Very funny, but factually inaccurate. The wheat speculator is Arthur Cutten. Richard Whitney was not NYSE president in 1923 but 1930-35...
I created real-time TICK and indexes with eSignal and DDE. I no longer use it, as excel uses a lot of cycles and the marginal increase in...
Ed Thorp had a pricing model that anticipated Black-Scholes, which he used to price warrants to great effect. That was in the mid-Sixties and...
For a guy who doesn't like finance much Taleb certainly knows how to make money with it: He has been running derivatives trading and hedging...
I got the impression he does trade for the black swan event from the New Yorker article a few years ago about him and Niederhoffer (I think it was...
If GDP growth is your measure of how well an economy is doing here are some statistics. I took a look at GDP data from 1790 to the present to see...
This is a terrific finance/vba book: http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-modelling-finance-using-Excel/dp/0471499226/ and this is one of the best...
Here's a nice little Vista gothca if you're burning backup data on dvds (from...
Try the CRB Commodity Yearbook. A local library may have a copy in reference. N.B., there weren't energy futures around 50 years ago but you...
The article was posted 3 days after the Eurex credit derivative future was available. I don't know what you can project from the first three days...
I'm a little confused by this comment: a smaller sized, electronically traded SP500 future is the e-mini. I believe the SP500 contract is...
If IB updates 4 times per second then isn't it the case that a 50 tick bar is approximately just a 12.5 second bar? A tick chart on Signal can be...
Sponger - My recollection of ACD is that Fisher set up a break out boundary that was a point or two outside the (for example) 10-minute OR. (I...
It is because fibs are here, there and everywhere that they have an uncanny ability to mark reversal points.
I'm not sure I followed your english, but I would create a second admin account and then set my current admin account as a limited user.
I tested ACD with historical data (probably only two or three years of prices) a few years ago using Fisher's parameters and it didn't perform...
Chaos theory? -- nice non sequitur.
I only use fibonacci ratios in my trading. My method is to reverse any retracements that fall between .382 and .786. Works every time.
Here is an interesting link on some of the improvements in Excel 2007: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730921.aspx, with this section...
I migrated a set of 5 min ES data from the last 6 years over from Excel 2003 to 2007. Before it was spread over multiple sheets and now it fits...
Separate names with a comma.