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8 Software Applications every Poker Player should Have

By Mark | Published August 27th, 2010

If you play online poker without the proper tools you are leaving money on the table. It is important to keep good records and analyze your game and the game of your opponents. Today on “Poker Friday” I am going to go through the poker software I use on a daily basis. Poker Software Smart…

Forex From Scratch FREE eBook

By Mark | Published August 13th, 2010

Forex From Scratch is an eBook designed to teach prospective currency traders the fundamentals. It is written in an easy to understand language and can be printed and read at your leisure. Essentially the eBook came about due to the volume of email I was getting asking for basic Forex information. I hope to revise…

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated

By Mark | Published August 13th, 2010

It is true I am still living breathing and enjoying life. If you are reading this post in a feed reader you might want to come and checkout the new site layout and design. The image below shows the main page. Site Changes Obviously the theme has been upgraded to make it easier to read…

Mid-Week Links – G20, Politics & Boring Finance Stuff

By Mark | Published June 30th, 2010

Wednesdays are my second favorite day of the working week, with Fridays being my favorite. We have had some rain and some cold winter weather. When I say cold I should qualify that a bit, cold for me is when it is less the 10C or 50F. It has been a slow week so far…

End of Week Links: Python, RBA, Trading & DVDS

By Mark | Published April 9th, 2010

The RBA raised rates again, funny that the RBA putting the brakes on the economy yet government still throwing money away. Must be an election year . Dr.Brett’s Blowup – must read post. OMG, not again The Death of Short-Term Mean-Reversion? Hack the Market goes into detail on a pairs portfolio in Stratbox. Random Roger,…

Weekend Reading, Videos & Links – Rapid Miner, AI, Stats

By Mark | Published March 19th, 2010

This week I have spent most of my time on system building and things are coming along well. The real-time execution engine will take a bit more work. I am still about 6 months from going live. At the moment I am going over the Timothy Sykes trading DVD’s to see if I can automate…

Long Weekend – Drive Safely

By Mark | Published March 5th, 2010

This post has nothing to do with trading, but the video is very powerful and I would encourage you to watch it. I know most of my readers hail from outside Australia and I am not sure if they air such graphic TV commercials over there. In Australia we have a government organisation call the…

The Perfect Workstation for Traders

By Mark | Published February 26th, 2010

via: 8th light blog

Weekend Reading – Some Quant Fin

By Mark | Published February 26th, 2010

Matlab and Rapid Miner Videos Neural Market Trends Rapid Miner video tutorials have resumed. Pairs trading with Matlab. Basic pair’s trading in Matlab youtube video. Short video on GUI creation in Matlab. Monte Carlo methods in Matlab video. Interactively create plots in Matlab video. Importing Excel data files into  Matlab video. Curve fitting in Matlab…

End of Week Links

By Mark | Published November 27th, 2009

Britain’s Pirate finder bill. 60 Free apps we are most thankful for. Why Google wave sucks, And why you will use it anyway. Portfolio.com has an article on Capital Flight. The Kirk Report has some very interesting Mail bag Q&A. (If you are not a member of this site yet you are missing a lot…

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