Recent Content by Judge Smales

  1. How Free-Riding French, Germans Risk Nuclear Anarchy

    Agreed. The unfortunate consequence of letting the rest of the world fend for itself would be unprecedented global casualties. I think a point...
    Post by: Judge Smales, Mar 9, 2003 in forum: Politics

  2. How Free-Riding French, Germans Risk Nuclear Anarchy

    By Stuart Taylor Jr., National Journal © National Journal Group Inc. Monday, March 3, 2003 Imagine President Bush responding as follows to...
    Thread by: Judge Smales, Mar 8, 2003, 6 replies, in forum: Politics

  3. Market Maker Collusion

    You are imagining things. Maybe what you are seeing is a market maker who is working an order. He needs to commit capital to a customer, and...
    Post by: Judge Smales, Feb 6, 2003 in forum: Trading

  4. Can using a "tick indicator" improve my results slightly?

    I use the tick, but not for scalping. The tick is most useful at tops and bottoms of the market. If I see 2 large downticks two days out of...
    Post by: Judge Smales, Feb 1, 2003 in forum: Index Futures

  5. NYSE bigcap trading

    The way a lot of big cap institutional floor trading is done is by spliting prints (ie. participate with the buyers or sellers). Tape reading is...
    Post by: Judge Smales, Jan 29, 2003 in forum: Trading

  6. Generic

    Don't know the Generic deals, but I know lava. Watcher and Hammer are both better. It's ok, but inferior to either of those two platforms, IMO....
    Post by: Judge Smales, Jan 29, 2003 in forum: Prop Firms

  7. Program Traders versus NYSE Specialists

    Most desks let you overweight/underweight certain issues to juice your results, or position trade around indexing. Also, some desks will...
    Post by: Judge Smales, Jan 27, 2003 in forum: Strategy Building

  8. What lyrics tell a story the best?

    not sure that the storys are great, but the lyrics are: Old man down way down down, down by the docks of the city, Blind and dirty asked me...
    Post by: Judge Smales, Jan 27, 2003 in forum: Politics

  9. Firms stealing strategies....

    Careful who you talk to. What you are describing is collusion, and the reason mm's got sued in the early 90's.
    Post by: Judge Smales, Nov 22, 2002 in forum: Prop Firms

  10. bloomberg terminal- worth the $$$ ??

    If you are getting Bloomberg primarily because you think the news service is faster, I would disagree. It is fast, and sometimes it is...
    Post by: Judge Smales, Nov 22, 2002 in forum: Trading Software

  11. price pressure

    Your question is unanswerable as phrased. It completely depends on the name you are trading. $3 million is not a particularly large amount in a...
    Post by: Judge Smales, Nov 20, 2002 in forum: Trading

  12. Subscriptions to newsfeeds (i.e. Dow Jones, Reuters, etc)

    I believe you can get BridgeStation from Reuters for about $450/month. Much easier than Bloomberg, same in terms of time(faster in many...
    Post by: Judge Smales, Nov 11, 2002 in forum: Trading

  13. Are you experiencing problems with ARCA?

    I have a direct feed and trade on the ARCA platform, it has really sucked for about the past 2 months. Crossed markets, not getting fills I was...
    Post by: Judge Smales, Nov 11, 2002 in forum: Order Execution

  14. Elder's "Trading for a Living"

    1. Richard Wyckoff 2. Steve Nison 3. Joe DiNapoli Wyckoff is hard to find. His work in my opinion will help you to understand how...
    Post by: Judge Smales, Oct 24, 2002 in forum: Technical Analysis