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Thank you, hausse

Also curious about life in Dubai for an independent trader/fund manager - quality of life, recreation, entertainment, culture, customs, infrastructure, etc.

Hausse, thanks for sharing your insights. How do you calculate DD, on and EOD basis or EOM basis. I notice most CTAs, hedgefunds calculate DDs using month-end numbers. Is this what you do - or do you calculate it using EOD numbers?

Typical comment from the typical dumb American/Westerner. Everyone from the Middle East is a terrorist or money launderer. Everyone from Nigeria is a fruadster Everyone from Afirca is poor, hungry and unrefined. Everyone from Mexico is an illegal immigrant. So sad.....the...

I visit Bermuda next week - the week of June 9 and would love to meet any Elite Trader members who live on the island. If there's mutual interest in meeting, please send me a Private Message. Thank you.

I'm excited about futures on ETFs but the volume is anaemic. A few questions for OneChicago Apart from IB what other platforms or FCMS grant access to the product. What are your plans regarding these two issues. Can you provide a list of brokers apart from IB where one can...

I'm excited about futures on ETFs but the volume is anaemic. A few questions for OneChicago Apart from IB what other platforms or FCMS grant access to the product. What are your plans regarding these two issues. Can you provide a list of brokers apart from IB where one can trade...

I know for certain that the CPU at 100% is due to my research/backtesting platfrm. At times Firefox & Internet Explorer cause CPU spikes, but the main culrpit is the research platform. The software provider acknowledges the problem and recommends I get a faster machine/dual-core machine

Thanks gnome. 1. "ff" means following 2. Yes heavy duty and intense computing are subjective phrases. To be precise I constantly have my CPU usage at 100% (even right now). Anytime I am running my research/backtesting platform my CPU usage goes up to 100% and using any other software...

Thanks gnome for all your assitance on computer tpics here on ET. What would you recommend for the ff: 1. Heavy Duty Trading/Charting: 2-3 trading platforms running at once 2. Intense Computing: a. MS Outlook (2-3 gb .PSTFILE) b. Internrt Explorer and/or Firefox (with...

What is a better measure of liquidity in futures contracts - average daily trade volume or open interest and why?

Good point, atticus. Thank you.

Of course there is no standard answer....so let's assume the time is whatever time you expect liquidity to be at its peak. Looking forward to your answers....

Thanks for sharing what you know.

Good point, I'm sorry I forgot to specify. Trading Venue: Institutional platforms: EBS/REUTERS, UBS, CREDIT SUISSE in house platforms, etc Looking forward to your thoughts

Hello friends, I am trying to estimate liquidity/scalability for a FX trading startegy. Two questions: 1. What would you estimate as the maximum size one could move in the ff pairs with minimal slippage? 2. What size would you estimate as the max size to be held as a position trade...

Atticus, why do you doubt it will take off - they seem well designed and seem to address the issues that would make traders wary of them. Additionally, their simplicity should lead to broad usage by pros and non-pros. So why do you think the product will fail?? Just curious....

In TradersStudio, you can create/design, backtest and on an ongoing base engage in live "Trade Management". I trade daily using a similar approach and I can keep track of my trades and their performance using TraderStudio. I can also use TradersStudio to ensure that I place the accurate...

What's the liquidity on these FROs. I can't get any volume/liquidity data from the AMEX website? Has anyone traded these FROs? If there's liquidity, this seems to be a promising product.

Thanks bespoke for the response. Great trading!