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    Props with APIs

    What kind of returns are you talking. With the type of trading you are talking I'm guessing a hedge fund would be better than a prop group.
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    Trying to understand Crude Oil Futures

    No it will be approximately the same price as on Fri.
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    Excel 2007... importing intraday data and calculate correlation

    I love someone using search! I'm not sure how to do it that way. When I do that, I use the application on time now + time. should be easy enough to find. I record a macro to insert a line, moving all previous data down and paste values the new data. I hope that helps.
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    Ideas for a "conditional" hedge

    Either the hedge reduces enough risk that you can trade larger to make up for reduction in profits during up years or it doesn't. have you looked at buying long dated SP500 puts? constant cost with more protection when you need it and you benefit from increases in volatility.
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    Four 24" ASUS monitors and quad monitor stand for sale

    where are you located?
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    ADL

    Thanks. I have talked with everyone TT related that I can. I was wondering if anyone knew of a third party work around.
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    ADL

    Anyone use ADL? I'm just learning. I need to ability to turn on a strategy automatically at a certain time. Can anyone help. Specifically, I want to run a strat on Eurex and don't want to wait up until midnight to turn it on. All strats seems to pause on market closes. Is there another...
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    FREE TRADING ADVICE for aspiring traders

    Interesting. I haven't found technical indicators to be of much use personally. If I understand correctly you are buying at the extremes of your proprietary channel. Do you takes trades on both sides or just entry with trend. Exit middle of channel or other side?
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    E mini inverse/ hedge

    rusell 1000 thin but best correlation
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    New performance metric - Could I get your help?

    Seems problematic. I stopped at 50. Any more than that is asking too much. Also sometimes both look invest able, sometimes neither. I would look at changing the methodology.
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    VBA loop help

    Thanks. It tried some of the free tutorials, but I still need a bit more help. Which language should I focus on at codeacadamy? I think python is the closest, but I didn't see a vb/vba course? I think the Data table function gets approximately what I am looking for. Not perfect but a...
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    VBA loop help

    Sorry if this is basic, but I'm looking to set up a loop. I have a spread sheet and I want to test a range of variables and save the results. I'm good with excel, but learning VBA. So the loop would start at value 0, copy results and value. Change value +1. record new result and new...
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    Successful System Traders

    I ran a mainly automated system. Helped a ton in increasing size from what I had been doing manually. Track your trades with what your system would have predicted. This helps gauge correct slippage and quicker feedback on whether you should intervene or not. I usually beat my automated.
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    Brain Teaser for Prop Interview

    As with all these interviews, change it into a math question. Actual accuracy is not important. ie I flew to Spain in college. It was a 7 hour flight. I saw connecting flights to rome that had flight times of 1.5 hours. Assuming 30 minutes is lost on take off and landing, It would be...
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    Capital Available for Traders

    After reviewing your site, a couple more questions. Are you downloading positions or just P&L? Can the trader change the update procedure to monthly only? What is the calculation of the score? How could I improve my score if I don't know the methodology? Thanks
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    Capital Available for Traders

    Is the 50-50 split on money Rapa brings to the fund or the whole fund? Mike
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    FX options

    Which etfs do you look at? All the ones I checked had huge spreads. Thanks
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    FX options

    That's great to know they will fill inside the market. I envisioned computers that would wait until you paid the whole spread.
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    FX options

    What venue do people use to trade FX options that has the lowest bid/ask spread. Everything I find seems to have hug spreads. Thanks
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