Recent Content by marine

  1. Made in USA sneaker (34 bucks) Made in China shoe 60 bucks.

    Lets see first hand how many people here have actually been to China. The media and news articles do not always get things accurate or they...
    Post by: marine, Oct 8, 2010 in forum: Economics

  2. Tick Data Vendor

    TickData is good for futures. But I think it's to expenisve for equities. I have spotted differences between TickData and Bloomberg. I then...
    Post by: marine, Sep 21, 2010 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  3. Was JFk, killed for taking federal reseve off the currency?

    What are you on about, JFK is still alive. I saw him last week hanging with Elvis and Michael Jackson. :)
    Post by: marine, Sep 16, 2010 in forum: Wall St. News

  4. UK prop

    If you are an exchange member and hold the security for less than 28 days. There are different types of membership and I believe LSE has recently...
    Post by: marine, Aug 17, 2010 in forum: Prop Firms

  5. UK prop

    This is not correct. You can get around the stamp duty by trading CFDs or by holding a security for less than a month.
    Post by: marine, Aug 16, 2010 in forum: Prop Firms

  6. Dividend Question?

    Can you post a picture of your wife? :)
    Post by: marine, Jul 22, 2010 in forum: Stocks

  7. Consistent group of 10-15 traders looking for a better deal

    You didn't say what city you were in? Why don't you setup on your own? It seems that you have a pretty good deal and you are just being...
    Post by: marine, Apr 15, 2010 in forum: Prop Firms

  8. Back testing futures

    Bloomberg, Reuters and TickData all provide a way to roll futures so that you can look at them over a long time horizion. For example you can...
    Post by: marine, Apr 9, 2010 in forum: Automated Trading

  9. 10 Places not to use your Debit Cards

    I few years ago I had a job which took me to China a few times a year. I read somewhere that alot of fraud was happening in China. So typically...
    Post by: marine, Mar 25, 2010 in forum: Economics

  10. Worldwide recession very near?

    I don't know about this ... I think eventually you might be right but nobody knows when it's going to turn. You could be like LTCM just a year to...
    Post by: marine, Mar 24, 2010 in forum: Economics

  11. How to convince wife to let me trade full time?

    It could have been luck ... and your luck might be ready to run out. Can you make money in this environment? What is your Sharpe over the last...
    Post by: marine, Mar 10, 2010 in forum: Professional Trading

  12. Pair trading in Options

    This is something I have been thinking about for a long time. There are guys who trade MR in the option world via volatility. It's not exactly...
    Post by: marine, Feb 25, 2010 in forum: Options

  13. computer specs for trading stocks

    It all depends on the software you are using. From what you say you are doing; it's nothing special, so a normal PC should be fine. It's always...
    Post by: marine, Feb 15, 2010 in forum: Hardware

  14. What is the best solution to:

    The cheapest way is to do it yourself. Learn a programming language and implement what you want. Since you are using IB they usually limit the...
    Post by: marine, Feb 15, 2010 in forum: Automated Trading

  15. Backtesting Trading Strategies

    I use a proprietary BT platform which I built myself. It follows a distributed architecture which consists of Matlab, Excel, Bloomberg, SQL Server...
    Post by: marine, Jan 7, 2010 in forum: Strategy Building