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Well, that's what he claims to have done in his books, and his funds showed an externally audited average 30%+ annual trading record while he was running them.... is all that a big lie, did he pay off hundreds of people at the auditors just so he could rake in management fees?

Maybe one or the other of you lost money. Maybe you made money. Doesn't matter, since we are all on a freaking Internet forum and there's no way to verify either way. So, can we get back to talking about the EURUSD itself rather than pointless trolling about whether someone is or is not full...

Thanks for the interesting replies. People are saying, generally, don't worry about finding fundamental explanations for the market. If you read e.g. "The Alchemy of Finance" by George Soros, he says things like, "I thought the pound was overvalued because of X, Y, and Z, so I shorted it and...

Thank you, this is the kind of information I was looking for. Makes sense.

This goes to the heart of the matter... let's assume for the sake of discussion that my fundamental analysis is absolutely 100% correct, and the Euro "should" be trading at 1.20. How on earth would knowing this do me any good? As everyone loves to repeat, "The market can stay irrational...

Yep, it would be highly ridiculous in any case to see the current strengthening in the face of almost universally negative fundamentals. We're not standing around a roulette table looking at random numbers. There are semi-understandable factors driving currency movements. Granted, I'm...

Well, yes, it does matter... I'm far from perfect... maybe there is some big news element that I missed, in which case I would trade differently.

- Portugal announces last year's budget deficit was much larger than they thought. - They are expected to request a bailout at any time. - Ireland says they will need another €24 billion to stabilize their banks - Their debt insurance and yields are up - "Late Wednesday, a plan...

Very interesting, thanks. We'll see..

Laissez, could you elaborate a little on that?

Re: USD is worse off -- while I don't think USD is in great shape, at least it's not in imminent danger of political collapse, nor does anyone seriously suggest that any US state is close to bankruptcy (California notwithstanding.) Plus, it's not like EUR is being sold off hard against...

Anti-Euro events this week: - The govt of Portugal collapsed after austerity measures were rejected - downgraded to BBB - French and German relations, already strained, getting worse over Libya (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,752992,00.html) Pro-Euro events: - EU...

Mainly, Clojure is a Lisp dialect, so there is no distinction between code and data. It has macros. Lisp macros are only distantly related to simple template-substitution C-style macros. Lisp macros can include any arbitrary code you like. Using this feature, you can easily write programs...

That's not the point. The point was about how anytime someone says, "how much would a programmer be," someone else says, "just get someone to do it for free to build their resume!" If you take trading seriously and think of it as a business, this makes no sense. In no other line of business...

I'd love to see a demo or at least some screenshots and a features list/documentation. Not sure if I'd buy it without seeing those first.

Clojure is not a "3rd party app," it's a programming language. When you've never heard of something, at least spend 10 seconds Googling the word before firing off a reply.

Tradelink looks great, but it seems to be Windows only. Would it run on Mac/Linux with Mono?

My free/open source Ruby interface to TWS, IB-Ruby, includes a utility in the examples/ subdirectory that does exactly this. It's at http://github.com/pjlegato/ib-ruby .

Check indeed.com. A lot of hedge funds are hiring Clojure programmers these days.

Speaking as a professional programmer, I, too, have seen plenty of horror stories come out of that scenario. I agree 100%. Nobody opening a new upscale restaurant would say, "get me the cheapest ingredients that money can buy, and the least-experienced staff available, because they'll work...