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Survive in terms of... like... "Rabo Bell"? Dutchuahua... Chocolate (Cocoa) Bean Burrito... Chocolate Gordita... Chocolate Chalupas... Dutchos Bell Grande... Yummy!!!

Oh... thank Heave----n!!!

Is this your idea of DoD attacks to ET?

Who said banks would merge with other banks? There's always a possibility that the banks can merge with other businesses like Subway, Quiznos, Taco Bell, McDonalds, etc. etc. We're already seeing plenty of banks in supermarkets... why not fast food stops. I'd love to see BoA to be like...

I read the whole thread back and I don't see much I can add. Everything is pretty much on the people doing the actual job so... MAGNA, please close this thread. Merry Christmas!!!!

No one can. The basic premises of any model or trade is "If the current condition sustains... ... the prices can move up to xxxxx. ... the trend will continue. ... the market will reverse. ... the system will make $xxxx. ... the system will return $xxxx. etc. etc. The...

HRRRMMMM.... The example you gave is a tough call... What I'm thinking is end up in being ironic if you take snippets of it but... 1. The rational process you provided is largely based on experience. It's actually a direct dilemma for discretionary traders who try to develop models...

Trust is a weird thing. It's more on the person interpretting than the person actually saying it. Sort of like believing. "Believe me... etc. etc. etc." It's more about whether you agree or not to the idea the person is speaking about. The typical application is Warm Reading 101. You...

Well... the article is kinda naive... Doesn't reflect what "a lot of people" are thinking. What all the new kids will be doing is developing models with added dataset of this crash. Quants basically suck at exposing undetermined risk. All they will do is determine the new set of risks...

This recent financial collapse actually degraded the value of Quants. It's a bit unfortunate for you but fortunate for some. The trend seems to be that, the gaps are starting fill between an experienced system trader and a Ph.D. quant. Kinda like, the merge between Street Smart and Book...

So with the first step, you find how your models are inter-related. I usually move into a different process by categorizing each of affecting components and creating a sub-group of models. That's a different process so I'll end the discussion here. Moving on... I finally get into slipping...

It'll be tough... Learning all the Broker and Datafeed APIs... The list will keep on: Growing, growing and growing... and... once some specification changes: You get bugged by people to update them... bugging and bugging and bugging you... Just my 2 cents

I trade my own account now but... It's true... I'm only a cog... I'M so freagin' dumb!!!!

Wow!!! This is getting a bit too technically philosophical for me... Though, I like philosophy books. Though, it's kept as a brain excercise. I don't see it directly affecting how I trade, indirectly... maybe.

I had a time, when my trade income was around $100,000. 30% of it went to paying for equipment and trading services. I had bills to pay on top of that. You're talking too much from your own situation. It's easy to tell people to be frugal when you are making a lot more... Seriously...

Risk Neutral? They got caught up by CDOs.

This is off-topic, "most" of the guys on Market Wizard has busted or quit trading. Interesting thing is they all quit when Electronic Trading started taking over futures market and decimalization. This is only what I've heard... but... those 2 events took away their edges and quit trading by...

Don't want to get all philosophical but is winning more losing an innate human character(-istic)? Last thing I want is get into Platonic Virtue debate but I'm a bit lost with your post. Aren't trades supposed to be a result of the trades people take? Those basis comes from a reaction of the...

People do crazy things when they don't what the hell their doing. I think that those extreme "feels" come from lack of clarity. In most cases, I think it comes from people fearing that they might lose. If the SCARED trader knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be AFRAID of taking a...

Hrrrrmmm... Apologize. I can't seem to understand. (I ain't that smart after all) Care to elaborate?