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darthtrader
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i'm eating my bastard version of chicken tikka masala right now.
I just finally learned to cook this year when I got sick of the indian restaurant near me. I never thought I would be able to, you just have to try something you like and know how it should taste. Its really not hard at all.
I'm going to try to make this Carne Mechada dish next weekend:
that guy has alot of great stuff if you click on all his videos.
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The Professional Commodity Trader by Stan Kroll.....nice...I always get books for christmas, have to add this one to the list. I'm a sucker for any old book under 10 bucks.
Tops for my list are Steenbarger's last book, The Nature of Risk by Justin Mamis and Markets in Profile.
Barnes and Noble has the Way of the Turtle in the stores, if anyone is thinking of getting that I would read it there first. Really seemed pretty useless.
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I've read some of the Logical Trader. I'm not really sure how his pivot ranges would mirror MP value areas outside of randomness since I don't believe he is useing volume in their calculations. In balancing market I'm sure they would be pretty close but I imagine in a trend they could get quite far apart. I'm not sure why it really matters though, its not hard to get MP value areas at this point. I do think there has to be some parts of Fishers ideas that would fit in with MP trading though.
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Its interesting they mention Ninja on that site. I've been poking around with the demo and it really seems like it will become a powerhouse in the future. For programming they have just extended C# for trading so you have all the C# learning resources available to learn. It said on the forum they will be opening up access to the super DOM, once that happens Ninja would seem like the logical choice for this kind of analysis. Certainly would be much easier than neoticker or that crazy guy in the elite thread that rolled his own with open source java charts.
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hey blue,
I haven't tried the demo yet. I emailed them about the vwap. If I can get jerry's stuff going on the charts I'm sold. I think I might get a job on saturdays just to keep my software costs at zero.. I could see the information overload with all the different features. Just feels like I'f im going to do this, may as well start off learning with everything that I want.
The MP charts do look fantastic too.
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hey brownsfan, I read traderfeed everyday. Some of those other ones look interesting but Dr. Brett usually post 2 long decent blogs a day. If you have never read that site its probly worth more to read the back blogs than even bother with other sites. I would buy his blog as a book if he printed it out and sold it, its fantastic.
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Well back to this again...I'm just going to have to try this and spend the money. From looking up stuff on this all weekend, while agree with what was stated up top that this seems totally useless on its own I just can't believe this information wouldnt be worth it if your using it to make more informed decissions on what your already doing,especially with market profile.
lots of interesting charts here
The thing I thought was most interesting from looking at the charts was in a trend.
If you figure that there is no good trade location in a strong trend, then it makes sense that everyone is trying to front run eachother with aggressive market orders.It would be interesting to see more charts like that and if that is a general property of a strong trend or those charts were just random luck.
Something else interesting with the charts on that site is that bar on the bottom. It looks like in a balancing market the deltas are rotating back and forth, while the magnitude of the deltas get lower(which would make total sense for a balancing market). Then in a trend you get more of the same prints in a line while the magnitude increases.
I wonder if that volume delta indicator for tradestation on here could be tweaked to better show the magnitude of the deltas better? In its current form it seems a bit binary as far as what its really giving you information wise.
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grrr, my software is all messed up for some reason but pretty much agree with you. Seems like a great spot where the market has to make a decission one way or the other.
I actually spent the weekend reading everything I could find on the market delta/footprint software. Seems like right here is when that information would be perfect. I would expect aggression to come in when we move from this level, if you could see what side is getting hit market order wise, lifting or sinking bids, when that happens then just jump on that side and go with it.
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msconfig is a good idea. junk will start up over time, its pretty hard to avoid that.
I always just reinstall windows every 6 months though. If you have never done it, you guys should get partition magic and cut up your hard drive into sections. I always make my c drive about 20 gigs then store any data I wouldn't want to lose on the other drives/partitions. Then its no problem if you have to reinstall windows, 2 hours and your back to a fresh install without losing anything. Just have to reinstall your software.
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I got into this type of stuff last year when I was thinking about throwing caution to the wind. From what I remember I thought "optimal r" (i think thats what it was called?) was better than kelly.
This thread on elite though seemed to have the best money management strategy if you knew what your systems expectancy was:
System Development with acrary
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=33654
Here is a text with all the replies stripped out. Someday I would like to get through this but its pretty hard. Easily the best thing I've ever read on elite though.
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Hey Dogpile, I just watched that video you have on youtube again. I really didn't know enough about market profile the first time to get it. Those were great examples with the triangles to play a breakout from a balancing market. You should put that up here and do one on coils.
I really don't get the whole idea of coils and you obviously use them a ton.
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well the after/overnight market killed that one. seems like there has been some very nice trends there lately.
interesting to see if this sets up a trend day, trend day high seems kind of extreme if this hold though.
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ahh man, that volume distribution sucks. Had my price levels set right at no volume. .5 too high on both sides. Fading the high $tick at 10:50 at 1554.5 would have worked perfectly but I was waiting for 1550. Looking for the same setup again at 1554.5 but won't play a breakout if it occurs above that. Hopefully things pick up after lunch.
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Yea its pretty insane. They decided 2 weeks ago to not release on a label and do it themselves. You can either buy this huge box set with artwork, cd, 2 LPs, extra new songs for 80 bucks.. Or digital download that you pay whatever you want....heh. The digital order download page has a blank field that you entire your own price in euros...Its genious in this age of piracy.
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Sounds pretty cool on myspace, I will have to check her out.
Did you see radiohead just stuck a knife in the heart of the music industry?
can't wait until next week. The live version of nude is so incredibly good.
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Totally agree. I don't even see the point in funds any more.
You can either index yourself(almost globally index yourself) or play entire sectors if you want more risk, cheaper. Or pay more and have some money manager blow most your profits.
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change to opera once you have everything fixed up
The only time I ever open IE is after I reinstall to download the latest opera version. Haven't had any popup or spyware issues in years.
James, If you haven't updated opera in awhile and don't have the speed dial, check out the newest version. This speed dial startup page thing totally rocks.
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Dogpile, I looked at that thread with getting stopped out yesterday very quickly...I didn't realize that had just happend to you. That was BRUTAL.
I was just looking to take a long at 48 but it bounced off much to fast. 4th time we bounced off that but $tick was pretty neutral that time. I'm only looking to fade $tick extremes going the other way at 48 and 55, or go with direction if we break 48 short.
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sweet overnight trade dogpile.
I didn't even bother watching things much today, started painting my house..
Totally no clue on this type of day yet. Although now in retrospect it looks like we just started auctioning into a lower bracket than yesterday.
Maybe with that volume distribution the last 2 days a long if we get down to the 1546/7 area might be nice if it can't break it.
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http://computer.howstuffworks.com/build-a-computer.htm
Really, a book would be like 20 pages long. You don't even really have to worry about the cables because the harddrive will come with the cables, the powersupply will come with cables. All the parts come with directions themselves too.
I think the biggest issue you would want to look into is finding out what kind of graphics card/cards you have and just makes sure there are no conflicts with the motherboard you would buy. Beyond that its really more a price issue. I've had good luck with ENERMAX power supplies and Crucial memory, so thats what I would go with.
you could probly learn everything you need by surfing around the forums at toms hardware. audioforums.com in the pc hardware section might be helpfull too as it wont be all gaming type machines.
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ahh, this is what my next computer will look like. its like its a brain/alive.
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I don't think its really possible to build a laptop. im not really sure why, I dont know if it has to do with the keyboard/mouse or whatever.
if you really wanted to practice before building you could probly go to a computer shop and get some old celeron based machine for 20 bucks, take it apart and put it back togather.
even memory now is so cheap I see you don't have to worry about skimping. I always get crucial memory and its 100 bucks for 2 gigs.
Just looking quick on new egg its still about 600 bucks to build a sick machine(that price seems constant, just the specs get better over time), then depends what you want to spend on a case. The only thing is i think i might wait until the 3.0ghz duo 2s come down to the less than 200 range. 180-200 always seems to be the deal area for bang for the buck cpu wise. duo core 2 3ghz has to be absurdly fast.
the most important thing is to get a cool case
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I wouldn't waste your time with a class. Like I said once you decide to do it you will laugh at how easy it is. Even calling it "building" a computer is probly insulting to people who really build stuff. I'm not even sure what they would teach at a class, the biggest part is how to use a screw driver.
Basically you snap the CPU, RAM, video card, audio card into the motherboard, screw the board into the case. screw the hard drive, dvd drive into the case, plug them into the board and install...
If you buy the top quality parts there isn't much that can go wrong and it will be a much better computer since makers are going to skimp on the quality of parts they can't market. You can also salvage parts too if the system dies or you upgrade. I think my power supply is 7 years old now.
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nice, i just sold my bullion this afternoon, first investment i made 2 years ago.
Are you holding this position for awhile? Feels like one of those 10% down blast days should be coming any day now after this.