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    Wealth of Nations worth reading?

    Here's an insight: "The increase of demand, besides, though in the beginning it may sometimes raise the price of goods, never fails to lower it in the long run. It encourages production, and thereby increases the competition of the producers, who, in order to undersell one another, have...
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    Excel Conversion help

    You can use the following equation: =LEFT(A1,3)+RIGHT(A1,2)/32 The only problem is that not all values will be XXX'XX. You can also have values like 90'5 (90 5/32) I think the following equation should work: =LEFT(A1,FIND("'",A1)-1)+RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND("'",A1))/32
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    Wealth of Nations worth reading?

    It's a great book if you are interested in economics (and history of). If you are only interested in trading, I don't see why you would waste your time. It's a long difficult book, but very insightful. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect...
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    ET traders fully automated

    I have a fully automated system. Well, almost. I rollover my futures, when I have to, manually. I could automate that too, but it's just as easy to do manually once every three months. For those who don't like sharpe with system trading, it depends on how your system works. With short...
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    Is there a broker comparable to IB?

    Why don't you open an account and do some of your trading with them? After at least a month (so you can see if you had any unexpected monthly fees), you can decide whether to stay with them.
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    Ideal Optimization

    Sortino is great for measuring past results, but I would never use it for optimization (others may disagree). All optimization includes some curve fitting. As such, large optimized gains could easily be large losses going forward. The fact that the system was correct on all big moves in the...
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    Bond rally nearing an end?

    That is crazy. Interesting that small speculators are basically neutral here. And 72% of large speculators are bullish. Anybody know the last time they've been so long?
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    Bond rally nearing an end?

    Thanks for the info. It's greatly appreciated. I've been long since July 14th (105.39 on the ZN) and am staying long for now.
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    Bond rally nearing an end?

    Can you explain this more? They are increasing their duration by .21? Meaning they'll be selling shorter term paper and buying longer terms?
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    Main Causes of the Great Depression

    So why do you play this zero sum game? Every dollar you make you are taking away from somebody else. You greedy capitalist pig!
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    Main Causes of the Great Depression

    JK means just kidding.
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    Main Causes of the Great Depression

    A team effort.
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    Main Causes of the Great Depression

    He'll know even more after he creates the next Great Depression. JK
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    Trading and Dating

    Desperate times call for desparate measures?
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    Main Causes of the Great Depression

    Wall Street fees equal to 40% of the investment. Nobody, not even hedge funds, charge that much.
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    Main Causes of the Great Depression

    I would correct that. First, they injected too much liquidity and then they removed too much. But that causes every recession. Add a trade war (Smoot-Hawley) and higher taxes: you got yourself a depression.
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    Main Causes of the Great Depression

    You can read it here: http://www.mises.org/rothbard/agd/contents.asp
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    Main Causes of the Great Depression

    Monty Python's Flying Circus - "Four Yorkshiremen" [ from the album Live At Drury Lane, 1974 ] The Players: Michael Palin - First Yorkshireman; Graham Chapman - Second Yorkshireman; Terry Jones - Third Yorkshireman; Eric Idle - Fourth Yorkshireman; The Scene...
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    Main Causes of the Great Depression

    Murray Rothbard's America's Great Depression
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    Trading and Dating

    I'm a quantitative developer of automated trading systems.
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