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kupa, science and engineering are perfect backgrounds to work at any number of algorithm-driven trading firms. I'd suggest looking to Chicago (or NY as a distant second) for such an opportunity.

Eh, you're thinking stocks. MMs can trade energy futures on the CME any time they want. However, it's hardly worth their time to do so at 7pm.

Report or no, last night was more active than it has been in months, all through the night. Something is afoot.

How many people do you think are making markets at what, 7 pm EST?

I don't understand. I heard this rumor over Bloomberg before the close, around 1pm CST.

I wanted to say one more thing to the OP... If you have to ask this question on a public board, then your system is NOT so speed-sensitive as to require C++ over Java.

I'm with dcraig.

You took me too literally. Price stops "close" to Fib levels sometimes; other times it blasts through them; other times it meanders through them; other times it blast through and then meanders back across, etc. As far as its role in nature, this is overblown, too...

I've seen a lot of floor traders try to trade the screen based upon their technicals and fail. I think what happen is a trader makes a lot of money on the floor one day, based upon his knowledge of paper orders coming into the ring, and later he looks at a chart. "Wow, there's a Fib right...

I bet your performance will be unchanged if you change it to reverse any retracements between .4 and .8, though.

I'm with Thunderdog

Bingo.

The question is misguided. Does protectionism serve to protect the industry on behalf of which the protectionism is incurred? Of course. So, the answer to your question is probably "no." Likewise, the American textile industry would not be as "strong" as it is today, were it not for our...

Sorry, I find the ivory-tower cry very tiresome. There are mountains of empirical evidence (aka "real world" data) that damn protectionism on just about every level. I assure you that just about every single economist that comes down on the side of free trade has considered the history of...

I must sharply part ways with you here. You will find few propositions about which there is greater unanimity amongst professional economists than that of unfettered trade being good for all countries who participate. Manufacturing protectionism is just as bad if not worse than...

Since you're only 16, I won't make fun of you for this remark. I will politely say, however, that you don't know what you're talking about.

Again, I'm with you with regards to government payrolls.

Well, it's been about a decade since the bottom really fell out of manufacturing employment, and while no doubt some of these former assembly line workers now work for Home Depot (which, if you ever seen an assembly line worker's day, you know working for Home Depot isn't a step down at all)...

If these jobs suck so much, why has the average inflation-adjusted compensation steadily increased over the past two decades while, at the same, the number of manufacturing jobs has fallen through the floor? Your characterization of service sector jobs is also misleading. Consider the fact...

I understand complaining about increasing gov't jobs, but I don't understand your complaint about the service sector jobs. Are you an Austrian with a special love for manufacturing?