fight yet, but the rules of boxing do favour the agressor. De la Hoya is a great counter fighter, but maybe this time his fighting style off the back foot wasn't appreciated by the judges. A bit of a shame as I think technically at least De la hoya is a better...

You need to look into setting up a fiduciary structure. Runningbear

One thing about self belief is certain. If you truly believe you can do something, you may just do it. But if you believe you can't, you certainly never will. It's better to try and fail, than to never attempt something. If you never try, you never know and you just end up living an...

This is an interesting point Humans are the only creature on earth that doesn't know when to cut its losses. We are also the only creature in the animal kingdom that suffers from pride and ego. And these things can make people do stupid things. Runningbear

Have a look at the Hotbrick VPN 600 www.hotbrick.com It's a firewall and Dual Wan Router so you han manage two broadband connections for redundancy. Runningbear

I have no idea why any of that means, however your charts look very impressive Harry. Runningbear

I think everyone is mixing the point, Canadian dude is not saying he wants to start a hedge fund. He just wants to set up his accounts so he has an audited record if he ever decided to set up a fund in the future. He's just hedging his bets for the future (excuse the pun) If he turns 400K...

What a crap trading platform:D

Also read the Charlie Wright series of articles about system trading here: THis is an excellent starter. THe examples use tradstation however the concepts a relevant for use with any backtesting technology http://www.elitetrader.com/tr/ Runningbear