dear nitro: i myself have thrown lots of programming time because of poor design. now i am wiser and i spend more time in the...
that's right, a lot of time is spent in idiosyncracies. i guess 30,000 hours is an accurate assessment if you have to figure out all those things...
metooxx: not all so-called "systems" are trivial. the data part and the execution are difficult problems, but any decent programmer can solve...
I've used Matlab intensively, it has a number of limitations for really big projects, it's not evident at first, and it takes too long to explain....
vladiator, my 0.02: i) Be patient, arbitrage opportunities will always be there (hey you are a finance phd so you have read grossman and...
that webpage was deleted a few days ago. but it's still on google's cache, go to google.com's advanced search, put "charity" in terms to look for...
Craig, the last part sounds interesting, does certain firm called A**X-futures offers it?
i am posting this so craig doesn't have to :D yes, it is called j-trader's P.I.G. price injector gun. i think it's in any j-trader manual...
DblArrow thanks a lot for the info
or not... :D you can always place a tail-event trade a la Nassim Taleb....
Pabst: great advice! you are right! In fact, this is another reason why I still would prefer daytrading margins, to keep as little money as...
DblArrow: who's your broker? how much the commish, which software? how about connection reliability, phone backup, etc.? thanks
Pabst: could you expand about the shops giving daytrading margins that you don't like, or at least give clues who are they? is any of them...
Most brokers offering day trading margins revert margins at 4:15 EST. IB, reverting at 3:50, is the exception. Makes you wonder why.
babak: check http://toolkit.taltrade.com/ you need to program your own application (in C++?) to retrieve the data "as realtick does", analyze...
Brutus: My feeling is that a mechanical trader is just a computer-assisted discretionary trader, nitro said that you have to know how to trade...
Baron: we are trying to help. One of the things that made this board so great was unbiasedness. Look for example to the Ziff-Davies example....
Exactly. Another good reason.
It's breaking, this forum is starting to look like some other (very low quality) boards. Sorry but it's not like it used to be. Signal to noise...
Yes, paying is a good idea. Posting should be free, because the posters' contribution is what makes this board so good, so we shouldn't create a...
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