I've a day job so I run unattended during the day (no backup, no 2nd computer checking my first one). However unattended may need some further...
Decent trading week (up 1k7). Survived my computer failure while in Europe ;-) so I'm happy that things are back to normal. Trading was ok, all...
I got back from Europe (vacation) on Tuesday (late @ night). Wednesday I had to leave town for work already. So today I'm sitting @ the airport...
Can you open an account with both? I use both and exclusively trade options. TOS has the superior platform without doubts. When it comes to...
Good trading week (up 4k). I'm still in Europe on vacation. I'll get back to the states on Tuesday. Long story short, I'm still a little worried...
Ouch. When things can go wrong, they usually do. My trading station worked well on Monday (no issues from Europe) but today I couldn't log into...
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=shortableStocks may get you started. It doesn't have all stocks but at least a good amount (> 10k...
You are correct, point taken. Most of my algo code focuses on execution and risk control, but even the risk control looked bad on May 6th.
Here's some explanation S1: 1085 = Net Profit of Strategy S1 since I started this thread S2: -300 = Net Profit of Strategy S2 since I started...
Decent trading week (up 2600 bucks). Crazy week at work though, working my butt off on the East Coast. There are some new exciting developments in...
Pete, thanks for the post. I appreciate the suggestion and will read up on this. P&L plays a role as you've pointed out. So does sharpe and max...
My systems had two good trading days, so at least for today I'm ahead of the S&P and the checking account performance!!!! It's good when you get...
Breakeven trading week (up 53 bucks). Very busy work week with long days and little chance to check my systems. They seemed to have done OK but...
Just got to my hotel in San Jose. I've had a great time the last three hours. After I landed I went to the bay101 and played some poker. I rarely...
Hard trading week. Up 1k but I watched all positions go into my direction after being stopped out on many of them last Friday. Ouch :( But then...
Fixed my calculation error, here the the current results (based on last Friday's close) S1: 1035 S2: 0 S10: -4180 S12: -611 Weekly...
Finally had time to get last weeks results written up. Terrible trading week, down 3k9 as mentioned before. I'm not going into much detail other...
Neke, following your journal it seems the answer is almost obvious. If you look at your biggest losing weeks and classify them as "outliers"...
This post is dedicated to Messi's superior soccer skills and the impact of psychology. Argentina, I love the way you guys play soccer !!!!...
One more follow up to this mornings post. Today is a good example where my algos were not market correlated. S 10 was breakeven. Overall I...
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