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Thanks everyone!

It seems Acronis is the preferred imaging software here. What are recommendaions for HDD or CDs to use for the actual backup along with Acronis? Thx!

nononsense, thx fo rshairng. So you use acronix. Do you back up to CDs or to an external HDD or both? Any recommendations for good HDDs or CDs? Thanks again.

No one told you? - "LEVERAGE KILLS"!

3y track record proves NOTHING! It just gives investors "false comfort" which they naiively crave.

Thanks for sharing. Yep, "whipsaws" can be a painful cost of businesss.

It seems hedging is the hardest part of this strategy. Do you have a sense of what your returns woudl be WITHOUT hedging? Is there a fully systematic way of hedging? Or is this hedging heavily discretionary in nature? What %age of profits come from hedging, from the actual options...

Thx for the suggestions. This is more of an accounting/tax platform with the add-on of performance metrics. Sadly, however, it des not uspport futures. They say this is becuae there is no industry wide futures reporting method. And that is true? Futures brokers don't have the best of...

Can anyone recommend a RELIABLE (& hopefully free) PDF to Word converter. There are many on the web, but without testing/buying all of them, it's hard to find a reliable one. The few I tested were not to good. For those looking for good PDF software - I strongly recommend Primo Pdf...

bump, bump!! Anybody???!!

Any more ideas? Or aren't traders concerned with their performance analytics??!!

Excel is tedious and not automated. You'll have to manually input your trades (prone to error and time consuming). There should be some software that should do this for you automatically!?

Anyone aware of software that can peform analytics on your trading history - i.e. generate the kind of performance statistics generated by a system backtester for real-time trading on a walk-forward basis? Thx.

Any one?

What do you guys think about this? ============= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 19, 2005 In the Long Run, Sleep at Home and Invest in the Stock Market By MOTOKO RICH and DAVID LEONHARDT The housing boom of the last five...

Thanks for riskarb for sharing. How do you asess your daily risk exposure? What %age of the 5m capital base do you on average deploy to margin for trades? Are you aware of any funds that trade solely a strategy similar to the one you have in this journal. What is the hidden risk or...

DEVELOP A STRATEGY - THEN PAPER TRADE RETOOL STRATGEY PAPER TRADE SOME MORE THEN COMMENCE REALTIME TRADING WITH VERY SMALL SIZE ON LIQUID/MODERATE VOLATIITY MARKETS I rarely use all caps - so take that as a message! P.S. If you do it right there is NO reason why you should be trading...

Does any one have copies of the current versions of the AIMA Due Diligence questionnaires. There's one for Hedge Funds and one for CTAs. I would like the new versions of both in Word format or at the worst .pdf format. Many thanks in advance.

Yes! Actuallly, the initial poster is better advised to do some paper trading FIRST, develop a strategy, learn about risk before he trades any market!

QM & QG are not markets for beginners. Indeed, one could even argue that even for professionals unless they are well funded , even QM & QG is till too volatile a market. STAY AWAY FROM QM & QG. Learn with YM, ES, ZN, & SF