Why do you think yo uneed a wireless router? I got a router in the basement that ties my little backtest grid and all the other computers and...
Depends on your strategy lengths. EOD based strategies will be nice with the first. Try backtesting an intraday strat with the first and you...
THe problem is that NInja makes it hard to coordinate chache sync when you get something like 5+ machines doing backtests. Add to that that for...
It depends on timeframe and automation level. Daily swing trades? You can do 50 charts in an evening doing discretionary trading by rules with...
Depends. Either capital gains in some sort or.... well, if you do that for a living you may WANT to count that as commercial income. I definitely...
That is PT (Perpetual Traveller) status and that is REALLY hard to get right. Sucks - much better to legally base yourself in a low tax country...
Possibly but tricky if you are not living there - you have to set up a corp and everything you take out will be taxed. Being US citizen anyway...
Well, I definitely can rent a server near the CME while I sleep and run my own code from there.
Maybe he is also just staying there for other reasons, like taxes. "Staying in Hong Kong" does not mean "Trading in Hong Kong". I am not sure you...
Incompetence (don't have the capability to code their platform) is not something that the markets care about. If you do not have the capability to...
That is what I meant with stages.This also matches the TPL dataflow idea. But within a stage you are deterministic.
It is multi threading and you seriously overestimate it. We had multi threading in our software, ripped it out in most parts - faster without,...
The problem is more the option part. IIRC both Ninja and Multicharts do not handle option chains. Most end user feeds have no way to deal properly...
Well said, except you make total bullshit out of it in the start. Can you please tell me how you would backtest a swing trade using options in...
Well, you first have to define what HFT is. For the layman that may be strategies that require a computer in the same city (i.e. single digit...
Start with "Fooled by Randomness" - a must have. You will do backtesting, and that will bite you if you dont get an understanding to read the...
That is possible - at the time we decided to dump it, Multicharts was not an option (no C# - changed in the meantime). Point with Ninja is - it...
Your opinion is wrong because out of our experience - "becoming profitable" is quite impossible if (a) you never can trust any result you get from...
Well, I have 2 people here full time working on strategies. In ninja we managed to make 3-4 backtests PER WEEK. we ha d serios problems with...
No, they are not. At least ninja has no order book. That means you executions are hogwash guesses. Stop hits may be well off in thin markets....
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