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    Historical Volatility calculation

    I did find this link showing the calculations i want to do. If you look at the code they use the numbr 7.2111 and that is my question. What is this number and why do they use that number? http://forum.esignalcentral.com/showthread.php?threadid=31823
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    Historical Volatility calculation

    When calculating historical volatility (HV) the last step is to multiply the standard deviation be the square root of the time interval between price changes. What would i do in this step if im looking at daily data and have used the closing price for the last 10days and now want to calculate...
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    LOST pages in "Day Trading With Short Term Price Patterns and Opening Range Breakout"

    Yes i also have it in PDF, could you plz check and see if you are missing the same pages as i am? ---- As for buying it is almost impossible to get a hold of in USA and even more so in Sweden, fond some on ebay that are selling for 1200USD so no, im not likely to buy it.
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    LOST pages in "Day Trading With Short Term Price Patterns and Opening Range Breakout"

    LOST pages in "Day Trading With Short Term Price Patterns and Opening Range Breakout" This seems to be the only copy online and it is missing lots of pages. If anyone has a real copy of this book it would be great if they could say if there is anything important missing. The pages missing are...
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    E-Ratio

    It do not care what market it is on, it only test a system but if you run the system on different market and on different stocks etc each will have a different ATR and that will make to results wrong. By eleminating the ATR you will be able to see how the system does in a pure form. Make the...
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    E-Ratio

    All it does is that it checks if the favorable move is often bigger then the non favorable move. Then is uses ATR to filter out volatility so that you can compare different markets with the same formula.
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    E-Ratio from the Turtles

    Just read the chapeter in WOTT on the Edge-Ratio. I love the idee but then again as always how useful is using past data to detarmaning future profits, it is always arguably. Do you know anywhere where the E-Ratio has been used and tested as an indicatior for backtesting professional systems? I...
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    Taleb On Risk - best book

    Hmm i understod it as it is has a lot of money management ides regarding leverage trading? If this is not the subject of the book then what should i reed? There are so my different theories reagaring risk management in trading my head just explodes when i try to penetrate the subject. There are...
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    Taleb On Risk - best book

    Has anyone read Dynamic Hedging (link below) and can recomend this for an ordinary CFD trader? I have always liked Taled but i am unsure if this book is only aimed at big funds and not a trader? Amazon.com: Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options (Wiley Finance): Nassim Nicholas...
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    Why trade non CFD???

    Why would anyone want to trade direct and not use a DMA CFD brokerage instead? I have been reading about CFDs but what i can find there are only benefits by trading CFD direct. Especially if you are from a country like Sweden where Shorting on the OMX is a bitch. Please clear this up for me...
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    Question for professional traders - Van Tharps Institute

    Thanks for the honest answer :) So what mentors are you suggesting?
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    Question for professional traders - Van Tharps Institute

    I have the last 24month been reading about the market and have developed a huge interest in it. My next step i feel would be to start to make up some of my own strategies for how to trade it and was now wondering what is the best way to do this. I have been reading lots of Van Tharps works and i...
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    Books on property investment

    No i have no insight in to the property world that is why i need some books to guide to me to asking the correct questions :)
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    Books on property investment

    The woot?
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    Books on property investment

    This is a brand new area for me that i would love to get into. I have one apartment in one of Sweden's top vacation areas and one apartment in a major city that i am thinking about buying. I was now wondering what book i should read so that i do not fall into any traps since im new to this...
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