bs. what firm is this? are you in chicago?
you're salaried trader at a prop firm and you're allowed to swing 20 lot directional plays?
use options to construct a spread so you have better odds
i know strategies that are profitable everyday but 1-3 million per day? there's only a few firms that could have done that and they had to pay...
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=250522
isnt a position only one side anyway
you know people that went from poker to trading? i only know people that went the other way. backgammon and bridge to trading options I have heard...
i prefer it to not move at all
connect to a data feed and orders API (ie. interactive brokers) subscribe to data add magic algo place orders
here with percent
like this?
CL options. fairly delta neutral. holding period is weeks
ok. I dont know if the "chi" in your name means Chicago but it is/was a common startegy around here. maybe you are a market wizard
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you used to be able to see last trade size and compare it to what was shown in the dom. so if the bid was 89.29 for 5 and you saw 14@89.29 trade...
here. be a beta tester.
I publish all messages over rabbitmq. You dont need it but it makes things easier as you scale up. python is used as parts of the webpage
created own instead +1000
http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/understanding-etfetn-decay/597736
http://pandas.pydata.org/ import pandas as pd from pandas.io.data import DataReader symbols = ['FCX','XLE','XME'] data = dict((sym,...
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