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    Nassim Taleb makes the rounds again

    The strike price of the options would be away from the current price by alot. My interpretation of the strike price for a 20 sigma event call option sigma = (StDev(Close,10) * 20) + Close; Ticker Date/Time change sigma Close ^GSPC 2/14/2006 1.1128 1419.41 1275.53 A 2/14/2006 1.28919...
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    Nassim Taleb makes the rounds again

    Hmm, I didnt even think they sold those. They could be 50% away from the current price.
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    Nassim Taleb makes the rounds again

    Can someone explain what sigma refers to in the context of an option? Taleb mentions this in his recent interview with Trader Daily. Specifically, how far out of the money are his options? Im familiar with gamma, delta, rho, etc.. but sigma doesn't show up in my options book - (by Haug, The...
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    Indian Historical Stock Data

    Anyone know a good source for Indian historical stock data so I can backtest? If someone has a ticker list for India to donate, that would be great. Thanks
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    Float way over 100%?

    Probably the turnover within the timeframe they use is higher than 1. Say the stock turns over in 1 day more than the float, or in a month, and all those institutions reported having XYZ % of the company on any given day.
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    NASDAQ Largest % Gainers

    amibroker can do it. Use free EOD data from yahoo.
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    Great book to learn Markets?

    Trend Following by Michael Covel The Trading Tribe by Ed Seykota that about covers it
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    Volitility and Leverage

    use ATR and point value to determine equivalent risk for different products.
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    Integrating News Into Automated Trading

    Portfolio123.com translates fundamental news to trade on once you specified what the fundamentals mean to your system.
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    Remaining Emotionless While Trading?

    seykota says in the trading tribe. Your real trading system is the emotions you fail to acknowledge. But he also recommends not daytrading, so figure it out.
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    all optionable stocks list

    http://www.poweropt.com/optionable.asp
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    SwiftTrade Campus

    Well, I stand by what I say. JMHO
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    SwiftTrade Campus

    I worked at the Hamilton office, in 2004. The operation could be described as a boiler room. Nick Jackson, who has probably since moved on because he couldnt trade, was the proprietor at the time. Im doing you a favour by saying dont waste your time there. It also does not look good on a...
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    SwiftTrade Campus

    Bad choice. I'd have more respect for you if you were at Tim Hortons or Kinkos, even McDonalds. JMHO
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    Nikkei 25,000!

    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18106914%255E2703,00.html supports your theory
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    backtesting program

    amibroker
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    Portfolio backtesting

    you could do it in amibroker, just add the code to a new system that uses all the functions of both systems.
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    Patenting a trading strategy !? ;-)

    Maybe this is her way of marketing to a slew of uninformed mid 40s dreamers who think they can make 200% return a year if they attend her seminar and learn about her patent pended trading strategy.
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    Canadian Equities Volume

    http://investdb.theglobeandmail.com/invest/investSQL/gx.index_gla?pi_symbol=TSX-I&pi_action=ACTIVES This should be what you looking for
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