Recent Content by bigdavediode

  1. Is Romney about to create one of the greatest upsets of all time?

    This thread is priceless. Has everyone taken screen shots? So far we've learned in this thread that Mitt Romney hasn't attacked enough,...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Sep 19, 2012 in forum: Politics

  2. Genetic Algorithms, Multi-Dimensional Problem Solving, and Trading

    You may want to check out the "curse of dimensionality." Five dimensions is probably too many, depending on each input's error range for your...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Apr 23, 2012 in forum: Psychology

  3. Global warming hoax fools millions

    I haven't posted any responses to you in almost a year. And since you're reverting to Dr. Roy Spencer, creationist, it's worth mentioning that...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Jul 29, 2011 in forum: Politics

  4. Blast hits government buildings in Oslo, Norway; shooter arrested at youth camp!

    “We are not sure whether he was alone or had help,” a police official, Roger Andresen, said at a televised news conference. “What we know is...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Jul 23, 2011 in forum: Wall St. News

  5. how important is start time for time frame bars

    Choosing different sample intervals or times becomes one method of smoothing. So why would you think that highs and lows offer less noise?...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Jul 7, 2011 in forum: Technical Analysis

  6. How many losses in a row?

    Hi Alan, pleasure to read your posts. Ralph Vince has a fair bit of mathematics on this in the book Portfolio Management Formulas (yes, with the...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Jun 29, 2011 in forum: Risk Management

  7. ATS development

    Not what I was getting at. If you're going to develop an automated system, especially using NN's you'll need clean, detrended, normalized data or...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Jun 26, 2011 in forum: Automated Trading

  8. ATS development

    May I give you some advice? Many traders appear to be misguided in trying to implement automated trading via APIs et al rather than performing...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Jun 25, 2011 in forum: Automated Trading

  9. German Nuclear Plants to Close.

    Well best of luck to you on your quest to convince people that nuclear isn't dead. Hopefully you guys can keep pumping out enough GE reactors to...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Jun 6, 2011 in forum: Economics

  10. had lunch with some HFT traders

    The market share that a product has is not connected to its qualities as a real-time operating system. Linux can be altered to be a reasonable...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Jun 3, 2011 in forum: Professional Trading

  11. German Nuclear Plants to Close.

    If they do this is they will probably not go for French Areva EPRs instead of Russia reactors which are cheaper and give them the flexibility to...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Jun 3, 2011 in forum: Economics

  12. German Nuclear Plants to Close.

    16 reactors by 2030? I wonder why an Arab country in a massive sun belt would want 16 reactors in such a short amount of time. Is it a genuine...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Jun 2, 2011 in forum: Economics

  13. German Nuclear Plants to Close.

    As goes India, China and Bangladesh, so goes the world.
    Post by: bigdavediode, Jun 1, 2011 in forum: Economics

  14. German Nuclear Plants to Close.

    I appreciate that you like nuclear very, very much. And I won't bother to critique your posts (okay, just a wee bit -- the US is not the world,...
    Post by: bigdavediode, Jun 1, 2011 in forum: Economics

  15. German Nuclear Plants to Close.

    Luckily they're not putting all their eggs in one basket. I can't speak for Germany, but actually the expansion potential for hydro in the US...
    Post by: bigdavediode, May 31, 2011 in forum: Economics