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Peter Schiff is a great speaker and a wide reaching thinker. I own his books. He's a great starting point for an investor / trader. However, he doesn't understand correlation, nor global macro liquidity distortions like other people out there do. Example: He was long emerging Markets...

Sharpe doesn't care about your accumulative returns. It will penalize it if its very high too. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/sharpe_ratio.asp Sharpe Ratio for you = (Average Annual Return - Average Annual risk free rate)/Stdev of returns.

easier to play EURJPY imo.

x. How much time/testing is necessary to provide a solid population of data? 2-3 different markets- trending up/down, down, sideways... I'd say 1000 different trades depending on how often it trades higher the frequency, the more trades req'd. x. What kind of results are considered...

Pervert - sykes is that you?

some simple things turn to shit in the hands of a big employer.... Me - gmail - corporate - encrypted outlook with no decent search ability Trading system- yours is an adaptable collection of scripts... theirs is a monolithic system.. youll need permission for every new type of trade.. you...

Cheaper to hire a terrorist than to pay the rent?

livevol, can you make sense of the current options game in Medivation? MDVN I know fundamentally, the drug trial is garbage and the technology is crap too IMHO, but is there any odd behaviour aside from the very expensive Calls and Puts that you can detect in the next months option series...

Isn't the US arming Taiwan?

I guess its common sense... which is not in most options books.

Can anyone give a good recommendation for a decent book on the processes of options trading like the question the poster has given?

Sounds scary- they are all debasing each other at once then, no?

Seems to be the trend amongst a bunch of "start-ups" good and bad lately... They get a bunch of people to work for free by trading their results or commissions in sales businesses, and I think in some cases this is just meant to fool outside mom & pop investors that they are investing in a...

He's probably posting as we speak on a new theory of tax futures whereby you can trade in and out of your tax obligations via the futures Markets, but he'll be complaining that the tax market as it currently is, is illiquid and non-transparent.

Wasn't this same "job" posted on Trade2Win like last year? The whole board chewed them up & spit them out if I recall....

Seems this is going short only?

rj, can you profitably short stocks? (maybe you need to be given the secular bear Market) What about Bonds / CDS ? - SAC = Steve Cohen's Hedge Fund- (they let go most of the people in their London offices last year) What about Brevan Howard (they are real pricks I here, but they make...

dark pools, algorithmic trading between firms...

Ya I can see that; US creates a fictitious sale that credits the UK, thereby making it appear like the UK actually purchased these bonds, when in actuality its an IOU (or worse, pure money printing)

Reteurs and other providers now have real time text search. Last I heard it costs $100k.