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Forum: Psychology and Money Management August 12th, 2010, 06:04 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 3,488
Posted By darthtrader3.6
are you over leveraged?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyATmCJf4fc

If you lay me odds that 90% of people here are over leveraged at +200 I'll take that bet all day..
There is a HUGE hole in the retail trading literature...
Forum: Traders Hideout August 12th, 2010, 05:51 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 12,138
Posted By darthtrader3.6
I don't blame anyone here for thinking I'm full...

I don't blame anyone here for thinking I'm full of shit. Stuff like elitetrader is such poison, with so many failed bullshitters...entropy/noise ratio is null..its just pure noise.

I posted what I...
Forum: Traders Hideout August 12th, 2010, 05:43 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 12,138
Posted By darthtrader3.6
Do you want to be a trader or do you want to hold...

Do you want to be a trader or do you want to hold some illusion of trading as some noble profession to some big bank HR person...
Citi ditched the on site corp picnic where i worked because the...
Forum: Traders Hideout August 12th, 2010, 05:13 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 11,563
Posted By darthtrader3.6
Limit vs market orders have to be viewed in the...

Limit vs market orders have to be viewed in the context of order flow in your strategy and what you are trying to exploit..
Limit orders are highly overrated because you are straight out committing...
Forum: Traders Hideout August 12th, 2010, 04:47 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 12,138
Posted By darthtrader3.6
No one is forcing you to read my post and...

No one is forcing you to read my post and respond. Certainly there are many Gann line , market profile bullshit posts on here you have not responded to.
I have 30k in the bank, a 100k house I bought...
Forum: Traders Hideout August 12th, 2010, 04:45 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 12,138
Posted By darthtrader3.6
From your posts I respect you Fat Tails...I made...

From your posts I respect you Fat Tails...I made this post to try to spark an interesting discussion beyond the same old lame single time series analysis stuff.
If you think what I posted is...
Forum: Traders Hideout August 12th, 2010, 04:28 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 12,138
Posted By darthtrader3.6
I dropped out of CS at the University of...

I dropped out of CS at the University of Pittsburgh in 2000 for a 70k a year javascript job i bullshitted my way into(worked at a 20 person financial place that managed local retirement funds in...
Forum: Traders Hideout August 11th, 2010, 09:28 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 12,138
Posted By darthtrader3.6
how do you think markets work?

A few weeks back I quit my job as the monkey boy on a Citi USD/JPY option desk...I'm a college dropout and basically bullshitted my way into the position to start with, never was going to be a trader...
Forum: Traders Hideout July 28th, 2010, 05:45 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 8,191
Posted By darthtrader3.6
I would suspect though this depends on the...

I would suspect though this depends on the current market regime though. I would imagine this would be flipped on a 60 minute ES chart during the crisis.
Forum: Psychology and Money Management July 28th, 2010, 02:05 PM
Replies: 628
Views: 195,033
Posted By darthtrader3.6
These figures are all skewed though. There are...

These figures are all skewed though.
There are 6600 members of this board alone..130 people then fit this..
I actually would be sure its much lower than that just as far as being profitable and...
Forum: Traders Hideout July 28th, 2010, 12:38 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 8,191
Posted By darthtrader3.6
There is an ok preview of Patterns of Speculation...

There is an ok preview of Patterns of Speculation on google books although its a bit deceptive as none of the math heavy parts are in the preview.
I think with this question though you have to keep...
Forum: Platforms and Indicators June 22nd, 2010, 06:57 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 78,801
Posted By darthtrader3.6
I would check out tradlink before starting from...

I would check out tradlink before starting from scratch. Would probably get a lot farther ahead pitching in to help them out than from rolling your own.

tradelink - Project Hosting on Google Code...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management June 21st, 2010, 09:31 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 6,251
Posted By darthtrader3.6
Well consider 10 years ago is about the time...

Well consider 10 years ago is about the time "daytrading died" from the tech boom perspective, yet here we all are having this discussion.
I wouldn't worry much about some nightmare scenario where...
Forum: NinjaTrader June 18th, 2010, 08:24 AM
Replies: 1,059
Views: 362,514
Posted By darthtrader3.6
uhhh... ...

uhhh...
https://bnpparibasus.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en#
I guess BNP Paribas are just currently hiring positions such as:
FX Algo Developer
Inflation Quantitative Researcher...
Forum: NinjaTrader June 17th, 2010, 08:25 AM
Replies: 1,059
Views: 362,514
Posted By darthtrader3.6
Stuff that is two decades old and has nothing to...

Stuff that is two decades old and has nothing to do with the present.

Ninja is fine IMO as long as you forget about the strategy developement part.
I think you have to consider at the...
Forum: Traders Hideout June 16th, 2010, 10:14 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 32,340
Posted By darthtrader3.6
If you take this as tape reading though, I think...

If you take this as tape reading though, I think you can make an argument that tape reading no longer really exists.
Fragmentation algorithms make the volume of a single print basically useless,...
Forum: Off-Topic June 3rd, 2010, 07:13 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 7,738
Posted By darthtrader3.6
I don't know, I would have liked to discuss this...

I don't know, I would have liked to discuss this but thought that the final episode was so bad it largely ruined the entire show for me. A lot of carrying on about nothing.
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors May 27th, 2010, 07:52 AM
Replies: 248
Views: 234,398
Posted By darthtrader3.6
The whole idea of a trading room though is...

The whole idea of a trading room though is illogical. The online poker world has similar coaching websites like trading rooms but at least those make sense from a self interest standpoint of those...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management May 27th, 2010, 07:36 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 7,764
Posted By darthtrader3.6
Keep in mind this can also not be true. While no...

Keep in mind this can also not be true. While no money management system can make a system with negative exception into a winning system, you can quite easily take a system with positive expectation...
Forum: Traders Hideout May 20th, 2010, 08:52 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 24,439
Posted By darthtrader3.6
This has just been a needed correction. My bro in...

This has just been a needed correction. My bro in law had already taken leave of his senses on risk and was mad in march that he was "only" up 5% in the first quarter after the huge gains a monkey...
Forum: Brokers May 20th, 2010, 08:38 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 102,599
Posted By darthtrader3.6
ahh damn, this sounds great. Very smart move on...

ahh damn, this sounds great. Very smart move on the Ninja guys part. Great name too for a tick data provider :smile:
Forum: Brokers May 19th, 2010, 09:00 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 102,599
Posted By darthtrader3.6
I don't know..isn't this just DTN re branding...

I don't know..isn't this just DTN re branding themselves?
Forum: Psychology and Money Management April 30th, 2010, 01:18 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 3,465
Posted By darthtrader3.6
a Volatility and money management journal...

I'll admit it..I'm incredibly greedy, self centered, over confident to the point that I care less about proving something to other people with a price journal when it comes to trading, I know I've...
Forum: NinjaTrader April 29th, 2010, 11:53 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 11,431
Posted By darthtrader3.6
I don't see though how smaller time frame traders...

I don't see though how smaller time frame traders = noise though..Market "noise" is probably one of the most interesting topics in finance. I know information theory has a lot of insight on this...
Forum: Traders Hideout April 29th, 2010, 11:27 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 4,258
Posted By darthtrader3.6
It is good thinking but honestly, I think you...

It is good thinking but honestly, I think you should just try to learn about everything..I don't really buy you can short cut this process. Its easy to say don't waste time with elliot wave/gan...
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