Most of the traders that got very rich did so by trading either other peoples money and taking a cut or where able to borrow larger amounts from...
Skip the backtesting and focus on forward testing. As others have pointed out there is no central market for FX, pricing at every broker is unique...
In my humble opinion higher abstract level languages like Java, C#, Scala, etc is to bloated for any low latency work. Abstraction add...
1% risk per trade does't work. I make 20 swing trades in one year, 40% percent is losers and the rest is winners. so I end up with 8 losers of...
Anyone else seen this behavior then receiving tick data using their recMktData subscription function call? I use the Posix C++ API. SPY today,...
Buy The Fucking Dip, that is my egde. The trick is to know then to BTFD. Research & Development, Trial & Error. 12 years of experience trading...
I dont understand, cant compute "too much money". Price tag of a private island in the Caribbean with a nice house on it? Your own super...
Maybe it was direct routed orders to another exchange than your order was placed. If if your sell is at ISLAND at 3.90 and ask is 3.92 at NYSE...
Short term trades 1-5 days in duration. Day trading, no overnight exposure Swing trading, a few days of exposure Position trading, riding...
If someone ask why not say "Asset Manager" or "Hedgefund Manager" as what we do is basically running a private incubator sized hedgefund. We are...
If you combine system you get the mean of the systems, both then it comes to returns and probability outcome. You can never get a higher score...
Freedom to live my life as I wish and a good future for my kids. 1) Not being forced to work to get money (ie. rat race), freedom to chose what...
Prepare to put in 5-7 years of hard work and 50-150k in cumulative losses before you make any consistent money. Staying many years under water...
Wish I did know a cronic loser who could take 5 grand to 25 bucks. 1. Start with $100,000 2. Give him $5000 to trade for you in the futures...
That will make you 25% compounded in a year. Pretty lousy to be day trading with that high turnover of capital. Commissions and negative...
US Treasury is basically borrowing money for free. The foreign lenders belive they make a 1-1.5% return on the 10y/30y bonds, but in reality they...
Everyone has to pay their dues, for some it comes earlier, for some later.
Amen.
Well thats an oxymoron. Daytrading is never overnight and swing is always overnight, if not hitting the ET or SL during the first day.
Most Linux distributions has a GUI, and there are plenty of ways to access it remotely. VNC, NX, XDMCP, X-over-SSH or even RDP is available. As...
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