baron: please do not censor anybody, why should somebody who's trying to make a buck for his company be censored, remember this is a forum about...
amen
suscribe to realtick, and then download the api that's all there is to it.
:D i agree l.w. is the poster boy of snake oil marketing, l.w. books it's so obvious they are 100% b.s., but some pattern books have been useful...
nitro i didn't mean no disrespect, yes, you are very fortunate to have "chicago experience" and i doubt that any book is going to teach you...
:D yes, that's right, most books and vendors are not really worth the expense or the time. but how are you going to find the gems if you don't do...
quite true. usually smart people don't need to be told everything in excruciating detail. point them in the right direction and they will catch...
jnkbox: no i am not using pairs trading, at this moment. but you can find the basic idea, relative value, behind a lot of other strategies like...
bob: don't get intimidated by the big money, particularly by i-banks. i haven't worked in a program trading (sweat)shop, but what they do is...
jnkbox, besides the crabel book for the opening range breakout pattern, there is an academic paper that may be of interest for pairs trading...
Not necessarily. Toby Crabel published a book 10 years ago and he's still making good money from his basic methodologies....
He's just trying to stop people from pulling money out from mutual funds. Lots of people have been doing that right now. Anybody can buy and hold...
that's a great advice, proveuwrong. spending many hours programming doesn't sound that glamorous but if you someday actually make a living from...
I don't know anything about a book mentioning a j-hook but there is a website www.patterntrapper.com mentioning it as a reversal pattern. The...
joe ross' hook?
proprietary desks are sort of in-house hedge funds. in view of the large number of blowups in the recent years, some banks have disbanded many of...
as far as i know the big macro hedge funds and proprietary trading desks don't daytrade currencies, they trade trends and keep positions open for...
Sorry i wouldn't give my money to anybody with an MBA and 8 years "experience" at an I-bank. In trading it's not experience what counts what...
Financial World magazine used to publish rankings of the highest paid people in wall st and hedge fund managers were at the top of the list,...
caprisk: why don't you go to or open a hedge fund? there is a lot of hot money out there and you would have more independence. i wouldn't work...
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