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Originally posted by madhattared I'm a computer scientist by trade with a strong interest in finance. I'm going to be participating in a competition to come up with a real time trading strategy next semester. First place is 50,000$ i was curious if anyone trades stocks bonds or options and what your strategies are and what secuirities you actually own. I currently own a bunch of stocks and options for my Investments class and the last 5 weeks of trading have been pretty mucho sucko. anyways heres the link if anyones interested. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/e...ingOlympiad.php

Buy low, sell high.

Short high, cover low.

Bitch at NITE's market makers if you're watching on Level 2

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Originally posted by Gmoney part II I could tell you what to do but you my advice costs money. Which is the first lesson you should learn : There is no free lunch in this world.

more like

"Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know." but thats not what i was getting at

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Originally posted by Trancer-X Buy low, sell high. Short high, cover low.

i wish it were that simple

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Originally posted by madhattared i wish it were that simple

Believe it... it is

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heh. not always. it is, however, the core idealship of the market. i agree on that part.

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Originally posted by Ner0 Believe it... it is

it implies you can predict the future. and i'm doubful you can, atleast in the short term. i'm sure if you wait long enough you probably will get a return on your investment, although probably not a sizeable one. the contest is in the short term so a trading strategy for 10 weeks is ideal

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In the beginning there was Jack. And Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And while one day viciously throwing down on his box Jack boldly declared "Let there be house!" And house music was born. I am the creator and this is my house and in my house there is only house music. But I am not so selfish because once you enter my house it then becomes our house and our house music and you see no one man owns house because house music is a universal language spoke and understood by all. You see, house is a feeling that no one can understand really unless you're deep into the vibe of house. House is an uncontrollable desire to jack your body and as I told you before this is our house and our house music. In every house you understand, there is a keeper and in this house the keeper is Jack.

Last edited by madhattared on Oct-15-2005 at 15:07

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Originally posted by DJ_Lord heh. not always. it is, however, the core idealship of the market. i agree on that part.

thats what I mean.. its what it all comes down to

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Last edited by colibri on Oct-28-2005 at 13:51

good luck with this. if you've only got 10 weeks you're gonna have to play the momentum game. unfortunately, everyone's playing that game right now.... what kind of data are you going to be feeding into your system? is it going to be streaming?

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Originally posted by colibri

i likey

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Originally posted by Choobak good luck with this. if you've only got 10 weeks you're gonna have to play the momentum game. unfortunately, everyone's playing that game right now.... what kind of data are you going to be feeding into your system? is it going to be streaming?

yeah Interactive Brokers has a whole API that i'm going to have to learn to build the trading interface and trading decision tree. however i'm not so sure i'm going to do the momentum game. you're right every one is going to be doing that for such a short period of time for 10 week's. So inorder to beat them i'm going to have to come up with something more efficent and less risky.

the computer will basically be running 24/7 looking at different things in the market. problem is the API requires a windows box =(
so i can't use the linux supercomputers here at school to trade. that'd be sweet cause i'd have a T3 of bandwidth plus a cluster of 16 boxes. so i'm going to try and pic up an athlon x2 for xmas

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In the beginning there was Jack. And Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And while one day viciously throwing down on his box Jack boldly declared "Let there be house!" And house music was born. I am the creator and this is my house and in my house there is only house music. But I am not so selfish because once you enter my house it then becomes our house and our house music and you see no one man owns house because house music is a universal language spoke and understood by all. You see, house is a feeling that no one can understand really unless you're deep into the vibe of house. House is an uncontrollable desire to jack your body and as I told you before this is our house and our house music. In every house you understand, there is a keeper and in this house the keeper is Jack.