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Not always, the amount you receive is proportial to the amount you paid in. I actually worked a real job and paid SS tax for 20 quarters, so yeah I have considered going for the minimum 40 quarters. I wouldn't get much, but at least I could probably get back what I paid in (depending on how long...

Possibly, I verified a lot of it with my own research, not from a tax pro but from other sources on the internet. But as always, don't be like me and try to do your own taxes, consult a pro :). There is actually a presentation that goes with the slides that I should have posted...

Yes there are benefits to an entity (retirement plan, deduct health insurance) ... but it didn't seem worth it to me because you are paying 15% self employment tax that is normally avoided. I am young and would rather not pay into social security. I realize that for an older person who is closer...

Is it just me but there is a lot of bad information being given here? First the confusion between trader status and mark-to-market, it is not the same thing. Second, the only way you can have a retirement plan is to have earned income, which means incorporation or some kind of entity and pay...

I don't have the data. I am a short term trader. Only recently, I am taking an interest in the long term :)

You're right I don't see the significance of 01SEP09 .... so are you going to tell us or what?

Did you just copy the program files? It seems like a DLL isn't registered properly. Try uninstall and reinstall Sterling, and make sure you have the right flavor for your server 32 or 64 bit :)

3 point pullback in the ES, this is it.

Slow market ... looks like it will take forever to play out, either way.

This is often the case with HFT trying to sniff out the supply and demand .... Don't forget that on all but the most liquid stocks, size matters .... your game might work well for a 100 share order but be a loser with 500 shares. My strategy has buy and sell levels and I have done of a lot of...

I said signal because I think this is the kind of stuff they do in signal processing. I want to subtract signal A from signal B but I'm not sure how much of signal A exists in signal B. The inverse of signal A may even exist in signal B. In any case, I want see signal B with any influences from...

But then again, you need multiplier for B .... if A and B were the inverse of each other, a multiplier of -1 would be perfect. A - (B * -1) would equal zero giving a zero noise component .... perfect. Sorry I am rambling ..... I am clinically insane. Kind of like the guy from Pi but not even...

I think I understand this. And I just realized .... Series A is ALREADY subtracted from it's ordinary least squares regression and then divided by it's standard deviation. Same with Series B. So maybe I just need to take the difference (subtract) .... no multiplier needed. And this...

Regardless if it is strong or weak correlation, I want to break B into two components. One component follows A and the other component represents the "noise".

To detrend each series, I subtracted the linear regression.

Ok I know there are some math gurus on ET .... I have two time series, Series A and Series B. Series B is somewhat correlated to Series A. I want to find the signal from Series B less any influence from Series A. I already normalized each series - I detrended (I don't care about difference in...

That is just fine, unless you do heavy backtesting, or are streaming real time data for 500 symbols.

+1 ...... Would create (hundereds of thousands? millions?) of jobs overnight.

I look at the real time SPY price from BATS, dunno if that would work for you. http://www.batstrading.com/book/SPY

It's funny every time.