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Its the computers trading tonnes of digitally printed money... errr "liquidity"... Everything will be just fine. Don't you even worry. More debt always gets you out of debt.

Cool little debate over on ZeroHedge about predatory algos getting in front of your orders. http://www.zerohedge.com/article/glimpse-predatory-prop-trading-work I've figured out a few ways to "spoof" these bastards when they show up and then hit into them... but its getting harder...

I agree markets are getting a lot faster, fundamentally it's the same. I'll checkout your product...looks interesting.

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I've been hitting big levels for the past 5 years, but it seems to be getting a lot harder recently. I always miss my entries and get slipped huge on my stops. I used to very profitable with this strategy, but it is seems to be getting a lot harder. I know this is a super common strategy, so...

it's a fancy word to sell software :) and do you really think they need you to press the "on" button on a neural network based system which is finding it's own patterns and making it's own trade decisions...of course not. I'd have to look at the specifics of the system you are referring...

do you think someone would be dumb enough to sell you something like that if it actually worked...of course not..the neural nets that do work are being used and kept secret... :)

hey, I'm a quant, 5 years experience on an institutional trading floor in fixed income. also a computer scientist. can program in lotsa languages.

hey there, I'm doing the same kinda thing. I've been in development for about a year now...fully automated pairs trading startegies. Have you done much backtesting? I've done quite a bit of live trading with mixed results

good point traderstatus... first thing I see in your risk management is "average down". I've never seen anyone ever make money in the long run by making your losing positions larger

the problem is you have to think about where money comes from...if the currency is really and truly not in a place the US wants it, it can just "create" more money and quickly correct the market...hence you'd ultimately get destroyed, since your not making the rules and pulling the strings...it...

buying 100 contracts of the T-note on a VERY hockish FOMC statement...I just read it wrong...didn't turn out pretty...about -13k

you know, never caring or understanding the reason why the market is moving in a certain direction is foolish. When you have a reason to get into a trade and you konw the market will react in a certain direction (ie. world news, economic events) you are at a significant advantage to the rest of...

CPI and PPI are not nearly as important measures of inflation as everything thinks. in fact Greenspan even stated that he "doesn't like CPI." It is somewhat hard to now beleive traders should be watching this number closely when the fed officials don't even care about it, and it probably won't...

I agree with andy...the company is mismanaged...and someone is going to come along and take every single trader. People will only putup with this mistreatment for so long before they more on to something better....REFCO used to be good when MAGNUS was running things...he jumped ship and...

Well, after CPI...we went back down to lows in anticipation the fed minutes would be bearish...as it turned out the mintues didn't say anything we didn't already know..and the whole run-up was a result of short covering by the big boys...and of course locals scrambling to get long. I was just...

totally depends on the stock I'd say.

Scale out!!! 10 thousand shares...take 5 thousdand out at your "target" price...hold the rest until you'd decided the move is over for sure. If it goes back down to your initial price, I'd try to get out even. At that point you can always take another position at a few cents price...

-hey...can anyone tell me the importance of block volume..I'm not quite sure how its defined...and what it means other then its just an order for more then 20,000 shares. -Also, what is the significance of a market maker who has a high percentage of his total volume in block volume. -Is...

anyone know what the heck happened to SIRI on Wednesday...up 20 cents on news they are putting their product into BMW?? Couldn't stop shorting it, owch anyone take 100G's long at 2.25?