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A history buff friend of mine told me that lots of sentences in medieval England read "turned over to the inn keeper". In those days the inn keeper could do whatever would please the crowd I guess... dang, drinking had a lot more dimension and depth in those days, nowadays... boring by...

What a master of the put-on that guy is..

I had the same trouble with my bicycle combo lock, wound up walking home in the middle of the night.. better than getting hit by a car while on the bicycle probably, on foot you can do that last minute dodge thing and have a fighting chance at least...

Tim, you made money in a great small cap run-up. Time to move on to something else besides being an OTC schlocker.

Rcan went straight to ignore a while back.. he seemed like bullshit to me and now people figured him out.. too cool.

I hit the wall too many times with backtesting. A few weeks ago I gave it up for live trading. The thing about not knowing what is going on inside a bar, which extreme came first, has tripped me up too often. The software people guide you in the direction of backtesting on bars of data. That way...

I remember when I was in High School. I was taunted, harrassed, bullied and abused, and that was before I had breakfast and left the house even. I thought all my life would be like that but lo and behold.... so far it was.

Stocks are just too complicated. The simple answer is to trade the futures. In Frosty's thread it came to light that you can game the IB simulated account. I wouldn't use that for much.

If the distributions of the average wins and losses is tight it should not be a big problem, even if they are maybe not so tight really. Many traders use fixed targets and exits, how far can the frigging averages deviate under those conditions? Humans tend to go wrong by assuming that the...

Ann Coulter is smart, she's an attorney, but I thought that article was weak coming from her.

Who is going to adopt mistreated Pit Bulls? The dog fight people aren't going to go and get them, too high profile, people in their right minds are not going to take them home to play with their kids. This Pit Bull thing is nuts. I find all sorts of "we love pit bull" sites, what is up with...

I have not watched major media for political info since the huge, huge, anti abortion rally in DC, maybe it was 20 years ago, with an estimated 900,000 to 1,000,000 people... that was not covered in any major media!! I had to sit through stories on demonstrations with as little as 2-25 people...

I noticed data missing from intraday Ninja charts if I close the chart window and reopen it with OpenTick as the provider. I don't think I would have this problem with any other provider. IB is my broker but they don't provide backfill for volume bars. What exactly is happening with your...

kut2, thanks for the nicely informative thread.

What are the liklelihoods of gaining or losing when the exchange goes away suddenly... If you are daytrading and happen to be flat, fine, take a break.. if you are not flat there might be a 50% chance the market moves against you so essentially it should average itself out over time really and...

People use the confirming tick rule. They don't get in until their signal is good for two ticks in a row.. very simple solution. Filtering bad ticks out of an indicator is similar, you have to write the tick filter into the indicator. Those solutions are much better than preprocessing data and...

There is zero risk of ruin as long as you can characterize your system properly. If you use hard stops and goals with a known reward/risk at the entry of every trade you need to watch the win%. If you exit on TA then you have to track the win% and the reward/risk.

where will it open? the last tick I have on the screen [YM] is 13295.

Wow, order type could affect the panic situation.. I'm learning a little here..

I really don't know, maybe there is a half-hedge strategy :)