Take lots and lots and lots of math classes and focus on econometrics, statistics, and some computer science at some AFFORDABLE state school....
My gut feeling was that they were running a strategy that was correct in a purely theoretical sense, but one that couldn't cut it in terms of...
I agree with some aspect of nitro's comments, but I agree with your assessment also. The skills that can be offered by someone with your typical,...
Let's say I have a trade that has a slight edge on the order of tens of dollars per day, and it trades about 500 shares a day. Over the course of...
She doesn't even try. Starting to make me upset, affecting my trading and job. Someone tell me it's just the economy.
Generally speaking, a slow platform is to blame if it is behind slippage. I'm not saying TS is the one to blame here as I have no basis for...
I run it in a VM with 4GB and 2 virtual cores allocated to it, running about 20 symbols and it brings the system to its knees. It's my fault,...
I always ask the interesting authors on ET to start a blog. No one has taken me up on it. Perhaps you could share your retail trader journey...
Did you say you had a blog? I'd like to follow it if you do. I find the journal format on EliteTrader to be really confusing, and it's something...
Off-topic: You were thinking the same thing I was thinking. The coach of the Saints is a very, very sharp guy, and he's aggressive. The...
1) Just curious how fast you can actually trade on this platform and get away with a profit, given transaction costs and such. I haven't been...
Exactly. I think we ultimately see eye to eye, here. Although, let's say hypothetically that programmer realized he was worth more than the...
I second this.
The less risk there is involved in a trade (e.g, some well-known arb), the more the platform matters. If your trajectory is to take your business...
Sorry, people coming out of universities cannot replace trained programmers. If you are talking about the bleeding edge, just any programmer will...
In all seriousness, in modern automated trading, the execution performance is worth more than the strategy. The platform facilitates models, the...
Everytime you call someone a retard or something retarded, it makes Sarah Palin hurt a little more on the inside. Please, won't you think of...
http://www.housingtracker.net/asking-prices/chicago-illinois/ Go figure, the market did drop to 229k. Now the question is how far we do...
Oops, realized the data was 2007 numbers. I'm still assuming the ratio hasn't fallen too far from 4, though -- although, I am looking for better...
Look at this URL: http://www.housingtracker.net/affordability/illinois/chicago Realized I made a post on the Chicago market earlier. I did...
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