The only platforms that can come close to doing this are TradingTechnologies and CQG's AutoSpreaders. They do ratio and difference-based spreads....
Tradingview has a pretty decent backtesting capability, although I would only use it for preliminary tests. You can only do one stock/futures/FX...
Yep, just the membership cost and commission savings aren't all the pieces! It definitely requires a spreadsheet.
Here is all the pricing info. You can also lease a seat, which is pretty reasonable, but your commission discount is less. It's easy to calculate...
If you really want to dig into it, seasonalgo and MRCI (both paid services) are the best sources for ideas. I papertraded some Seasonalgo...
As long as you keep the same *percentage* of stocks/cash, then you will never run out of cash. An extreme example: 70/30 stocks/cash asset...
Rent a VPS and install it there. Log into VPS from remote computer and do your thing. Speedytradingservers dot com (no affiliation) or simply an...
Alan Woods has his own profile in the book "Gambling Wizards," which is modeled after the "Market Wizards" series and is very good.
Some traders claim that bonds or crude can lead ES (bonds in the opposite direction). I don't know if there is any data to back that up though....
1. You need to have a contract with a pipeline/storage company in Cushing, OK. 2. I don't know - probably not. 3. There are no storage futures,...
Barchart.com has free spread charting as well.
It definitely happens. Back in 2005 I was looking at a thinly-traded timber MLP called Pope Resources (POPE). One day in early February a popular...
He's quoting the local price. Natural Gas pricing is HIGHLY location dependent. If there isn't a pipeline near the well, the transport costs can...
If you want to know the list of a particular stock, type: [ticker] investor relations analyst coverage into google, and the top result should be a...
Because it serves as a benchmark for basically every short-term interest rate product, such as LIBOR, Eurodollars, and the bank Prime rate. There...
You just described the business model of banking. In fact, banks do even better - they borrow from checking account holders at 0% and lend at 4%...
Yes, and much cheaper. But the learning curve is steep. No hand-holding.
Oanda doesn't work the way you think it does. Oanda is on the bid and the ask, and your limit orders are simply "market if touched." So you will...
Try reading some of Euan Sinclair's option books. Volatility Trading is fairly accessible. In fact, Dynamic Hedging is a component of Volatility...
What are you trading? You can trade literally everything at Interactive Brokers, with a platform that can be customized and automated (if you know...
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