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  1. CNBC Fiasco: How to rig a $1M contest

    CNBC's Easy Money He made it into the group of 20 finalists, but in mid-May, as the last round of trading opened, he noticed an unusual pattern in the picks of other contestants. One trader had a stream of near-perfect picks, consistently placing huge bets on shares that soared in after-hours...
  2. Fibonacci Retracements by Christian Lemp

    This works if you have access to detailed market information, and varies heavily per market. It may be possible to do this in the US stock market. In the US markets, you can get accurate volume information, as well as spy on some of the ECNs to gauge pending orders. In Forex, the top tier...
  3. Mike's Intro and Profile

    Wow Andy you really took that personally. I was only offering my opinion. I wanted to encourage Mike to feel good about his achievements given his current test scores. Plus, I was kinda joking about the Baruch admissions thing. Hence the wink. :)
  4. Mike's Intro and Profile

    Just thought I would throw in my 2c here Mike. I am not applying to the Baruch program at any point; I am an independent trader who hangs around to sharpen my skills. I took the GRE 3 years ago to apply to graduate school (for Computer Engineering). I am almost done actually, with only a few...
  5. Programming wisdom

    After writing software for the last 12 years, those lists are spot on. The funny thing is that you can't really learn this by hearing it; you need to experience it for most of that to make sense. ;)
  6. New Quantnet members say hi

    I will be happy to. I am under some tight constraints this week with my thesis, so it will have to get put off until the weekend, or after. I will get around to it for sure. Forex is a complicated subject, mostly because the market dynamics are little different from stocks and derivatives...
  7. 2007 Interactive Brokers Collegiate Trading Olympiad

    This behavior is completely common. I have seen this in every trading contest ever offered. The problem with virtual trading contests is that it rewards users who take large risks at the very beginning. If you reason about the logic of this, it makes sense. The best way to propel oneself to...
  8. New Quantnet members say hi

    Thanks Andy, I was hoping you would reply. :) You are indeed fortunate if you worked at Watson research center. That is a hard place to get into lately. IBM is spending less and less on research on the whole, and there are fewer opportunities to work there. I worked in the Microelectronics...
  9. Forex

    I can give you my overview. I trade Forex. NFP is significant because it indicates, in a rough sort of way, how much buying power consumers of a particular nation have. Higher wages mean people can spend more for consumer goods. This is important, because the US imports nearly all of its...
  10. New Quantnet members say hi

    Hello all Hi Quantnet members. I am an independent quant trader, and I found this forum during a search. I have been trading Forex for about 2.5 years, and I am looking for people to bounce ideas off of. I am hoping I can get some useful feedback regarding some statistical and physics-based...
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