There's also a list of indices at the PHLX that gives complete descriptions including component issues and weightings as well as option contract...
Pejman - If you're the legit licensee of the software, contact Microsoft. They'll have a procedure to verify you and they can replace your...
You could try the ADX/DMI formulas to determine whether you're really in a trend for your period and how strong the direction. Alternatively...
Re: "...a lot of traders..." - apparently not enough to make the operation viable.
What you should question more is a system that claims to trade equally well for futures and equities. Even a mechanical system that claims to...
murray - what are you saying? Got to say that I've written my share of stream of consciousness posts before, but so far your messages seem to...
From the description so far, it sounds like its basically focused on only on scalping. So perhaps it would be better to characterize it as a...
DT-wav - Jann's right. # of trades over the backtest timeframe is irrelavent as a gauge of whether a system is over optimized and whether it...
jaan - A point of clarification - owning stock does NOT create any practical obligation on the part of the company to give you a cut of future...
DT-Wav - You probably see "system" results based on full SP contracts because it'll inflate their numbers by a factor of 5. It's marketing....
jaan - A futures contract is a contract to own the underlying commodity at a specific price. So if I buy a gold contract @ $270, I'm saying...
jaan - The "intrinsic value" of any futures contract is the current spot value of the commodity it's written on - some futures are simply cash...
DT-wav - The bid/ask spread on the S&P emini is usually 0.25 (on the NDX emini it's usually between 0.50-1.00) and there is usually more than...
mikebiz1 - don't know what you're paying to get a fax with SRs for the SPX and NDX futures, but it's probably way too much. I've seen several...
Cdntrader's right. The brokers ask those questions because they've been sued in the past by novice traders who lost their butts and then sued the...
While it IS possible to "get away" with trading offshore and not paying taxes through a device like an offshore corporation, BUT "getting away...
andrasnm - you're definitely right about Chicago politics and even the whole politics of open outcry at the Chicago exchanges, but I think you're...
qwik - I believe the usual interpretation of "essentially the same" security would NOT match up INTC and AMD. They are different securities for...
Kicking - check this link http://www.ird.com/features.htm They do actually mention that they worked with Townsend (presumably to clone Realtick...
Looks like the same program and the same people and most of the same hype that was being pumped on this and several other boards about a year and...
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