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Gordon, Just by reading your first post, I can already tell you have a big problem. First, you're calling yourself a "loser" and a "bad freakin' trader" and a host of other names. You need to stop doing that. Subconsciously, you're reaffirming the fact that you do suck. You don't suck...

That is 5 minutes from my house!!! I'm going!

Here's a puzzle for you: What is the last prime number?

Anyone who thinks my quest is stupid, just PM me a scanned copy of your most recent account statement trading ES. Thanks.

I respect where you are coming from -- but let's face it, how many people are really making money trading ES? First of all, you aren't talking stocks -- you can't use the diversity of stocks that stock trading gives you. You are trading an INDEX, which means you are trading one of the most...

You're trading 50 contracts!!! That's $100,000 just for initial maintanence! Jesus -- every two handles for you is my entire trading account. Oh well, it is all relative. At this stage, I couldn't handle seeing $625 each tic movement.

Here is the truth: My trading is improving. The reason why it is improving is because I am learning to deal with my emotions better. However, I am not consistent yet. That, like most everything else in life, takes time. However, my reasoning for doing this is not to try and find some...

So we again come down to: Who's got the fastest connections with lowest transaction costs. Sounds like a reoccuring theme.

I would have to respectfully disagree. Comparing trading and playing sports is pointless. It is a poor analogy. I am quickly learning through trial, error and observation that the reason that there are so many "Michael Jordans" in the trading world is because the best of the best are using...

Edgar Peters, 1991 -- FMH

For me, the issue of trading is very simple. I want to buy something and later sell it at a greater value. Sometimes I will sell it first before I buy it. That is trading, period. The biggest problem I see is knowing when I should be buying when others are selling and then sell it when...

That's why I am trying to understand the application of neural-nets. The most successful application of a program would be one that does not have set code to look for patterns but one that can "learn and rewrite itself" as it observes. The only thing I know that can do this is neural nets.

Of course it has been done -- but what percentage of people are willing to devote years of their lives doing it? Probably less than 1%

Well it would seem that if everyone goes from human trading to computer trading, then it really just matters who has: a) The fastest bandwidth b) Access to the most current quotes c) The better algorythm / program d) The CPU power to run it Let the games begin. Axeman...

The surface of the sun is actually cooler than both the interior and the solar coronal regions (above the photosphere). What is amazing is that some areas of the sun's surface get down to around 5-7.5 thousand degrees.

As far as I know, when you go to any website or location on the web, it will transmit your IP address. The only way around this is to set up some type of proxy system where you are behind another computer that uses it's IP address for the internet instead of yours. At our business, we have...

That is interesting. Well, let's say I ask a computer to find a list of all prime numbers. So I come up with a POS algorithm. I want to distribute this task to 10 computers. Since I have no way of splitting up this algoritm into multiple ones, the best I can come up with is to send a group...

To the "Computer Cluster" crew and other CS majors: Is there a rough equation that will tell me (assuming all of the computers have equal processing power) how much faster than X (X being the processing power of one computer) a collection of Y computers would give me? Example 1X (one...

If Globex gets smashed with orders, a lot of bottlenecks are going to occur down the river. If it is absolutely necessary to have real-time quotes at all times, I suggest some of you look into multiple data-steams and creating a program using "fuzzy type logic" to find out which data-steam is...

Didn't he get into an accident and nearly kill Santa?