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the top UI guys tend to use Macromedia Director for concept demos.

I have a few requests: 1. Keyboard short-cuts don't work well. For instance: I used to be able to use SPACE to transmit. Now, depending on which cell is active, SPACE move the focus on cell to the left or right 2. More quotes: I wouldn't mind paying for another 100 quotes. 3. Better...

same here. Hadn't had one in a long time.

I find MAD money entertaining. From time to time Cramer actually dispenses good insight on how the market "works". But it's difficult to take all the yelling and screaming seriously.

Are you sure that's correct? There is a 30 day grace period, so if you DON"T trade GOOG in January of 2006 you can deduct all losses for 2005. If you trade GOOG before Jan 31 (let's say Jan20), the losses for 2005 will roll into to 2006 (ie you cannot take them in 2005) and used only to adjust...

I'm with Babak on this. I once sat in on a session he gave at a conference. I was embarrassed for him. Secondly, you have to doubt anyone who calls a specific set of moving averages "fractals", and generally misuses mathematical terms and concepts.

You're unfortunately right. Dell support used to be good. Now, if you ever get through to a person, it's someone on the other side of the planet, speaking in broken english, over a poor VoIP line. The last Inspiron I bought (a few month ago) only came with 90 day warrenty. Pretty sad.

Just a few additional thoughts. 1. Some software, Norton AV for instance, will occasionally finish an update/install on the next boot. Same for many of Microsoft's patches. So if you updated your AV or installed a MS patch, that could easily account for it. Note that some AV updates happen...

Same here. I have two Dell 21" LCDs. I strongly recommend that you get DVI connections - it is significantly clearer than analog from my experience. The contracts and crispness is incredible. FWIW, I run both at 1600x1200 natively with DVI.

It's the slow time in August. Take a few weeks vacation. That's the best thing to do, imo.

That's surprising. I was just looking at them as a additional broker yesterday and definitely saw 0.5c per share. Unless there is no software fee, that's pretty high. Fascinating.

My definition of holy grail: a small statistical advantage that can be traded many time, such as on all stocks, for instance. They key is consistency and the ability to exploit the edge numerous times.

You'll have a difficult time making money with that. The system, the way you describe it, is basically a 10 bar MA with a 3,10,16 MACD cross/directional move. This is pretty much as simple as it gets, and those sorts of things rarely work well systematically. My advice, is not to put money...

I get a copy once every few years. It's good to see how commercial systems generally are performing. It also serves as a "sanity" check that I can compare my own systems against. As far as the "articles" in the magazine, it's almost always promo-pieces for one of the features systems. The...

I don't think that's entirely fair. I really wish that IB would acknowledge these sorts of things in real-time, not 30 to 60 minutes late. I have no problems accepting that technology is imperfect. I trade off my own software and have paid for many of my bugs with real $$. In the end, it's...

This is really bad. I'm glad i "gave up" after the first hour of trading. What a mess.

Same here. Fairly problematic since about 5 AM PST.

In the grander scheme of "new features versus stability" I think IB is doing very well. Over the last 3 years, I've had very few problems caused by serious TWS bugs, but I have seen a lot of small "annoying" glitches that easily could have been caught during the QA cycle. I do suspect that...

FWIW, I've found the most of the classical "math" formulations don't works well in practice. I suspect it's because most of the classical statistical math assume normal distribution. Here is what I do: I simply combine the equity curves, or better the trades if you have access to them, and...

Please take what I'm going to say as constructive criticism. The whole style and content looks "naive". You have to plan at least a 8 to 10 page prospectus with historical simulations, graphics, statistical measurements. Statements like "limiting risk", without saying "how" is meaningless...