Recent Content by Stoxtrader

  1. R vs MATLAB

    Any of the available options have their strengths and weaknesses. The nice charts and graphs from R are no fluke. R is extremely good at...
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Aug 28, 2012 in forum: App Development

  2. Where do I hire a programmer to create or help me set up a system for analysis?

    I've seen it advised to hire three programmers from an online site such as Guru, and give them all a simple task that should take no more than 4...
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Aug 18, 2012 in forum: App Development

  3. fastest Way to Lose Money Day Trading List

    Not having a stop loss. That is, when trend trading, assuming overall market volatility hasn't jumped, odds are when your stop loss gets hit then...
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Aug 10, 2012 in forum: Trading

  4. R vs MATLAB

    I'm not sure about MATLAB, but R can call C++ functions. So, for example, some libraries in R are already written in C/C++ with an R wrapper....
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Aug 2, 2012 in forum: App Development

  5. Shorting Stocks - (newbie question)

    Aha. Searching for "easy to borrow" brings up this, a blog post implying that Thinkorswim is a good broker/platform for shorting....
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Aug 1, 2012 in forum: Trading

  6. Shorting Stocks - (newbie question)

    FinViz keeps a list of "shortable" stocks, but like IB I think the list will never be realtime updated. Does *any* broker or other service...
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Aug 1, 2012 in forum: Trading

  7. R vs MATLAB

    I use Excel/VBA, R, and Postgresql for backtesting. How are you storing your data? In Excel only? I strongly recommend a database (MySQL,...
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Jul 29, 2012 in forum: App Development

  8. How to build a 16TB box for less than $5000

    Higher end ("enterprise") drives should last longer, or at least have a better warranty. And higher end RAID cards would save the drives, of...
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Jul 27, 2012 in forum: Hardware

  9. Looking for a good off-the-shelf screener I can supplement with lots of code

    Rocko, I'm curious if you decided on screening/backtesting software. The requirement to run locally, on local pre-existing data, seems hard to...
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Jun 29, 2012 in forum: App Development

  10. Looking for a good off-the-shelf screener I can supplement with lots of code

    Confusingly there are two applications named OpenQuant: C# and VB.NET http://www.smartquant.com/openquant.php Groovy and Java...
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Jun 20, 2012 in forum: App Development

  11. Looking for a good off-the-shelf screener I can supplement with lots of code

    > I'd rather not again waste time writing UI code, for example. Do you need a UI though? Or is a text interface acceptable? > 3. Flexible...
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Jun 20, 2012 in forum: App Development

  12. Sharpe Ratio - Monthly or Annual??

    A rule of thumb is to have a sample size of at least 30, in order for the backtest to be somewhat predictive of future results. So monthly...
    Post by: Stoxtrader, May 23, 2012 in forum: Automated Trading

  13. Lightweight threads

    Um. Yes. More details are needed here. Why does the strategy require a large number of cores/threads? What are the time constraints? What hardware...
    Post by: Stoxtrader, May 5, 2012 in forum: App Development

  14. Constructing an econometric model

    The difficulty is the word "isolates". There are many variables that determine house prices, most likely including nonlinear relationships and...
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Apr 9, 2012 in forum: Technical Analysis

  15. Constructing an econometric model

    https://www.google.com/search?q=econometric+model+house+price
    Post by: Stoxtrader, Apr 8, 2012 in forum: Technical Analysis