>>Did you do any backtest before trading? Nah, I figured I'm going to wing it ;) (joking) Since I travel so much I religiously backtest,...
Week going from terrible to f...ing worse. Sitting @ the airport right now in Texas after a long trip, watching the futures down again. Will hit...
Nice job !!! I'd look @ them on collective2 if you'll post them ;) follow my progress @...
Here's my experience with a similar approach. As soon as I forward test a significant amount of time (e.g. 1 month for day trades or 6 month...
Terrible trading week with an OK Friday (down almost 1400 for this week). My systems lost money three out of five days. I did some discretionary...
Terrible performance today. WTF. I've had to put another 15k into my IB account today since I exceeded my portfolio margin limit and dropped below...
Frosty, back from your sabbatical? I miss your journal !!! Follow my trading progress @...
Had a bad day today, down almost 1k. Ironically the S&P 500 performance was even worse, so I took the lead for a short period of time ;-) Here...
I once used a trading system that generated that behavior a lot. If I remember correctly, here's the setup that caused the error. I have a...
Not sure what changed @ Interactive Brokers, but I can check my IB account balance before noon Eastern time on Sundays, quite the surprise....
I don't store tickdata but if I would I'd store it in SQL. I store 800 million quotes in mysql (daily, weekly and 15 second quotes) and run...
Ouch, just got back from my trip and couldn't log into IB in time to get my balance :( Oh well, I'll have to wait for Sunday to post this...
Well I guess I was ahead for a single day ;-) today the S&P 500 kicked my butt again. I withdrew some money from my trading account this morning,...
Wow, for once I'm actually ahead. After Friday's post I thought I'll be behind the S&P 500 performance like I was during the last 9 month leading...
Small up week (almost 600 bucks). Let's start out with the good things. The best thing right now is that I'm trading so small that I don't lose...
Ouch is all I can say. One strategy went long BP this week and that one will hurt my weekly results :(. Also got a long signal on AMZN and XOM...
Check out the May issue of the Stock/Futures/Options magazine. The guy trades index gaps and has a couple of resources on his website....
Unfortunately I don't have an edge in high frequency trading, so my strategies are not focused on minute or seconds based profits. I'm not sure...
Unfortunately the most profitable attempt was specific to the market at that time. It was my first dabbling into investing and pretty much a buy &...
Quite the day/week to start my online journal. This is my fourth attempt to make money in the market (one was very successful, one sucked big...
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