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Nope. That's not it. I'm sure that if you research about static newsfeed, you realize something similar to what I found out. But in my opinion, don't listen or ask me advice. I would wait for acrary's post on this matter. Again... I am not an expert on news algos...

Well, here's a link for an explanation of AIS for the rest of us: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Immune_System :( Well, it's another entry in my "To-Do List" So much to do... so little time...

In terms of news algo: I'm not an expert but it's been around for a while. Because most of the Reuters and Bloomberg news txts have a simple txt template for news, I tried developing a system out of it. Obviously, the market reacts to a similar news differently. The impact of the news...

Yes. Guys running bank's internal hedge funds (some larger than public funds) read and post. Mostly read.

Well, let's say I randomly enter a trade... Profit = Predicted the market. Loss = Not in the zone. That's a bit harsh so... I enter a trade with a system... Profit = The system predicted the market. Loss = Part of the statistics. ... Well... I enter a trade via discretion...

LOL... A while back, I was talking about Maradona with a Brazilian friend and he told me, "Maradona should have been a Brazillian" ... That makes me smirk a little. But I can confirm that Brazillians have a thing with Argentina, everytime we talk about soccer. Everyone seems to have...

There's also a thing called curve-fitting your equity curve. watch out.

How about Computer Science?

Offer to pay double for the security deposit. This usually does the job.

An obvious one would be speed. For example... Monte Carlo. Analyzing on a portfolio level. Optimization. Scanner.

You wouldn't trade a high frequency trading model on massive equity/options portfolio on EL/WL with VB execution would you? Again, it really depends on the needs of the trader. Some traders don't need computers, some need a cluster. But... one thought of mind is the system you develop is...

Agree.

Rather depends on style of trading. As with any 3rd party software, as long as you don't deal with Tick or Ask/Bid data, or automated trading it's fine. Eventually, you have to grow out of it and learn some programming like Java or C++.

Brazil. Why Germany?

If it makes money. It's all good.

Nice point. :) If someone has figured it out, please PM me. I'll overlay Gann Analysis on top of it.

Bwahahahahaha!!! Funniest thread of the week.

Well... Mexico has a strong squad. They always cause some drama in the competition and especially with Germany. Being in Germany this year, I think they're up to something. Especially, they always... ALWAYS... play a very rough match... Fouling, injuring, geez... they play really rough...

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