@dw31583 thank you for answering and sharing your opinion about Japan.
@_eug_ You can download "activity statements" from account management at IB online. These contain (among others) your trades. The caveat is that...
@dw31583 I am not sure whether Japan is/was on your radar screen. Having recently read this article:...
Paper trading is very useful in debugging trading software (self-developed trading APIs).
@isotope1 1. Have you analysed the value volatility of the "bunch of shares" that you are holding? If that volatility is a lot smaller than the...
Correct about Japanese and gaijin. But there is, in the viewpoint of the Japanese, a gradation in the gaijin category. If you're Caucasian (e.g....
@dw31583 thank you for all your effort and sharing the results of your (probably many) hours of study. It is highly appreciated. Small...
I am not doing any day-trading kind of stuff, but longer term trading. I am scaling in and out of my position, based on GE pricing and an analysis...
There have been similar cases where a Western woman was raped, went to the police and was thrown in jail for having sex outside marriage. The fact...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/interactive-brokers-group-announces-decision-215200044.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw This would be nice for me...
Great, so you already have trading experience, albeit with other instruments. That will certainly be helpful in getting familiar with futures. The...
Maybe it is not the same news feed. https://www.bloomberg.com/enterprise/content-data/event-driven-feeds
Is there a specific reason for you to select commodity futures, and not something else (e.g. stocks, ETFs)? Don't let the pro's discourage you....
I have the impression that you don't do any form of risk management. You seem to throw your entire account value (100 k USD) at one position. And...
@rtorkin What do you mean by "keep track of everything in the portfolio"? What data are you tracking? You mention that you use IB. They have tools...
@learner2007 thank you for answering my question.
Maybe my question was not clear enough. I was not asking about margin accounts, or the interest rate for borrowing money from the broker. I was...
@Mo06 it is as @Overnight mentions: I started at 100% and am now at approximately 135%. Thus 35% gained since I started in October 2016.
Some years ago I lived in Japan and looked for brokers who allowed me to do short-selling of stock. Both IB Japan and a local broker (I forgot the...
Yes, I have read the book (and his website and journal at ET). Then made my own interpretation of the system in java and am running that live. I...
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