i am out of this part of the conversation. there is some serious trivialization going on of what is a very difficult problem, but i've said my...
but that's not what i said. what i said was patterns of this type will appear due to comm issues whether or not there is a "trading" basis for...
...mostly after WW2, when every other industrial economy on the planet was laying in a smoldering wreckage and for 20 years there wasn't even...
parts of the economy are global. goods can move, capitial can move, but labor is still stuck behind artificial political barriers. until that...
prophet: re: your PM... you're going to see clustering at those time scales whether or not there really is any. if the market consisted of...
[/b] right. a system call, which will get executed based on a system time slice boundary. you see the problem, right? you're now dealing with 2...
FXCM has to be the greatest irony on ET given all the bitching and whining about "evildoer market makers" over the years.
that is no different than saying they are often unfair...
the math is backwards: the greater the clientele, the more important restrictions on traders become as it becomes more and more expensive to allow...
it's not the spread itself, it's what the spread represents with these "forex" companies. the poster is correct, the game is rigged...
if you're patient enough, and manage your money well enough, and diversify enough, and live long enough, Darvas and Donchian and any other trend...
you can get all the free realtime headlines you like from a variety of IRC servers that 'bot them into a chat room.
there is really only one question you need answered: how do they make their coin? once you know that, you know everything...
oh my. may as well use ET as a timing model.
unless you have a truly awful connection, the biggest delays aren't on your side of the broker's server, they are on the broker's side of the...
going through a retail broker it simply doesn't matter whether or not an order gets "on the wire" 1/100 of a second faster. before that order goes...
sorry, forgot, this setup doesn't actually do trades, it only collects data. for that, i agree, the panic button is not nearly as important.
no, it's 10 milliseconds. it's not a hardware limitation, it's a Windows limitation - linux running on the same platform has a 1ms system time...
you sure about that? XP system clock has a 10ms tick size...
so what? you're already stated this isn't a run-unattended system, the latency from colo to broker is irrelevant. what matters is the latency from...
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