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Russia is true capitalism. No laws, economy controlled by a few Billionaires, military protecting the economic interests of the Billionaires. No taxes paid, No infrastructure, No social safety nets, rest left to live on the streets.

The vast majority of the posers on this thread have a net worth below 100K. They don't have enough liquidity to take advantage of any market inefficiences they may find. They have no clue what Mr. Altucher is stating, ie for the little guy, day trading is a waste of their most precious...

Mr. Altucher makes a valid point. Anyone who can make a profit daytrading is better off starting a business rather than having spent the time learning how to daytrade. My own experience: spent a decade learning how to daytrade, barely made 6 figures in my best year. If I had spent those 10...

The Greeks will smarten up and follow Iceland and Argentina. Within a mere 2 years of every default, these countries showed rapid economic growth after wiping clean the malaise of high interest debt. Every default With the internet, corrupt politicians who sold out their next 10 generatuions to...

AAPL sells a commodity protected by patents on rounded corners. The trade is short aapl and long samsung and htc. Rapid growth ahead is in developing third world economies, and they can't afford aapl products.

IQ, EQ, tenacity, patience, perseverance, greed and a healthy dose of luck. Not everyone has all the requisite ingredients. I don't see many traders from the late 90's still trading. In the long run I think the failure rate is closer to 99%, given enough time, almost every successful trader...

Your comment is partially true. The primary cause is the Walmartization of American Democracy where Billionaires use their corporations as fronts to control politicians and make law that impoverish their employees. The core problem is the political process itself. To win Primaries the...

These days no one can question what the government or large corporations are doing. There was good reason we spent 100 years breaking up monopolies. But in the last 2 decades we've undone all safety valves and now back to square 1.

There are at least 7 profitable systems posted on this board, all posted before 2003. Search for members dbphoneix, iloveoptions. Aniother was buying or selling if the stock was above or below open at a certain time of day. I lost the thread links when my web browsing pc crashed.

Sweet. What platform are you running? I'm taking C# classes at my local college hoping to learn it well enough to be able to automate with Openquant. Do you find your overnight trade entries more profitable than intraday entries?

As the Argentines have shown, everyone will come running to invest. Capitalism is based on greed, if there is money to be made rest assured a new set if investors will line up to buy newly issued debt. Unless the Greeks fail to overhaul their miserable socialist system where road sweepers make...

It seems almost every day the overnight range is at least twice as large as intraday range. For those who can not move to another timezone, how do you trade this move?

Trading is and will always be the same thing. Picking the correct direction of the move.

Execution on new ideas and services to take money out of users pockets is key to maintain these lofty valuations. On the other hand FB is rolling out the new timeline look which is inferior to the old one, which means it now has its own share of beancounting narcissists calling the shots...

For past 2 decades the warhawks and big oil have been in control of govt policy. Any action that will benefit higher oil prices and more taxpayer spending in the military industrial complex is to be expected.

The problem with the USPS is the same as GM and other union run outfits. Cadillac retirement and health benefit outlays. The govt wants USPS to be run like a private company operating under govt rules forced to provide unprofitable services. If the USPS was operated like Fedex or UPS, vast...

Yes. Serendipty. I'd rather be lucky than good

Amibroker appears to be widely used in backtesting, however it uses it's own AFL code. I'm enrolled in a year long .NET university course and I want to focus only on platforms that use languages similar to C# or VB.NET. My trading has evolved into multiday swing trades and going back to...

I use third party .dll's running on Ninjatrader which I use in some strategies. For other strategies I want to implement, I'm sure I can do the backtest in OQ. At this point, I'm agnostic on platform choice. Traders Studio is another platform I am looking into, it's VB based.

I've decided to automate my strategies in .NET only platforms that use C# or VB.NET. Can't find a online list of comparisions between products. This is what I currently have in mind: Backtesting with Ninjatrader (C#) . Trade Execution with Openquant (C#). Save intraday 1 min data in...