eBay has lost alot of market share to Amazon in current manufactured items. eBay does a poor job with high volume items where the customer wants...
tim888, kut2k2, intradaybill: Don't be so cut-and-dry. If your hypothesis is that 10,000 is an important support/resistance point, then there...
To be honest, your ratio sounds very peculiar. Using the opening price as your transaction price is pretty good. The reason for using a ratio of...
I can't speak for Gianno, but the premise, its-all-been-done-before, is both right and wrong. Economists, in their pleasure to have everything...
There have been several websites mentioned in the pair trading thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=134253 Free:...
My experience is that these reconciliation/confirmation errors for foreign trades is a major problem. I did a search in the ET history, and I...
I only just now have time again to discuss this topic. Does anyone still care about testing on adjusted data verses authentic data?
Agreed, there are many limitations to back testing.
For many of our retired brethren, trading is more of a hobby than a vocation. The hope is that by applying time to manage their investments that...
One would have thought that after the Sony BMG Copy Protection Rootkit Scandal that the idiots would have been fired. I guess that escaping...
The easiest way to describe splitting the calculation and execution code is to give the execution code programmer a simple bogus system which has...
Another popular option for getting started without risking capital is to use Daily Summary data (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, and Open...
Yes, the catalog of postponed issues, mistakes, mishaps, and near catastrophes surrounding nuclear power only reenforces my impression that the we...
Nowadays, there are many good options for learning to program trading indicators. TradeLinks is a bit bare. I haven't used OpenQuant, but it...
I appreciate that we have some vendor support here: TradeLink, OpenQuant, but you guys need to read the post.
The relative wealth and abundance in the US economy does reflects previous generation's investment in the future coming to fruition. We are...
Don't overthink the problem. OP wants to be able to change variable (parameter) values without recompiling and add parameters with a minimum of...
I agree, but it is a chilling effect. Over-cautiousness, or does a company with 1000 companies really get into 10x$1M worth of lawsuits per year....
As far as not being able to fire people as a reason for not hiring, corporate America has gotten excessively fearful over litigation risk in minor...
I want to add-in the growing trend of contingent employment. When I was unemployed, most of the recruiters were calling for short-term (6 month...
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