Yolanda trades 100 uncorrelated strategies. She has 100 assistants each flip a coin. Yolanda goes Long 1% of her account for each coin that lands...
Are you interested in commodities, or forex? Compliance officers tend to be specialized.
Beware that postponing an appointment means "I must reallocate my schedule to something more important than my appointment with you." You are...
Another rationale for trading multiple systems is: diversification. With multiple systems you can have diversification ofTrading frequency (avg...
Yes and the FS brokers who are in fact a human being rather than a website / email address, are glad for you to come into the physical office and...
I use Merrill Lynch, mostly for fixed income trading, but with some DOTM covered calls here and there. I also use Charles Schwab, primarily...
Buy1Sell2 says: "Scaling out" is inferior behavior vhehn says: there is no "right" way to trade. the best way to trade is to find a strategy...
You could (1) explore trading approaches which use Limit orders to enter and exit, rather than stop orders; (2) increase the amount of slippage in...
CME-IMM $-denominated NK is 5 points per tick. Call it "NK Chicago" to follow the naming convention of kiwi_trader. Here is some recent data...
Yesterday (Monday 16 October 2006) I bought 1 contract of December CME-IMM $-denominated Nikkei at market on the open. Was filled at 16720....
Spoken like one who has never traded futures in a large account. The reason people buy and sell T-bills every week is, because their account...
Policy varies among FCMs (Futures Commission Merchants -- the futures equivalent of Stock Brokerage Houses) and in some cases, among different...
Lowest volatility of them all is CME LIBOR. Followed by Banker's Acceptances futures traded at Montreal. Then EURIBOR on LIFFE, then Canola at...
Too bad life isn't so simple. When you are programming and testing system ideas, sometimes you want to do something in a "grey area" that verges...
I've invested with a manager who offers clients a choice: either 2-and-20, or 0-and-25. I didn't see it as an act of desperation.
It's odd that Amazon doesn't display a publication date for the book. I think I'll wait a few weeks before deciding whether or not to buy it. By...
There isn't a paid source of stock or futures data that doesn't have those problems, what makes you think a free one exists?
Who is constantly increasing fees? Which fees are they constantly increasing? Does the Federal Reserve control these people?
It sounds like you have assumed that trade #6 exits before trade #7 enters, i.e., the system only trades a single instrument. However there are...
Get good tools and good data. These are not cheap. Do your own work, disregard the preaching and pontificating and posturing of others,...
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