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250,000 daytraders? come on.

Ya I've used it before. It is very clean looking. The concept behind it is neat, and I've traded from it, but when I tried testing ideas like it in backtesting environments, I had no success. So at best, its a discretionary tool and you still are relying on your ability to read the Market.

Read Ken Fishers new book "The Only Three Questions That Count" regarding the correlation of various things. He also brings up other related topics like how hedging currency risk over time is not necessary but I'll save that for you to read. Fisher does a very good job applying his...

Read between the lines- You might die on the toilet seat Mon Apr 9 22:02:00 EDT 2007 Reuters reported that GlaxoSmithKline PLC and its partner Adolor Corporation announced their experimental drug to treat constipation due to opioid painkillers was linked to higher risk of heart attacks and...

I guess if the MM had enough customers placing orders against your order, they might place it. Its just about having both sides of the trade covered..

short covering

read some books by Ruth Roosevelt www.ruthroosevelt.com/

I didn't mean to be misdirecting your relatives so you could trade. Get a trade, a skill and use whatever cash and free time that business can generate for your baby - trading.

These are good posts. Matt I had several years of the same issues. What I did to address this was to start a tech related business that wasnt related to trading. It is giving me some free time to work on my trading systems. And it also makes your relatives and family respect you more because...

Soros jumped into PDL back in June. Wonder if hes out now. X 1000 PDL BIOPHARMA INC COM 69329Y104 $47,344 2,031,930 SH X 1 X -...

Just getting back to you on the "how I became a quant" book. It's excellent so far. both informative and entertaining, no one is talking down at all. Very well written. The writing is so good that it is almost a coffee book for those who like quant trading.

Yup- Taleb discusses this thoroughly in his new book the Black Swan. Richard Bookstaber also mentions it alot in his new book " a demon of our own design" http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Our-Own-Design-Innovation/dp/0471227277

Nafta, Are you offering ideas to be tested systematically ? If so as long as its end of day data, its not much work for me if you have an explicit set of statements if and or... etc to be tested.

new book on Amazon How I became a quant by Barry Schacter. http://www.amazon.com/How-Became-Quant-Insights-Streets/dp/0470050624

Woody Dorsey is pretty thorough on that topic in his book Behavioral Trading. http://www.amazon.com/Behavioral-Trading-Measuring-Confidence-Expectations/dp/1587991640/ref=sr_1_2/105-4199907-0391636?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188178899&sr=1-2 His calls are pretty much spot on when I read the...

"The only three questions that count- investing by knowing what others don't" by Ken Fisher is a new one I'm reading heres the rest of them- they were all decent enough to buy, but some are alot better than others.

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler http://www.lyricsfreak.com/k/kenny+rogers/the+gambler_20077886.html

You can do it in amibroker. use the foreign symbol.

http://www.usfunds.com/funds/worldgold_doc.asp?viewid=Composition This one is more up to date. What happens if you overlay GC futures on the fund?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hl?s=UNWPX