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I'm in Albany and would enjoy meeting up with some folks.

Yeah, I agree. My thought on this came after a discussion I had with someone who worked for a very successful executive (raised about $4.2 billion for their research facility). I was told that this executive was working on many different strategies at the same time because he didn't know which...

From the first graph, it looks like most ppl were long...

You don't own your home until you own the deed, which is when you pay off the bank. Good topic btw

A possibility... although I had an epiphany the other day on this subject. Why not pursue all of the above? Why not try them all and see which ones work - diversify :)

What types of business models exist for startups in this industry? What path gets you to 'Big Money' the fastest? We were recently advised to focus on R&D (our strength) and not on production systems (let others trade the money). Just looking for some ideas... Here are some possibilities...

What types of business models exist for startups in this industry? We were recently advised to focus on R&D (our strength) and not on production systems (let others trade the money). Here are some possibilities: * Sell/lease trading systems to hedge funds * Trade through a prop firm *...

31, still ticking :)

Frosty's back!!!! Stay with it Frosty :)

So would Spock have been a good trader? He's totally rational, yet the markets are not rational but rather reflect human emotion. Spock never seemed to understand human emotion......

I use a very simple test: If I discovered it X years ago, would I have made money since? Technically, if the most profitable/optimized parameters do not creep or change over time, then I am confident enough to trade the system going forward. I determine this by optimizing over the first...

pacfutures: you said OBV is useful, why? How do you use it if I may ask?

....aside from having Leeson as one of your traders :P We are looking at things that could go wrong in terms of connectivity, poor data feeds, orders not being transacted for some reason... loss of grid utility power... the list goes on. Who here has fully automated systems up and running...

I'm programming 'what if' scenarios into an automated trading bot.. what if we lose power? What if the exchange goes down? What if an order is not executed? What other possible failure modes can you think of?

This idea is not too far fetched. A friend of mine in Iraq says the following: that a lot of US solders are buying the local currency, putting into savings banks and just holding on for long term (they are not allowed to exchange the currency and bring it out of the country). They hope to...

Totally agree here. This is one thing that got me into this, not only looking ath the opportunity for wealth, but the possibilities thereafter... more to the thread, I've found that I can develop 'smoother' risk/reward equity curves with higher frequency trading systems. These are always...

What about the legality of smelting Canadian pennies in the USA? Or USA pennies in Canada?

Looking at all those squiggles on the screen and 'seeing' all the profit potential that there is.

The position at one of the Big Four is open for a short time.. the prop trading can be done anytime. With a big name on your resume, this will help open doors later on.

Dude, this is SO going on my resume!