The margin should be for buys - the whole premium and for sells 100 - the premium. (your maximum loss) The FRO up option at a strike of 20...
Yes I am interesed in this.
There is a book written in 1966 about a guy who did this. It is called WIPED OUT....
Yes I have used them , they are legit. They used to accept netteller deposits but it look like they dont now. I would not use them for the...
I am also from Calgary. Would be interested in getting together and sharing some thoughts. They got it going in Vancouver.
I have to agree with you about giving a person a system that works and then seeing that person lose money. This was the case many times in my...
Chopper77 "Is this viable these days? A lot of guys I know are just getting started playing cards because it's the newest fad or whatever, and...
Hello Serge, Will your firm accept Canadain Accounts?
Yes. I have tested a program called Metaserver RT that interfaces metastock pro woth the IB data feeed. see http://www.traderssoft.com/ for...
From the look of this chart it looks like the US Dollar Index is a buy. Time will tell.
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... onm the QQQ and IWN (russel) SPY and DIA hav not given sell signals yet QQQ Chart attached
Here is a spreadsheet I use with all the calculations for the sharpe ratio. You need 12 months of data to get started. Just plug in your own...
Hope you like it in Calgary. There are a few of us elite traders here but we havn't got togeter like the guys in Vancouver and TO. Maybee soon.
My choice is www.interactivebrokers.ca . There are others, QuestTrade, Trade Freedom to name a couple. I use IB. If you are daytrading make...
True the margins ar lower for intra-day. What your broker asks for margin doesn't affect the riskiness of your system. They could lower the margin...
The drawdown is an maximum amount your account eqiuty declines from a high point before rising to a new high point. In this example you would...
I guess I missed that. The 10.00 per day was an estimate of the dat feed costs. The 10000 was an estimate of the amount you would need per...
I don't think 2 ES points a day is easy but it is probably an achievable benchmark. Turns out this was the number I had in mind when looking at...
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