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I pull fundamental data for free from yahoo quotes... while using amiquote / amibroker

Hugh was extremely risk averse through 2009 and continues to be. He is very much long treasuries last I've heard. He was also long derivatives that bet that the rates will stay under 2% in the 2s and 5s I believe. This was as of late Nov. 09 The payoff on that bet is very high...

Pitz if its an consolation to you, Google is sending me free $100 Ads almost 4-6 times a year now. I have yet to use them because for my business, getting online sales doesn't suit it. but I wonder if they are just trolling for customers (me a small-time drafting firm in which I am the sole...

Metaphor: If you can afford to be picky about your car, you can afford to be picky about your backtesting. If you can't afford to be picky about your car, don't trade.

In defense of the guy, Taleb has always said that hes a philosopher, not a trader.

http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Other-Las-Vegas/dp/0818403985

Wilbur, don't feel bad, there are people worse off than you who lost $100 million on this P.O.S.

He's managing director at Sprott in Canada now. (Sprott is one of Canada's most successful equity asset management firms) So aside from his ponytail a la Steven Seagal, and his comments about how everything is going to shit, he knows his shit.

Sounds like this trading coach works at GM. "Theres no darn way they can automate this line"

Kass, he has a point. Unfortunately for us all, comparing oneself in a financial endeavor has realistic consequences, assuming you do so without gaming the system.

I had one for a while called streamripper. then they changed the software because of legal issues (people complained that their software would download so much of the content) It does work, but its about $40 or so. Maybe there is a free alternative out there.

He must be using the Stanislavsky method

Forget that the gov't is involved. IPO's are havens for dirty money transactions. Maybe not in the US anymore, but globally they are. And this is true at so many different levels. They have $500 million for a toy, but investing that money for every american to make them healthier...

EMR - You are exactly right. Actually, last night I read Howard Simons article in this months <B>ActiveTrader</b> magazine and it was so good I realized it would probably be the best article I'd read in the next year or two. Howard basically takes this global macro perspective to things that...

Regarding CFD's..exactly... In the US they'll just package sector trades as a basket derivative or an exotic swap on some single equity and only the big guys will trade with size and avoid the tax.

if the reserve made that much... how much did the treasury lose.... obviously a lot more than the FED made.

Is the tax only on profitable trades or all trades? Either way you'll see people trying tax arbitrage strategies - putting the losing end of the trade in the US, while profiting offshore. Mind you they already do that with most trades with the bigger companies...

Trend followers get the biggest edge when other people are short volatility - because at that point, risk is cheap, and TF's can pick up contracts with low risk entries or exits... and with less volatility/slippage on their positions. That is why, implicitly, "the flaw" that TF funds trade...

for an extra $500 you can get a fully funtioning imac... and really, who buys pdf books anyways? Unless its an emergency or the book has no yet been published, ebooks are a pain in the ass. I either download them for free, or I buy a hard copy...

Should be - I don't have a intraday data feed myself, but you can code anything if there is data for it in AMI. EOD data has a value for example ticker, O, H, L, C, vol, Open Interest, etc... your intraday data will have a value perhaps, if it doesn't you can infer the volatility...