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- Mon Jan 12, 2004 12:21 am
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Black Swans
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15374
- Sun Jan 11, 2004 10:40 am
- Forum: Custom C++ or Java Platforms
- Topic: VB.net Programming and Custom Software design
- Replies: 16
- Views: 30891
Having dealt with all this for years, raw binary data files rule when it comes to speed. Reading text files can be reasonably fast, but all that field splitting, qualifying, and parsing to native binary formats does take processing time. (It's most neglible until you start reading heaps of data in.)...
- Sun Jan 11, 2004 12:27 am
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Black Swans
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15374
If you are really concerned, don't trade futures, trade stocks without leverage, there's no chance of completely blowing out doing that. You won't make the same level of returns however. I agree with this, but even without leverage, stock trading has it's catastrophic events that can do serious dam...