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24" is all i can handle, i think above that the resolution makes it difficult and you are better off with multiple lcds. But a 30" 1080P lcd tv is ok for those who prefer big text.

DMO, think i got it now. Below is the formula in my prog for delta using blackscholes. Are you saying instead of using the SAME underlyingPrice, use the forward price, which will be different due to the different expiration. 1) How do you calculate the forward price? is the one on wiki...

wtf are you talking about, that is utter bs. Point me 1 guy on that trading floor (other than the floor cleaners) who make less than 70k a year.

Nice call, thanks for bumping this old thread. Got in yesterday, and out today for a quick +5%. Was going longer term, but given the current crazy market and good profit already on the table. I took it. The daily chart is a toss right now, it may fill the gap all the way up to 28.5 or...

I am looking at the USO short AUG2008 99P(delta=0.54, gamma=0.4) long JAN2010 109P(delta=0.45, gammer=0.007) What is the underlying reason the delta of 99P is greater than 109P when 109P is deeper ITM? I know it's related to the different expiration date, but does anyone know the...

lol

how come you bought the underlying straight up instead of an option play?

nice car with lots of cool tech, but i dont think it will beat 911 turbo any time soon :p

I find it interesting in almost all other type of trading ie: swing/trend etc.. there are many details being discussed. Yet in almost every scalping thread, noone is ever able to discuss any techniques or details other than the high level overviews which is pretty useless for actual trading...

how do you scalpers place order for entry/exit? I am just starting trying to scalp 1 contract of es mini as an experiment on the slow days. I have 6 buttons - 3x bracket buy/sell at 1tick, 2 tick, and 4 tick(1pt). For example for the 1 tick bracket buy button, it will buy at market, at the...

It's not nonsense, it's dramatization. Those numbers are old news and updated frequently. Now if you said something similar about credit cards with numbers to back it up, then maybe it's worth a discussion. Because the credit card issue currently is not part of the pre-existing market...

Again you are completely clueless. Nail in the coffin? that phase was done after citadel came to the rescue, no analyst is expecting a bankruptcy without some major blackswan event taking place right now. The canadian sell was a big win for etrade, and confirmed by the market price action...

Yes exactly a long term play, and no praying required. Everything is in respect to the current price and the business model. Unlike those other financial firms that has a broken model now, etrade's future profitability is not broken at all. You really dont know what you are talking about...

i am holding about 20k shares in my long term account at avg of $2.8 as a result of 6 month accumulation. The trade range for this stock is pretty predictable at 2.5 (low) to 5 (high), it will stay that way until the books are cleaned or a buyout. Many will disagree but I think it's a pretty...

in mySQL database, look into the "LOAD DATA INFILE" command for batch data uploads. I havent done a complete run through backtesting yet, as i just finished loading the data(took 12 hours on my local core2duo desktop) and starting to write the backtesting system in java. In term of...

how the hell do you guys manage to start a flame war with each other in a thread discussing historical data feeds? the mind....boggles.... All those vendors are making this way too complicated, one site wants me to use his software just to read the data, another has it in some odd format...

Jon is the best! http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=176739

Yes i found plenty of websites selling the es tick data for only a few hundred bucks, the problem is i really dont know how accurate they are. Your back testing is only as good as your data, i know cme's data is 100%...maybe i am just being paranoid. The java program is somethng i will write...

Demo, you are in a better situation than most to make the switch as 1) you are familiar with the system already 2) in front office so have working relationship with the trading desk. But you need a few more years at least in IT i would say. If you dont have a good relationship with the...

Thanks i found it, tick data for es from 1997 till now is $3500, a bit more expensive than i expected, but the main problem is the file size, it's not a few GBs but 147GB! I guess they are giving you all the tick data for all the contracts regardless of front month or not. I was going to...