Recent Content by Deep Algorithms

  1. My Trend Following System

    I don't think that trend is actually all that well-defined in classical technical analysis (TA), other than being the general direction of a...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, May 12, 2014 in forum: Journals

  2. Is it possible earn 20% a year swing trading stocks.

    Of course. But you're taking what I said out of context. Commodity_Trader implied that compounding returns had something to do with being able...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, May 11, 2014 in forum: Trading

  3. Is it possible earn 20% a year swing trading stocks.

    Not to sound argumentative, but I think I was the one that implied that 20% returns are possible, in response to your comment about Warren...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, May 10, 2014 in forum: Trading

  4. Is it possible earn 20% a year swing trading stocks.

    No, it is not possible. Name one trader who has consistently doubled his/her money every year? Your mention of Warren Buffett is incorrect. His...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, May 10, 2014 in forum: Trading

  5. Is it possible earn 20% a year swing trading stocks.

    This is a good point that is often overlooked. I just wanted to point out some additional information though, because once you consider everything...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, May 9, 2014 in forum: Trading

  6. Why good platforms ignore mac?

    I think the first paragraph of my prior post came out wrong. Some business or economics problems of course involve serious number crunching work,...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, May 8, 2014 in forum: Trading Software

  7. Why good platforms ignore mac?

    Not to sound offensive, but I am not sure that problems in business or economics qualify as "serious number crunching work", which is the point of...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, May 8, 2014 in forum: Trading Software

  8. Why good platforms ignore mac?

    I think the title for this thread should have been along the lines of why Linux/Unix environments are ignored, instead of Macs. In any case, as...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, May 7, 2014 in forum: Trading Software

  9. Backtesting and Realistic Fills for Stocks

    As you have seen firsthand, there is a very real issue of limit orders being filled. The standard way of handling this in backtesting is to set an...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, May 3, 2014 in forum: Strategy Building

  10. recommendation of reputable data feeds for beginner

    IB is still snapshot (either 1s or 5s, I think), so you get condensed ticks. Is this a problem for forex? Maybe, but probably not. I think that...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, Apr 30, 2014 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  11. recommendation of reputable data feeds for beginner

    For currencies, I would recommend that you use your broker's data. If your broker isn't a true ECN, the behavior of the data at the fine-grain...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, Apr 29, 2014 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  12. Trading System Building Learning Curve?

    I have built hundreds (if not thousands) of trading systems, some of them profitable, and concur that simply trying to build a trading system...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, Apr 28, 2014 in forum: Automated Trading

  13. 5 mins and 15 mins charts of 2008

    I am not sure if there is a source of free intraday data that goes back that far. There may be, but I am just not aware of one. There are a...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, Apr 26, 2014 in forum: Automated Trading

  14. Does anyone use R language the link to IB?

    I don't really see R alone as suitable for automated trading. There are a ton of useful statistical, etc. functions (to analyze data), but to try...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, Apr 26, 2014 in forum: Automated Trading

  15. how to get a listing of NYSE&NASDAQ?

    Try: http://eoddata.com/symbols.aspx That will give you currently listed symbols though. If you only want 2013 symbols, you will have to...
    Post by: Deep Algorithms, Apr 19, 2014 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds