Recent Content by JoeAnonymous

  1. How best to avoid slippage when automating?

    I traded ES (well, MES) on IB's paper trading platform using their API. For testing of algorithms, I went with market orders. The spread is very...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, Mar 25, 2021 in forum: Automated Trading

  2. Hong Kong indexes no longer available for trading?

    I have the HK trading permissions on my IB account, but I do not use them. Last week I think, I got an update requiring me to re-certify my...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, Mar 25, 2021 in forum: Trading

  3. Starting out NOW

    Hello Guys, That quantstrat strategy rode for a year or more at which point I decided I could not reconcile live behavior with backtesting. I did...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, Mar 25, 2021 in forum: Professional Trading

  4. Starting out NOW

    Alright I am still trading on this, but not much movement. I am up like 700USD or something since I started.
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, Sep 11, 2016 in forum: Professional Trading

  5. Starting out NOW

    Alright so a while ago I entered market at about 22K USD. I was not seeing much movement because any upward momentum was being negated by...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, Jun 26, 2016 in forum: Professional Trading

  6. Starting out NOW

    No updates really.......... this is getting boring. I am like plus 20USD. Of course if I disregard transaction costs (50+ transactions) I am up by...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, Jun 8, 2016 in forum: Professional Trading

  7. Best Country for Trading (Tax efficiency)

    Hm that is interesting. I found this as well:...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, May 30, 2016 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  8. Best Country for Trading (Tax efficiency)

    Well, I am more confused than most here about tax haha! I just started trading some stock this year and I have a broker in the US. I wired money...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, May 30, 2016 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  9. Best Country for Trading (Tax efficiency)

    So.. I am Dutch maybe I should move back to Holland? I live in Taiwan and I pay tax in Taiwan. I just started trading some stock this year. How...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, May 29, 2016 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  10. Starting out NOW

    IB pointed me to a video about how to create a bracket order using an OCA group and that works, except when submitting the SELL LMT part of it I...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, May 29, 2016 in forum: Professional Trading

  11. Easy Language a Good Place to Start?

    C# is for Windows mostly somebody correct me if I am wrong. But take Interactive Brokers for example. They have a slew of programming languages...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, May 27, 2016 in forum: Automated Trading

  12. Starting out NOW

    Wow so much stuff going on I feel. I managed to get my backtesting software in sync by manually entering trades as they occured in real life. That...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, May 27, 2016 in forum: Professional Trading

  13. Interactive Brokers - Can you create bracket orders for an open position?

    Hello I am sorry to revive a dead thread, but how would one go about this if one were unable to "short" stock ? My account hasn't been enabled to...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, May 26, 2016 in forum: Retail Brokers

  14. Buying a Trading System/Indicators

    Well let's make some assumptions: 1. There is a superior system called system X with high annual results low drawdowns, good sharpe ratio and...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, May 26, 2016 in forum: Trading

  15. What do you all use for sim trading?

    I used IB paper trading previously. However I found when doing LMT buys I was always being filled at the LMT on the demo account, no matter how...
    Post by: JoeAnonymous, May 26, 2016 in forum: Trading Software