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The dollar's been artificially overvalued since '96 (ever since Rubin engineered interest rate/gold divergence). Support at current levels require too much capital inflow. All it would take is certain middle eastern countries pricing their oil in euros instead of dollars, and the game would...

If you really want to do it the hard way, go to freshmeat.net and check out the open source stuff available. most of it should compile w/ gcc (and numerous tweaks to the makefiles). Honestly, it will be cheaper in terms of your time to just buy another pc.

I had this conversation (over the phone, no less) the other day: Friend: "My monitor is blueish in the corner, and has a green spot in the middle." Me: "Take the speaker away from the monitor." Friend: "There are no speakers near the monitor." Me: "Take the speaker away from the...

If you must have the clicky-clicky PavlovianMouse(tm) interface, I think Esignal now has order entry integrated w/ ib. < alt-tab > F3+++ ctrl-x ctrl-b

Unfortunately, you will not be able to access usa wireless providers. The networks are based on the cellular infrastructure, and do not have enough range to reach you best regards, laz

Ahh theres the rub. To make smaller tick sizes viable, you have to have greater margin available. I am not arguing for tinier contracts, just smaller tick sizes. W/ more margin, liquidity providers can still make a profit. I'm sorry if what I wrote came across that way. I was trying to...

Much-maligned just means "everyone complains about them". I'm not saying they're bad or good. I'm certainly not advocating socialism, nor am I a socialist. Exactly. My point was this: One's trading method is either based on exploiting discontinuity (larger tick vals), or is enhanced by...

Ummm. Is it just me, or are you complaining about not being able to make money with the same methods the much-maligned market-makers use? Narrowing spreads implies that traders have to make an effort at price prediction (even at the 1-5min level), not just be quick on the keyboard...

I just moved to a compaq presario 6050.. quiet quiet quiet. If you're building your own: 1. Spend at least 2x what you spent on your last power supply. 2. Find a quality cpu fan. 3. Move to graphics cards that don't require fans.. (I have a matrox g550, and will get the pci g450...

Day traders (and all speculators, in fact) absorb risk and make the market more efficient. Decimilization alone has not made spreads tiny...

It can be.. that's why you practice with the demo system.. From the menubar: Configure->HotKeys Esignal offers integrated order execution.. Ahhh, but its so much cooler than that.. Hotkeys turn it into a video game (dangerous thought, I know)

I have RR too, but if you're serious about trading (and you've been profitable for awhile), it makes sense to invest in a t-1 if you're in a major metro area.. Around here you can get a fractional (256kbps) for $500 or less, including the loop charge. If you're really serious, get a...

No way. Too much debt. No 'consumer of last resort'. No earnings. No credit quality. And a bull market in the Dollar that's lasted wayyyy too long. The piper still awaits payment. Don't get me wrong.. I really hope you're right (it would be wonderful for us consultants..), but I think...

Nooooooooo. Never trust what they tell you on the phone. Earlier this year, I got a bill from the IRS for $20k. I called-- the person on the other end of the phone made the following errors: 1. Contradicted the tax code, and the relevant IRS Pubs. 2. Threatened to expedite the...

I have been thinking about this a lot, esp. since eSignal offers FX quotes, and the FX markets are very 'technical'. My first thought was cheap office space and 3 people to call me if 'the internet is down' ;) For me it's scraping up enough capital to do it.. I can't yet quit my dayjob...

This is a really important concept, esp. if you're trading over multi-day timeframes. If I were looking to do the same thing, I would take a non-optimized backtest of 1 year, and calculate the Maximum Beneficial Excursion (MBE- or some may call it MFE I think) for each trade. What you're...

I think you're talking about a monte carlo simulation. You would figure the expectation for each path (chance of this path occuring * result) and then adding them. I could be way off base.. I barely remember my combinatorics/discrete class. regards, laz

I don't know about their desktops (I build my own, and I can fix it faster than they can).. But the laptop support is great, even when I poured water on my keyboard. They've been out, wherever I am in the world (I travel a lot on the job), within 24 hours and fixed whatever is broken...

If you don't need anything more than 'boilerplate', or standard partnership agreements, etc, why not use a service like www.corporate.com or it's many competitors. Almost all of them can get an llc filing done within a week. I have no relationship with them, other than that I have used...

Neuroshell trader (all versions) does walk-forward testing. You really need o-o-s when you're optimizing a system. Just remember, after a couple of walk-forward tests over the same period (with the same system), you've brought the o-o-s data in-sample, and thus the validity of the...