It's still harder than it sounds mahram, try getting filled in large size on options or even equity before a date. You need to trade equity- often...
try amibroker you can backtest stocks indices and futures. Intraday and EOD. Very cheap to get started and for equites you can use free yahoo or...
Amibroker supports portfolio level backtesting and its very good
http://www.michaelcovel.com/archives/000471.html#more consider something more long-term from the beginning, otherwise you'll just be confused....
Does anyone have good ideas for good short entry / exits for equities?
Do you mean something like this? Close > Ref( MA( Close, 50 ), -1 );
Good points, it can easily turn into a losers game, you might end up pumping crap IPOs to investors in the classifief section of businessweek
The IPO thing sounds like an easy way to get your hands in the cookie jar.
I'm new at Amibroker, and I trade mostly EOD. I'm interested though. Do you use the yahoo group at all Fader?
Based on my little experience so far in testing and building systems, intraday systems are very hard to build accurately and most dont hold up in...
Has anyone got an idea on a good short entry signal?
I'd rather spend the $300k for a branch. Sounds like great management they have over there, they really know how to make and implement a decision...
Just a theory - check out ShorCanIndex.com they run a CFD operation, you might be able to open an account and go short with the CFD if its available.
I've visited Collective2 and its a great signal site. If the Systems Developer is getting out of the tradign aspect of the business, then this is...
They should prosecute and sentence this academic, making him trade at one of Swifttrades many branches for a 1 year. It would at least shut him...
Tradetheplan, How can I find out more about the Opus group, there is little to no information at Schonfelds site. All I see is info about...
Hi, I have a bunch of EOD systems I'm testing and working on. I get Sharpe Ratio's in the area of .30 - .40. I've heard some traders say look...
Sounds like Swifttrade and their Arbitrage "strategy" hit up an ecn on the ask and bid up to another ECN punch out for your rebate. Thats a...
Excerpt from article in Fortune Magazine -June 27, 2005 How I make decisions: Trading Derivatives- Simon Yates, Managing Director Equity...
Interesting, would you use internaxx to trade offshore and avoid taxes on trades? What about Interactive Brokers for Equity / Futures or ASL...
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