If a trader wanted to prove that they were profitable, would they have have to provide brokerage statements showing individual trades, or just...
ES is a futures contract, so it's more like a bet on where you think the S&P will be in X months' time. As such, it is not the S&P index, and so...
If you provided a link to it, there's a lot greater chance people would read the old post.
If you assume that the price has to go to one tick beyond where you want to be filled, you're on safe ground. That's what IB simulated fills seem...
1) Backtest to find the worst-case for drawdown, and plan for it (i.e. have more than enough capital to handle it). 2) Be focused - find the...
I wonder if their competitor Peak6, down the road, has suffered similar losses? Anyone care to confirm or deny?
It will have to be named forextrader.com, as that will be the only instrument left available to us small-timers.
Because letting an automated system just do its thing IS the tricky part.
Unless their system exploits volatility.
Like someone on here said recently, I could post my trade setups on the front page of the WSJ and people wouldn't take them. Even if someone...
Here is the letter I sent also: Dear Sir, HR 1068 IH (Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street's Bailout Act of 2009) Legislation I feel very...
Here is a letter I drafted that you can feel free to send to your congressman or whatever: Dear Sir, HR 1068 IH (Let Wall Street Pay for...
Insecure? Me? No, I'm not insecure. I will not be accused of being insecure. I am as secure as the next person. Really, I am.
That's why only lower-frequency systems lend themselves to inversion, where tx costs are less of a factor. This has already been covered in this...
Done (once I figured out how to use the ignore feature!).
You obviously didn't read the entire post: he said a significant move ...
Automated my system 100%, and pledged not to manually enter or exit trades by burning the following mantra into my mind: "the system, the whole...
Surely your broker would automatically close your positions before you could go negative? After all, that $500 ES margin does still offer some...
It's already been priced in. The market basically yawned when it passed the House yesterday.
I'm just glad that my real (live) system, not the ES one, got through this last week without losing money. Broke even for the week in other words....
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