The oil under that Texas prairie land has just about doubled in value in the last two years. TPL derives about half its cash flow from oil...
I was not able to short TKF or CHN today at Interactive Brokers, but RedSky had them. Of the stocks I have tried to short in the last few months,...
Rent. Heck, move to Pittsburgh, where you can still get a nice three bedroom house in a good neighborhood for $125k. If we were talking...
If the rent pays the mortgage. Where I live, you'd be lucky to cover 2/3 of the mortgage with rent income, before expenses. Rents have dropped...
The funny thing is, I agree with both sides of this argument. That just goes to show that y'all are completely talking past each other. Yes,...
Are you serious??? Who cares? It's not like your order is being sent by carrier pigeon. Even if you used a broker across the street the packets...
I'm in the same spot, I'm just starting to capture tick data. So I hardly have all the answers. But I've heard multiple people recommend IQFeed...
You're right, incompetence or lack of knowledge or lack of dedication can lead to bad strategies. I was just trying to point out the converse, bad...
Couldn't agree more. I'm not saying never optimize. I'm saying optimize only when necessary - when the actual performance does not meet...
Prophet, I'm not critiquing your system or your software, no need to get defensive. I am making generic recommendations for people writing...
Just to clarify this point, I certainly agree with Prophet that once you have a working, tested, valid strategy the natural thing to do is scale...
Hi again Prophet, Another day of this? I guess so. :) If by optimization you mean designing good, efficient algorithms, then by all means we...
Hey Prophet, I think we're in violent agreement here. :) I'm not against optimization, I just think that someone just starting out with their...
To refute your silly assertion, I guess. You said that one cannot do serious market analysis in 10 minutes a day of computer time. Fortunes have...
As far as analyzing tick data versus bar data, I think we've said all that needs to be said. Let the coder be the judge. :) Jeez... kids these...
If I have a nightly data analysis program that takes 10 minutes to run, I could care less about a 4 order of magnitude improvement. It works, it...
Prophet, I'm not saying tick data is useless, I'm just saying it's harder to analyze than bar data. The algorithms and data structures are...
Tell me that after calculating the covariance of two sets of tick data. The problem is not just the increasing amount of data, it is the lack...
Tick data is hard to work with efficiently no matter what data structure you use. IMHO, the only reason to stop using a transactional database...
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 keep it in...
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