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Yep, Shadowstats inflation is running 8%, and even the official CPI is in positive territory http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

I have some strategies (also daytrading liquid stocks, mostly reversion-to-mean type strategies) that were fine in 2006-2008 and died when the volatility died around April, May, June '09. Lack of volatility? Lack of liquidity? Lack of retail participation? Effect from QE/stimulus? I don't know.

I did not see on the website, what scope of historical data is available? Same as IQfeed?

A symptom of the goverment propping up the housing market .... the reporter said that many of these people are employed but there is still an overwhelming demand for government assistance to pay rent.

haha too funny ....

If you read the journal you would know 300k is $$$ size not shares. To balance small/medium/large positions it only makes sense to talk $$$ not shares.

The first step is to learn about implied volatility. Sign up at ivolatility.com to chart the IV and see how it moves. Say you are bullish on a stock, you should also form an opinion about the IV: If IV is low, traders aren't expecting much movement. If it explodes upwards, the IV goes up and...

This is ironic, because just yesterday I was thinking about stupid or embarrasing things I have done over the years. So I tried to tell myself it is silly to even think about it. Then I realized the reason it bugs me is because I still have those same bugs, I still do lots of retarded things...

Same here .... it is bugs in your brain, this is what they look like: http://vimeo.com/1963953

Maybe take up some kind of sports or physical exercise

LOL fine wine & ninja peanuts Do you live in China?

Same thing happens sometimes, over RDP. Although if I close and reopen TWS it is fixed (for awhile at least)

I started with option #1 but ended up doing it vertically because sometimes I had many parameters and horizontal became messy. For example I set up a strategy: Strategy1 thisStrategy = new Strategy1(); thisStrategy.stock = stock; thisStrategy.size = 50000.0; thisStrategy.useStop =...

You are correct, sir

I have an idea on that .... 200,000 traders, 3 pip spread even on EUR/USD, 13% interest is for actively traded accounts. A little incentive to trade like mad, and they share the wealth if you will. I'm just guessing, but it could work.

Integrated video makes it seem like a low end chip. But 6 CPU cores, and people who will never use 6 cores will pay $$$. :)

Cool story kon, I and so many others have heard that line :)

I didn't get an email, but I do at least 20:1 ratio trading ES via the API. As you have illustrated 10:1 is ridiculous. The real-time margin checking on a Universal account would be a big calculation, I bet they have a poor implementation that basically works but is much slower than it has to...

10:1 is quite low. This is the reason I made my original decision against using IB for stock trading. It is an IB policy - the only exchanges with such a tight limit would be the options exchanges.

For the purposes of this thread, I think all will agree that randomly optimizing systems on random data (or even price data) is useless. But for my purposes - I am using calculated datasets which may actually contain an edge.