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The sync conflicts are certainly not a usual thing to happen if no change has happened on either side.

Also the modal UI blocks only the one sync queue - i.e. the one for contacts & calendars in that account. All other accounts including mails for that same account should continue syncing.

I'd love to help you with those issues - you can contact me at grafnetr@emclient.com


Same with Windows Defender.


The specs site mentions resolution of 0.82 meters panchromatic - would that be per pixel? And if so, how come the images at Google Maps have higher resolution?


Google uses a variety of data sets, including regular aerial photography and multiple remote sensing products. If houses and cars look sharp at the highest zoom, you're probably looking at aerial photography.


Exactly, and the plane's image contains small objects above that resolution threshold, so it seems that is wasn't taken by the Ikonos system.


I started using the site and getting back also confused me - but apparently hitting Back button helps :) But some in-page way to go back wouldn't hurt.


The high frequency trading is a term used to denote automated trading in intervals of tenths to hundredths of second, in volumes of even hundreds to millions $ in one transaction, so that is not something an individual would do. Automated trading by itself is of course feasible for almost anyone determined enough.


Automated trading by itself is of course feasible for almost anyone determined enough.

...as well as a healthy bankroll to start with. If you can't maintain at least $25,000 in your trading account, you can't day-trade anything but currencies, so you can't really bootstrap from nothing. And if you don't have a lot more money than that to play with, you're never going to make enough to replace a salary. Even if you're actually able to beat the market.

Which brings me to: don't underestimate the market. That doesn't mean it's efficient, but it's very difficult to beat it by a large margin or without considerable risk. A 51/49 edge can be very good if you can get enough trades that offer those odds (forgive my putting it in those terms, I know it's not completely accurate), but that's still going to mean that you can have huge swings either way, even over a large number of trades.

And please, please, PLEASE don't assume that because something worked on historical data it will necessarily work in the live market. There are so many ways to arrive at faulty conclusions here, not the least of which is bad data or analysis (no, your vanilla backprop network is not predicting daily S&P 500 returns, even if it looks like it when you compare it to the training data...), so even if you've got a rock solid strategy that you're sure will continue to work, make sure you could actually make the trades before you get too excited. Don't assume highs, lows, or opens mean anything, pretty much ever, because weird trades that you couldn't have made sometimes show up in those. If you can, deal with bid/ask data (tick by tick, ideally) instead, and make sure the things you want to trade are actually there long enough to get them given your latency.

Needless to say, use a decent broker that charges low fees and lets you have programmatic access to their trading platform. Most fail on both counts, so beware.


Most fail on both counts, so beware.

Potential startup? I have no idea if it's feasible, genuinely curious though.


Yes, "Automatic trading" may be the more appropriate term in my post.


Oops, sorry :) I tried to search, but didn't find it.


A direct link to the video illustrating the process http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOmzjImsVc


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