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[Picture Kramer pounding the table] Really? You eat what your metabolism dictates, you learn to eat the right amounts. If your amount is really small because of your metabolism you eat nutrient dense foods.. Genetics, metabolism, psychology... it's bullshit. The medical profession is...

what time frame? what is your programming skill? I had Tradestation but it was sort of not satisfying to use their autotrading. IB with some charting third party software looked better so I got Multicharts but they are not quite ready for prime time and they cloned Tradestation too much for my...

I caught the red eye out of silicon valley heading to Burbank once, my buddy was riding, we had 3 seats to choose from at first so I took the window and my buddy had the isle.. a Mexican looking guy comes aboard and is looking for his seat, this guy is the picture of the "cross a bull with a...

I hope you just got a paycheck, the dang YM just coughed up 135 points.. pretty easy money considering it's fed speak day..

Paychecks are good, careers are so-so

I've read that cigarette smokers, on the whole, actually collect less in overall benefits because they croak and don't collect as much social security. Doctors don't prescribe chemo for older smokers very much. Another thing I read, for gluttons[I can say anything I want about fat people, it's...

I'm just suggesting a workaround for somebody that was going to use the software.

Maybe you can have a separate account for each strategy?

Go read academic papers, with citations.. people that do that are great traders!! You will be among your peers...

Is there a link to the announcement? I did not get an email from IB. Tradestation requires a lot more than IB did btw, I think it was nearly double.

I really have suspected this for a long time. I started to view many, many posts in the trading and economics sections as either political attacks or as being from people that are subscribing to ideas that are formed out of politics. The trend of posts seems to follow the public opinion polls...

There are other free sources, Yahoo used to be free, maybe it still is, Hquotes.com has some software for getting quotes, OpenTick is very inexpensive. Your broker is really slow in updating those daily values btw.

Planning and designing?? Get NinjaTrader, use the wizard... it's incredibly flexible after that, you can edit the C# code, it's compiled, you can't make anything that is significantly faster. The trading rules are 99% of the game, the software is almost nothing once you find a package that does...

I have always felt that lots of traders are way too risk averse. I see threads touting how the "big smart guys" are looking at their Sharpe ratio, etc. and other threads about the "Great Hedge Fund Meltdown" and how it is going to take out the economies of the world. You would think that the...

You can relate Kelly to risk however. I found an assertion [unproven by the author or myself at this point] that at one kelly size you have a 1/3 chance of going to half your account before doubling, at half Kelly you have 1/9, etc. Maybe the comfort zone is at about 1/4 Kelly, 1/27 chance of...

Builders always do that. I saw projects start in other housing downturns and one, I was there by pure happenstance, burned up while the owner stood there with a sheepish grin, not kidding for a minute here. The banks, the builders.... not the smartest money by a long shot. The Realtors aren't...

If it keeps on like it is it will cross the 50 week average very soon and meet the 200 week average at 1275 -1300ish area... highly likely the descent will slow before that though.

Kelly's math is for the fastest accumulation over time and it does not take into account risk of ruin. Most advice seems to center on risking 2% of capital per trade as a rule of thumb. I was looking into calculation of risk of ruin and came across a formula that applied to a 1:1 reward/risk...

I have Latina women that are better looking serving up burgers here and I'm in a small town... of course, discussing the markets is out with them, they don't know what they are...

So... in your mind Cramer represents the entire US population? Statistically speaking, you need a larger sample. My woman won't allow me to yell and spit on her so I guess, statistically speaking, that would mean that only half the women in the US will put up with such behavior. Further, I...