Recent Content by nicholaf

  1. Bright Trade

    And yet, there is always so much talk about paying your "tuition" in terms of losses in the market. But if the knowledge that you learned paying...
    Post by: nicholaf, Jun 9, 2006 in forum: Professional Trading

  2. Arbitrage Trading Software

    SPAM
    Post by: nicholaf, Jun 8, 2006 in forum: Trading Software

  3. best language for quantiative finance? C, D, Fortran,python etc.

    C++
    Post by: nicholaf, Jun 2, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  4. win/loss over 70% - please help

    win loss really doesn't mean much. you have to take the level of returns into consideration for the win loss to be meaningful
    Post by: nicholaf, Jun 2, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  5. EBS acquired by ICAP

    Huge news. thanks
    Post by: nicholaf, Apr 21, 2006 in forum: Forex Brokers

  6. Althucher guesses: trend funds to disappear within the next 10 years...

    obviously you are not institutional level
    Post by: nicholaf, Apr 7, 2006 in forum: Wall St. News

  7. Althucher guesses: trend funds to disappear within the next 10 years...

    ps vishnu, i like your books. gave me some good ideas.
    Post by: nicholaf, Apr 7, 2006 in forum: Wall St. News

  8. Althucher guesses: trend funds to disappear within the next 10 years...

    what Vishnu is saying is that trend following funds have inferior sharpe, sortino, omega ratio etc. they simply are not efficient in the MPT...
    Post by: nicholaf, Apr 7, 2006 in forum: Wall St. News

  9. Resume Help

    concentrate on the "transferrable skills" - skills that you developed while in the prop that can be used elsewhere.
    Post by: nicholaf, Mar 28, 2006 in forum: Professional Trading

  10. Forecasting prices, and Mandelbrot is right.

    lol more like watching in amusement while you quote things you really don't know about and feeling so proud of it while faking humbleness. nice
    Post by: nicholaf, Mar 20, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  11. Forecasting prices, and Mandelbrot is right.

    just a wannabe
    Post by: nicholaf, Mar 20, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  12. 1% a day consistently: possible?

    1% consistently without any down weeks = paper trading backtest with look ahead bias
    Post by: nicholaf, Mar 20, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  13. Forecasting prices, and Mandelbrot is right.

    :D http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=914135#post914135 apparently this system was already developed since dec 05
    Post by: nicholaf, Mar 19, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  14. 1% a day consistently: possible?

    you might want to check for look ahead bias.
    Post by: nicholaf, Mar 18, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  15. trend following delusion shattered

    the article, while interesting, lacks statistical significance
    Post by: nicholaf, Mar 12, 2006 in forum: Trading