This is absurd. The reason to go for a degree with a quantitative focus is because its much more enjoyable to read philosophy and psychology on...
Poor money management can make a system with positive expectation a loser but no money management system can make a system with negative...
I think you run into a nightmare pretty quick trying to add liquidity no matter what the matching engine just from a data management stand point...
Then forget trading and dollar cost average the index discretionary wise if you believe this because in your head you have setup a false dichotomy...
Your not going to get into a hedge fund with a BA in anthro without any connections. Even then you would probably need to have your childhood...
The thread title implies no additional income stream besides for trading. Even an over leveraged system that returned 100% a year on 25k would...
yep...anyone who says less than 500k is simply delusional and not really a professional anyway... Running good for a year on 50k does not mean...
Its just dot bomb 2.0 thinking... Business is business. The only real benefit anyone is getting business wise from these "new media" is...
I wouldn't consider poking around in people's rotting mouths a license to print money..More like being properly compensated for a job that that a...
Using 5 min candles on a system going for 5 ticks isn't much different than using daily data on an hourly trading system. It doesn't make sense to...
Going from 0 to $40,000,000 in a few years is total fantasy land. I would certainly not cut the guy in as a 50/50 partner for the life of the...
lol...yea honestly I would be embarrassed to tell someone in person I even read this board.
I would really like the feature of being able to ignore every post based on a certain join date.
If you want to trade your own money stay away from finance as a career. In general with any of these jobs you won't be able to trade without going...
This is the best advice so far. Get a part time job and put money in your account at regular intervals to smoothe your equity curve and grow the...
Great blog dtrader, look forward to a tutorial on SVM...Would love for that instant enlightment to happen to me.
if you missed the sarcasm in this post, this is pretty much how it is for two institutional fx guys I know. Work quite long hours but are well...
No way this will pass. Just grandstanding... The market would crash the day before this went to a vote and no one would be dumb enough to vote...
Well first I will give in and admit it..im a 2 bit pirate out 100% for myself. I care not at all about what anyone else thinks about TA or...
Naa, it hasn't even started yet.. Dtrader, I've wanted to bang heads with you for awhile, touche... Before this turns into a circle jerk with...
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