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here's an unfortunate question, is it possible to pay more in taxes than actual net profit generated on equity trades? i added stocks to my trading this year, haven't elected MTM so far, and a few months into it am seeing that realized short term loss is consistently a pretty high % of realized...

anyone who watches $DXY intraday and EOD, did you notice the intraday close at 85.22, but the EOD on a daily shows a snap back up to a close of 85.88?

i probably misused the term. i simply meant to point out that systems are usually curve fit with that many inputs/vars. it's observable with optimization on one set of history and application to another.

probably banks tipped off and frontrunning liquidity injections ahead of the meeting, to create the appearance of a bullish market for the fed http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/omo/dmm/temp.cfm shouldn't the fed have a .com domain? aren't they a private bank with shareholders

they were up in an exaggerated fashion the last few days compared to most world mkts, does look like a pretty massive drop today tho wish these were shortable at IB

i'm counting something like 10-15 degrees of freedom so far in this 40yroldtrader system and it sounds like there are many more undisclosed. just because i've never seen it obviously says nothing, but i've never seen something functional with anywhere close to that many moving parts. i...

first screaming, now laughing. get off the rag before you trade again osorico

i didn't mean to take the thread off topic, i thought it was relevant enough to a conv on the retail pit choices and your reconsidering ecry. take it easy or start your own thread if you're that sensitive. wow

ids - thanks vm for the link. any sense of when IB might bring the comex online? access to copper with IB's standards would be a great opportunity dandxq - thanks vm for the tip, i didn't realize global had the lme, tocom, etc. will look into that

looking forward to getting nymex pit functionality in IB i set up xpresstrade, made a few good trades, but seeing my limits show up in access and fill reporting were inconsistent and sometimes non-existant without a call i was considering trying ecry globalfutures sounded like a good...

"The retail trader always pays the bid/ask spread, which makes his odds of winning less than those of a fair game, though all traders, regardless of what market they trade, also pay this spread." incorrect

congress should control the money supply. not a perfect solution, but at least it takes it out of the hands of a private corporation and into the hands of the democracy Jackson tried it, Lincoln tried it, Kennedy tried it.

i love 100% program trading to go

http://cbcl.mit.edu/publications/virtual-financial-markets.html

there is a field of research, 'virtual markets' where people go into serious depth on the subject. you would probably start there

who here understands psyme? has anyone identified the secondary exe this trojan is attempting to put on our machines? thx

funny guys. so maybe seperate machines on one network will be ok. network security is a real issue for the obsessive compulsives.... without having written everything on my box, i have no clue what could be going on one regret with mcafee fw is that it doesn't seem to ask as often about...

yes and yes. great suggestions. i changed the pwd, and use wpa2. nice one on the key length, i will use the max once just to mess with a guy who was surfing from a car in front of my building, i changed my SSID to 'volkswagonparkedonXYZst' ... in this case, i'm most concerned with...

thx again, very insightful. then i guess it really comes down to how much you trust a site, since any of the outsourced content, ads, etc, could potentially carry malicious wares now i see why i can't get rid of ave a for the life of me. if every site i visit is really hitting 5 places...

lol man. thanks for your help too. i'm in paranoia-land here since that trojan last week. the other thing i'm wondering is how naked my ethernet drive is, not sitting behind a software firewall i want to stop working in an administrator account at all times. it seems like xp limits the...