Ah, maybe you're right. Yeah, if you ever want to figure out how much someone is making, a good statistical way to calculate it is to take...
Article says "up to", so the reality is he probably made 200 every year and then one year made 550. If you wanted to hazard a guess as to what...
What, no. Prop taxes, income taxes, etc. At best he could have saved 100-110 after expenses.
Remember the rhyme about the indian princess named soh-cah-toa. sin = opposite over hypotenuse (sin->soh) cah = adjacent over hypotenuse...
On a more serious note, I'm more interested in just documenting what I do that's wrong. I know what I'm doing is wrong, I've got the post-it...
1) I want to hold myself accountable, hence the title "Mentally Challenged" -- since it's a mental challenge to stay disciplined. 2) Trader,...
-$195. It would have been a grand day, but I made some idiot discretionary trades. I need to stop making discretionary trades, no matter how...
Revised: +$119.50. Code had bugs, but I saw what it was trying to do and continued with the logic to make a little more money.
+$89.50. Code of mine is not working correctly; bugs prevented me from making much more. Going to call it a day and step aside to fix software...
One thing at a time, man. First, let me move out of my mom's basement. :-)
I use TradeStation. Since I use their backtester, I consider it a "good fill" when it gets the price as close to the opening of the next bar....
Yes, I know what I am looking for. I designed a model based on an observation I saw in the market, and the performance of that model was so...
EFS is a disaster. Do you plan on revising it so it's not as clunky as it used to be? Getting work done in EFS was a total chore compared to TS...
I was looking at these two, and they seem like they move in step. Occasionally though, one starts to move faster than the other and give better...
I see this all the time on this forum, and my response to you is: so what? Not to challenge your assertion or be rude -- you're right, but ......
You should copy others' work and paste it as your own, and cite that since outsourcing has freed up your time, ... you can now go out and create...
-$70. I should have punched out at break-even, but I expected more out of my trades. Didn't happen. Could not get the break I wanted.
I'll chip in $20 if you hire a lobbyist. :-)
Hey Don, I'm really glad you guys are doing this. The whole fragmenting of the equity market is a sham. I'm glad you guys are tackling this...
Thanks Rabbitone. This was insightful.
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