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Some time ago, Don Bright challenged chatroom operators, websites, and other net 'gurus' to let him review their picks with the objective of quantifying their results and seeing if they were worth their salt. Its been around 3 months now since a few brave souls took your challenge, so whats...

trdrmac: www.cross-currents.net or www.hdbrous.com (under research) Jim: you are absolutely right, the question now then is, how low is low enough for a reversal?

thanks for the repost, I was talking to an old trader a few weeks ago and he told me that stocks are like fish, you cut off the ends and just eat the middle. Don´t try to eat the whole thing!

out of curiousity which chat room is that?

.....to IB(def) and ET (Baron) !

Just wanted to clear this up: IB charges 1 cent for the first 500 shares (inclusive) and then half a cent for each share above that. This as you pointed out, includes all ECN fees, etc. Plus they have a $1 minimum per trade.

Has anyone read this off realtick´s website? http://www.realtick.com/news/pdf_releases/MS.net2_02.pdf "The Enhanced toolkit will also allow Townsend´s broker/dealers and indivdual investors and traders to develop their own financial applications, such as scanning filters and analytical...

I was going to suggest www.shortinterest.com but apparently they have kicked the can. Too bad, they were a good resource.

It is correct that the VIX was introduced in 1993, but we have "back-calculated" the index in the same way it is calculated now. Thank you. Genna Freeberg Internet Marketing Chicago Board Options Exchange trdrmac: I think TC2000 has all sorts of alternative indices including...

kind of off topic but just wanted to second that. Todd Harrison's journal was legendary. [sigh]

My only intention in using such an analog was to point out how outlandish Biomech's assumptions are. Obviously telling him 'look this is not a good idea' would not have cut it since others have told him as much (which he admits in his original post). I thought that using an over the top...

Let me ask you this, if I came to you and I said this: I´ve never performed surgery, but over the years I´ve applied and removed many Band-Aids to friends and even 'fed a fever' once. I´ve spent the last few months reading and studying all the biology and medical books I can find with...

On the upper right hand corner of your screen you´ll see 'Search' I used it to get this in less than 1 minute (please keep this in mind for future reference): http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=615&highlight=indigo and to answer your question: apparently not

doh! :D I should´ve seen that link ...which leaves a new question, how the heck did they extrapolate VIX data all the way back to 1986? unless they are wrong and it wasn´t introduced in 1993. I´ll e-mail them and see if they reply with an answer.

Armaniman, just wondering how it is possible for you to have VIX data all the way back to 1986 when the CBOE introduced the index in 1993 (check out this web address to see what I mean: http://www.cboe.com/MktData/vix.asp#vix ) :confused:

My bad. I hadn´t taken a look at SMH for a while and I thought it was trading with little volume (half a M). Obviously things have changed. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! :)

SMH are rather illiquid (unless you are swing trading or holding for medium/long term, I wouldn´t recommend it as a trading vehicle)

other things you have to be aware of: 1]trading correlated markets or securities 2]the corollory being that you need to consider the possibility that all or most of your stops are triggered. how much damage would that do to the portfolio? what if (due to execution or technical reasons)...

I just read the Arvedlund piece in Barron´s and I´m baffled. This guy [Harindra de Silva] she interviews for the column says that the´historical avg is 17%` for the VIX Where does he get this? I take a look at the $VIX for as long as it has existed and can only find 4 instances where it...

I joined traderalliance for a few days last summer. It wasn't bad on the whole. I didn't agree with a lot of 'triggers' called by Gold but hey, that's what makes a market, different trading styles. On the minus, it was full of newbies that were trading datek accounts and had absolutely no...