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I cannot comment on how an HR person would view that experience, because HR thinking makes absolutely NO sense to me. But if I were a hiring manager, I would look very favorably on that level of diversity in an applicant's background. This is perhaps even more true in trading.

I believe a lot of traders (or trader wannabees) miss the point of the Turtle story by focusing on the rules of the system. Admittedly it is a solid system with innovative risk control that has held up amazingly well over the years. But the more interesting part of the story is what it has to...

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If you are located in the USA, you cannot offer this service to anyone. If you are offshore, you cannot offer this service to American citizens. There is a mistaken impression that you can do this with fewer than 15 clients and less than $250k under management. It is true that you can...

I don't so much slip into a Holy Grail search as I get sucked in by people who claim they have found it.:eek: There are a few good ideas around, but it takes a lot of experience to recognize them. I get my best results by thinking for myself and testing everything.

I have had similar experiences. At a presentation done by a couple of the "Turtles", the topics people wanted to know about were things like which parameter sets worked best, etc. At a presentation by several "Market Wizards", people kept asking what the markets are going to do next. Both...

My bad... The OP didn't mention "free" in his post, and I missed it in the subject line.

There is a realtime option for Yahoo at extra cost. You can have all the trades with occasional timelag or sampled quotes with minimal lag. But as long as you are using the Internet, you cannot have both. The only way you can get everything with minimal lag is with a dedicated line, which...

I am running two copies of the TWS on the same computer to manage two accounts. I have been getting these disconnects on one account (always the same one) at about the same time of day. It's hard to imagine how the problem could be on my side. IB/TAC suggested I open a ticket to request that...

I seem to recall reading about this somewhere else, that it was based on an exchange policy. I called IB to learn the details, and I was told there is no such rule. I don't need to exceed the 50 ratio, but I would like to know what the rules are, if any, and where to find details. [rwk]

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104460&perpage=6&pagenumber=1

This is an issue I have been thinking about. In my family, we don't talk much about money and how much we have. Most of my net worth is in two accounts at IB. If I died suddenly and unexpectedly, I am not sure anybody would know where my money is. But of course, that's not MY problem...

It sounds like your computer has been hacked. The only thing you can do now is re-install Windows.:p

I don't understand this stuff, so I ran it by another trader who seems to have a handle on it. His feedback was about the same as BlowFish. My system seems to work o.k., so why fix it? [rwk]

A supplement to the 11/2007 issue of "Futures" magazine, entitled Agents of Change, has an article about Richard Dennis that appears to have fairly recent quotes. This is one I found interesting: Dennis says trend following is more difficult today and the struggles of trend followers are not...

I don't think randomness is what Dennis meant by trial and error. He had done enough testing to know that he had an edge and that he would make money through the systematic application of that edge. He meant that making money on any particular trade was not magic. The outcome is determined by...

There is an article in an attendum to the 11/2007 issue of "Futures" mag which quotes Richard Dennis: We trade everything that you can imagine. It would be hard to explain but it is not the traditional trend following that I have been identified with. Some of it is systematic, some of it...

I run two copies of the TWS on a dedicated computer to manage two accounts. I also trade via the API, so I have logs going back to the start of the problem. I get a brief disconnect on one of the accounts (always the same one) at about the same time (9-9:30am ET) most (but not all) days...

I haven't used the browser-based version, but it is my understanding that they both have the same capabilities and performance (except that they will be different releases). [rwk]

I think the reason they recommend standalone for slower connections is the length of time it takes to download the software. Once the software is loaded and running, the two version are virtually identical. I prefer the standalone version because I can control which release I am running. The...