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good to hear from you taowave. I recently had a conversation with a trader/fund manager, he said no matter what day of the week, weekday or weekend, he always wakes up at 5AM and practices yoga and meditation for two(2) hours! I find Qigong very interesting, it has helped me remove some...

hello, just curious if anyone here practices Qigong to help their trading? I took up the practice three months ago and it seems to help greatly with mental focus and concentration during the day. Also a great help with stress reduction that most of us face as traders.

These idiots are rioting because their beloved coach Joe Paterno was fired, the same coach that walked into a locker room where a boy was being raped and he walked rigth out, and kept it quite for the next seven years... we are a country that puts college sports ahead of education and good...

good posts lucias and picaso. I use suri's CMI(combined mkt internals) and look for divergences. I don't find looking at raw TICK data useful. I have looked at this quite a bit, NYSE TICK I find the best, even better than NYSE Cumulative TICK... CMI is only for tradestation, but you may...

unfortunatly no easy way to fix this other than o/h/l/c. If you like to google 'gapless charts'. people have posted similar for ninja. the fix is a big improvement as compared to not accounting for the gap. Here is the fix for tradestation users. [The opening “gap” is recorded for the...

Thank you all for your replies. HMM is hard for a non-math major like myself to understand, let alone implement. but it is good food for thought to advance my understanding of tools that can be used in pattern recognition. Amazon has a few books on HMM, this one comes with some...

Is anyone here familiar with the hidden markov model? I need help in understanding it, how would it apply to trading? Could someone please give me an example. Thanks. A (non-trading) example Consider two friends, Alice and Bob, who live far apart from each other and who talk together...

not to worry about the negative replies, its a hard lesson I learned here, best just to ignore them. I am thinking about the same issues as you are, about winning and losing streaks or strings. speaking for myself, the systems I trade have a 65% probability of winners. So I have long...

interesting thread. old time it is not clear if you are a 100% mechanical systems trader or a discretionary trader following fixed setups? I always trade at least two (2) systems that are negatively correlated. so if one is heading south towards dd land, the other equity curve hopefully is...

I wonder if warren buffet was aware of this when he 'invested' 5 billion in BofA Its suit against Bank of America focuses on $58 billion in residential mortgage-backed securities Fannie and Freddie purchased. That includes $6 billion purchased from Bank of America, $27 billion purchased from...

i agree with edgehunter. take a closer look at the account agreementm, take them to arbitration. most likely you will get compensated.

http://www.dlalabroker.com/english/Pages/home.aspx You need an investor number (NIN number) which can only be acquired from the DSM (Doha Securities Market/Grand Hamad street), you take that and then go open an account with a brokerage firm.

so I am asking if the mkt bouncing of trendlines is causal or a matter of correlation. causal means that event a causes event b correlation simply means that there is a reciprocal relationship between the two.

whats on you mind super bill?

I trade the SP500 emini futures, so many times during the day the mkt will come rigth up to a trendline and bounce off, or come up to a S/R and bounce off? Does the mkt have a memory? with 70% of the volume coming from algorithmic trading and 30% human traders. I mean how does this...

nearly what ever cash data is available for SPY is also available for IWM. As you mentioned cash data is keyed off Russell 2000(RL). For example, for data provider Tradestation: $TICKRL - tick russell $ADVRL - advancing issues russell may I ask how do use the cash data to trade the ETF's?

hello proflogic, you wrote some great posts about Al Brooks and price action trading. Just curious, what makes you think that al brooks is a savant? i have thought about this as well, he has some unusual powers of observation. I think his genius also lies in being a minimalist, he strips...

Van Tharp, the famous trading coach tells a great story. He once worked with a trader who was a member of CBOT. This trader would always make $200,000 a year. Anything above that he would find a way to give back. year after year he was stuck with this 200k profit ceiling. During their work...

This is probably the best book I have ever read on trading. but it has nothing to do with trading. The author of 'The House Advantage' Jeffery Ma is one of the original members of the MIT blackjack team. The main character in the movie 21. I think sports betting can teach us more about...

This was given to me by a friend. Unfortunatly I had trouble staying awake while reading it. but I am told it is a must read for the 'serious' quant trader. Most HFT firms like to hand out copies to new hires. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners [Hardcover] Larry...