Recent Content by kc11415

  1. This bubble is rediculous!

    attributed to Keynes, and sage advice for those trying to call tops/bottoms: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."...
    Post by: kc11415, Dec 20, 2006 in forum: Trading

  2. What was Forex like before the EUR?

    forex-forex>I'm surprised that Germany would go with the EUR over their own currency. Consider General Motors building cars in Detroit and...
    Post by: kc11415, Feb 20, 2006 in forum: Forex

  3. Any broker with no margin rules?

    Uhm, try google'ing for: SEC PDT NASD and you'll see: http://www.greencompany.com/EducationCenter/GTTRecTraTypPDT.shtml So, the definition of...
    Post by: kc11415, Jun 15, 2005 in forum: Retail Brokers

  4. housing crash

    Billbuild>Bloomberg is kind of a corporate shill IMO. To suggest someone is generally a shill for corporations is to suggest that all...
    Post by: kc11415, Jan 11, 2005 in forum: Economics

  5. housing crash

    NickelScalper>Good point regarding renovation adding to the longevity of a house. Indeed, at what point does it become "new construction"...
    Post by: kc11415, Jan 5, 2005 in forum: Economics

  6. housing crash

    Billbuild>We just tore 1 down about 2-1/2 yrs ago. Built in 1890. .... Today's house could be better built, but it is so far superior to what was...
    Post by: kc11415, Jan 5, 2005 in forum: Economics

  7. housing crash

    yenzen>Nah, they'll invent a 50 year mortgage after prices hit 400k In addition to mortgages with amortization schedules longer than most...
    Post by: kc11415, Jan 5, 2005 in forum: Economics

  8. Why use a database?

    kc11415>>1) Is your timing of this query fresh after the database is started? marist89>Give me a little credit. Please accept my apologies....
    Post by: kc11415, Oct 15, 2004 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  9. Why use a database?

    marist89>...I can get 850K records out of my database of 500M records in less then a second. Of course, I run Oracle. That sounds rather good....
    Post by: kc11415, Oct 14, 2004 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  10. Why use a database?

    kc11415>... This would require calculating 250,000 time-series correlations ... Very few institutionals will invest what is required for a strict...
    Post by: kc11415, Oct 14, 2004 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  11. Why use a database?

    Sparohok>Sure, every application is different, etc. But I think there is a right way to handle large amounts of time series data, and that is to...
    Post by: kc11415, Oct 14, 2004 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  12. Why use a database?

    inflector > Even a 10,000 RPM disk takes 6 milliseconds to rotate. So you only get 167 rotations per second. That's a lot of time when computers...
    Post by: kc11415, Oct 13, 2004 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  13. Why use a database?

    I've run many gigs of ticker data within big multi-cpu Unix servers with many gigs of RAM and hundreds of gigs of fiber-channel disks organized as...
    Post by: kc11415, Oct 13, 2004 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  14. API with T&Sales Data with flags

    Ah, OK. Those do seem to be rather severe bugs. With the inability to grab just a subset of the data, then does that mean it's and all or...
    Post by: kc11415, Sep 1, 2004 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  15. API with T&Sales Data with flags

    OK, you've described the "severity" of the problems in terms of its impact to you, and how eSignal might "workaround" the problems. Could I ask...
    Post by: kc11415, Aug 31, 2004 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds