Made $2400 on a $10000 account in the last quarter trading options, discretionary. This is the first time I started trading with real money. IB...
That is unfortunately a good way to put it.
IB's PortfolioAnalyst's Detailed PDF report's "Risk Measures" section tells me that for the last quarter, my Sharpe is 2.34 (good!), Sortino is...
Yes, I regularly see fake / pushed "Letters to the Editor" in the SCMP (South China Morning Post, a newspaper) which beat the drum about how the...
-- Uh, posting on ET (, masquerading to be normal and friendly,) enquiring as to how the prey manages to discover him, so that they become more...
The leg that's making money is the alpha leg, and the other one(s) are totally beta :p (alpha, beta as in -male, in case you didn't get the joke)....
bwolinksy, you're lucky that sle is even debating you. To post so much without being able to figure out which ET user is a pro and which one is...
I suspect we will see a sudden thrust upwards, SPX to 1290 or even 1300, soon. OTM options are your friend right now. Edit : To answer the OP's...
Sorry for the late reply! I didn't see this reply till today! I primarily use : - Subclipse + SVNKit for repository access - JUnit, though...
You are either not facing up to the secret burdensome thoughts that are causing the stress, or are just doing too many things, and hence the...
+1 for the solid productivity-friendly advice!
Giddyup, Initially learn a scripting language : python or R. Initially avoid Java, C++ and C#. Why : for the sheer pleasure of being able to...
+1. Adding to that: Jobs responded to the Foxconn story with a blatant lie that, "Foxconn is not a sweatshop". Around this time, Foxconn put...
Basically, if you observe the profit vs. loss of the Iron Condors he's setting up, such as this one :...
Eclipse, because of it's Marketplace : a plug-in probably exists for every dev problem you need to tackle. The Marketplace is what has elevated...
Trust me (and dtrader98, and 100s of other actual folks who use R for trading) : you gave up too soon. Check out http://www.quantmod.com for the...
Nitro, I believe you will find a kindred spirit in Jiddu (and U.G., too, but later). Do try to read this if and when time permits:...
Please don't try to hack around the keylogger. Big banks / big corps' IT security is not that dumb. You will be caught. Take the smartphone...
Buying "high end" is probably not a good idea if you really want to reduce eye strain. @see http://www.pixelqi.com/, for "low end" stuff that will...
Because many people find it unbearable to read a book; they'd rather watch a movie. They lead entire lives which are characterized by the careful...
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