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Hi Morgan, I use the daily open and close numbers for calculations.

Just wanted to clarify that - I ran the numbers assuming $1000 per stock to start with. Obviously, the more money you put into it, the easier it is to make back the commissions. I'll put the plain-jane equity buying version of the paper trades up on the website sometime today if I can. -mal

Your point about biased news sources is a good one. In theory, though, it shouldn't really matter how biased the news is for what I'm doing. In a nutshell, I'm simply counting things like words and phrases and then looking for correlations between those and stock prices. The content of the news...

Thanks, promagma - now I just need to figure out what to do with the data... Believe it or not, I haven't even done the paper trading version of using these predictions yet. I think I'll try to run that this weekend and see if I would have made anything if I had started with, say, $1K for...

I don't know if this is the kind of thing you're looking for, but for the last few months I've been looking for correlations between words and phrases in the news and stock prices. You can see what I've got so far, here: http://www.stockprompts.com/ Disclaimer: it's got Google Ads on it...

Would that work even if you only had daily information to rely on? The overall trend might be down for the next 2 weeks, but you know it's going up tomorrow. Since you have a reasonable accurate daily (but only daily) prediction, do you think you could you still make money writing puts and...

Hi All, it's been a while since I've traded any options and even then it was only some tech stocks I was pretty familiar with. I've got some basic questions for the group: If you were told each morning whether a certain stock or index (eg. OEX) price was going to go up or down that day -...