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Don't know where you based that on BlueHorseShoe. I found EXACTLY the opposite to be true and I lived and worked in Hong Kong for two years in a high position. I started just before the handover. The Chinese meddle in small ways, like restricitng Fillipino maids to act as drivers for their...

pretty naive to be running a PC direct to the internet. Have a dedicated firewall / router or dedicated PC before getting to your trading machine. Running two different OS's here, most stuff is native to one OS only. :cool:

I second that, had a 1 month old Sony and the DVD broke down, could not get it fixed. Get an IBM, their keyboards and screens are about the best around. I have have many laptops, both private and from work, Dell, Toshiba, IBM and I like the IBM best. It also has some great driver /...

Assuming that you guys are talking about TFT screens (Samsungs are very good): Over time the backlighting will fade and they'll get dimmer. I have got an IBM laptop that has been running 24 hours a day for 16 months and it is dimmer than when I first got it. Some screens can have their...

On the controversial Woodies website there is a utility to be found by Kiwi that will advance a historical TradeStation 2000i chart (any timeframe) 1 bar at a time. Am unable to check it but there are some other charting packages that are supported as well. If used properly this avoids...

Have lost count of how many laptops I have had, both private and from employers. LArge number have been Toshiba's but the last few have been IBM's. Have been sufficently impressed with the after sales service, in particular their driver / software support and automatic detecting which drivers...

Very good point, actually in some countries this is taken in consideration when making statements about driving habits. Peace:cool:

If there is a large enough number of trades that have been done by following the same mechnical system then a NN can reverse engineer it. Basically this is discovering the rules. NN can be very powerful if used in competent hands. I was in one particular country where they were very...

Don, What is your take on the difference between this case and "the flipper" in the Eurex? That happens during trading hours but imho it is manipulation too and is also creating a false picture of the market. (See the post by Quiet1 on...

charts ? Just the trades and prices for the period are sufficient. Don't need charts. Just plonk the trades next to the prices in a file and then within a short timeframe a neural network will have a workable system. Only thing to figure out would be the timeframe / tickcharts used but that...

Jai, I am also interested in an alternative form of medicine, homeopathy, and from the persons desires and aversions you can often pinpoint the medicines that are required for treatment. This is in other words the same as an expressions I first heard in the Philippines: "Show me your...

very difficult from the statements alone. However.....If the trader is part of a message board, has written some articles in trading magazines etc, any of which gives some insight into the thinking of the trader then it becomes possible if you trade only one system.

Not sure where you are headed with this question. I do not trade from intraday charts, so I have no time frame there. If you're talking about my holding period, alot depends on how confident I am about the direction. Some positions I'll hold for a few days. Most of the time though I'm an...

OldTrader What timeframes would you consider? Tnx

As far as I know they are actually in Malaysia.

LazyBones (NOT lazy at all, seeing how active you are persuing your crusade :D ) Perhaps it may be a suggestion to start compiling some checklist for the un-initiated on how to figure out if the "mentor" they want to follow is a waste of time (or money) or not. One thing I personally...

Don't know if you directed the question at me. I am still a newbie as far as C# goes. I would expect (from other experience) that this would be a "chunk" of data rather than individual data. Further to nitro: I dug into some of my archives. One way of making it "power safe" is to have a...

One of the last projects I worked on had a database that would take 8 days to "restore" / "re-import". But by doing some crazy hardware and software things we changed this to just over two hours.

That is the difficult part, you can "log" changes in another file (in memory) and swap that to (another disk) rapidly. If power goes down then you may "re-apply" the changes. This is if you do not swap the main database out to hard disk very often or if the main database is slow to update the...

1) revise your backup strategy. For me to recover takes less than 15 minutes. I have two sets of backups: One "pristine" that has no data loaded and one "current" with last weekends backup and data loaded (am running 24 hours, use incremental data backups every 12 hours and swap it to another...