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    Still confused, which language i should start learn to design my ATS?

    I'd say use amibroker, it is good to start with. Then when things are all tested, move to a real-time trading environment that can interface with broker API. Getting things done is more of an issue than dealing with perceived worries about IP.
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    Teachers Unions & poor education in America

    They should force teachers to become entrepreneurs.... Eat what you kill... Skew the rewards to those who generate the most improvement... In Canada, particularly - School Boards in Ontario will pay you over $80,000 to teach English after 8 yrs experience and a few night courses (can be...
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    11 Countries At Risk of Becoming The Next Egypt

    Why isn't the US on that list??!??
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    Why do Americans go to expensive lib art schools?

    I think the proper word you are grasping for here is "rite of passage". In the historic upper middle class homes, university / college was a rite of passage. Nowadays ones rite of passage is any number of things, none of which involve reading Shakespeare. The pace of the increased cost...
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    movies on trading

    This one is not well known, but good. <b>The Bank</b>: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241223/ I also agree - 25th hour is up there with Ed Norton's performance in American History X. Ann
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    Hedge stocks with a prop

    As around for a place you can wash trade...
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    Egypt will blow up did you see brian williams face he is in shock..

    Introducing the "MU- BARARK OBAMA!"
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    any good websites with interviews of successful traders

    I imagine that listening to them while you trade might cause some side-effects...
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    why fighting deflation is a waste of money

    Bernanke would never let deflation happen beyond what is required to keep defaults and bankruptcies in control (i.e via low rates) The shadow banking system would collapse with sustained periods of deflation.... Time to manipulate the yield curve...
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    What qualification to manage money?

    The truth is most Market punters who "trade" for a living are really just managing money for a living.... making 1-4% on the management fee, then some 20-40% of the trading profits (a lot of times these profits don't exist and if they do people are seduced by low volatility, forgetting that the...
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    Trader Racks Up a Second Epic Gain

    There is an interesting transaction Paulson did with Detour Gold... kinda weird too.
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    Risk management software for options trading

    Which broker do you have to be with to use obsidian? Seems like the product is institutional only?
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    Fake US bonds $20 billion in Italy

    Maybe they need to manufacture fake ones to cancel out all the failures to deliver.....
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    What a healthy growing economy looks like

    In Niagara Falls, Canada the <b>Coach</b> store has had lineups outside of the store everyday from 10-9 weekdays and 10-6 on weekends for at least a year... The wait time appears to be 15-30 minutes on average, and 45min to 2 hrs on weekends and holidays I've seen it firsthand. Its the only...
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    Books that have significantly influenced your trading perspective

    http://www.amazon.com/Decision-Traps-Barriers-Decision-Making-Overcome/dp/0671726099 This comes by way of reading the mercenary trader blog.... it was a very good piece of advice from his blog to read this book. Also: Steven Drobny's the invisible hands -...
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    Anyone Had this Problem with Extended Display?

    I do 3d graphics with a laptop and 23" monitor. I would suggest on most applications that you shut the laptop screen down when working... Ideally use an external keyboard too. The 23" monitor needs a VGA monitor cable connection to have a decent picture. HDMI will occasionally screw up the...
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    Recommend a good book on value investing and bond investing

    http://www.amazon.com/Damodaran-Valuation-Security-Investment-Corporate/dp/0471751219/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_3 http://www.amazon.com/Bond-Market-Trading-Risk-Management/dp/1556232896/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295919788&sr=1-2 Both are worth owning physical copies...
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    Tell me something new

    You could have a delivery tax... if you don't take delivery, you pay the tax of the person who takes delivery .. and if you are a hedger you get to right off the delivery taxes you pay as part of your cost of doing business. It reigns in speculators immediately, but doesn't disturb the...
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    MannKind (MNKD) -44%

    Blame it on mankind :)
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    how to do judge the degree of data-mining/over-fitting in a strategy?

    You can tell if a system is overoptimized by looking at the type of trading rule involved in the system. If the system is optimized to one <B>specific value</b>, then likely the system is overoptimized. If you have complex queries generated binary results 0 or 1, then look at the queries...
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