"bot" may be short for robot. In trading it is just a machine that trades based on an algorithm.
Don't know about currency futures, but it is possible to make the premium, or more, in index futures. To make money on the premium (s&p 500...
Different people may base their percentage return on different things. Some may use % of margin. Others may do it differently. The most realistic...
Schematically, it looks like: 12 volts ----- relay ----- strobe If you think of the relay as a switch that is normally open, then closing...
google for "digital i/o" What you may want is a pci board that can drive a relay. Since that strobe runs on 12 VDC, the 12 volts could be wired...
It looks like the last close was right around the upper channel line. The only other thing that's apparent is that it looks like price price...
Your chart is hard to see, but I think that if you redraw the upper channel line a little (reduce its slope) you'll find that it has closed...
Suppose you take the short only strategy, then the fed announces a surprise rate cut or bin laden is captured? "ibm $99.71 x$99" ??? Why not...
Because the participants don't agree about which straight line it should move on?
Lately the yen/usd has been creeping up -- about 120.5/1. That can be a concern, because at some point I want to repatriate my profits. The dollar...
"It seems like an idiot can do this..." I think so. But you have to know where support and resistance are in the timeframe that you're trading.
Maybe the best solution is to exit at a random time unless either the stop loss or profit target has been reached before the random exit time...
Something that syswizard mentioned about random entries, then exits at fixed profit/loss points got me thinking. Maybe a random bot should exit at...
MGJ: Thanks for the info. I should probably read an intro. statistics book. maxpi: I hope to do more than a random trading bot. That's just a...
syswizard: what I hope for is a trading record for a random bot that I can compare the record of a smart bot, or even my manual trading, against....
Dazuni and kiwi_trader: those are good points about random number generators. Some of them generate the same sequence of numbers, over and over....
MGJ: Suppose the ten estimates are: 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 where a '0' represents N trades that were not profitable and a '1' represents N...
walterjennings: yes, faster is better -- in my opinion. Anyway, here's what I do to run the out-of-the-box API: start the TWS papertrading...
I did try to run the unixmac jar on windows and it does work. jb3: yes, I do programming. Java is new to me, so it is also an opportunity to...
The Java API can be downloaded from http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/control/apicontrol.php?ib_entity= Either the mac or unix file can be...
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