Yeah I guess that's overstating it. I generally believe the posters here if they appear to be a mostly sane individual that types in complete...
Kevin Davey is a legit algo trader. He uses TradeStation. He made 160k in 2014 and 300k in 2015 according to his tax returns....
Good suggestion. I emailed CME and this was their response: Clearing Risk Management <Clearing.RiskManagement@cmegroup.com> [IMG] Hello...
Haha yes, over 100% not 200%, my mistake.
Anyone else notice the required initial margin for palladium futures went from $4950 to $10,340 over the course of the last month? Did a bunch of...
Good book on basic backtesting and walk-forward analysis: [IMG] For ideas on indicator setups/entries/exits, try searching for PDFs of Omega...
Ah yes, that's true. My bad.
You're not a rookie, but three weeks ago you thought ES closed at 1:15 PM on Fridays. I saw your post before you deleted it.
CL front month, simple trend following strategy. I don't follow Al Brooks but I liked what he said about crude in Futuresmag a couple months ago:...
If you're not optimizing parameters or rules for your strategy, then just a backtest might be okay if it looks good based on your original...
Haven't been able to come up with a strategy to trade the front month of NG. Seems totally random. One thing I did notice looking at the charts....
Which VIX instrument?
Not to nitpick, but it doesn't seem like a million bucks would be enough to crash VX futures. The inside bid/ask always has hundreds of contracts...
"The market behaves much like an opponent who is trying to teach you to trade poorly." -William Eckhardt
Yeah, not necessarily audited, just returns that someone else has verified. Haha, afraid not. I'm a novice futures swing trader with a small...
Any daytraders with audited 10+ year returns? I think a few of Market Wizards were daytraders but I'd have to flip through the series again to check.
Load up Barchart.com during the open and you can see for yourself the # of contracts on the bid/ask
QM moves exactly the same as CL, just has half the leverage. 6B has some nice swings. My last sim trade on that was an 11 day swing.
I think there's some confusion due to OP conflating exchange and market maker, when they are two different entities...
Great thread bbpp. I'm wondering if you have any knowledge on a strategy known as "HFT VIX Scalper" that was the #1 strategy on c2 until it...
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