IMHO trading by 'rules that can't be automated' is the same as trading on gut feel. Either a rule can be quantified and thus automated, then it...
Because someday, the money may stop pouring in. ;-)
The Mini will be 1/5 of the regular DAX future. Regarding the breakeven point, that's true. And it will most likely also attract undercapitalized...
I don't see a problem here. For example, current Eurex commissions are 4 EUR/roundturn at IB. Seems reasonable even for a Mini-FDAX with notional...
Unfortunately, that's not true. Millions didn't. For example, in the early years of the USSR, collectivization of agriculture caused a massive...
Socialism... ruining one country at a time since 1917.
There is a problem with the definition of the '1%'. Politicians typically want the masses to believe that the so-called '1%' are people owning...
Everything is possible. However, it is extremely unlikely. Even turning $5000 into $100,000 within a year or a few requires a rare combination of...
Why wants everyone and their mother trade on 1, 3 or 5 minute charts? It may be tempting, but the shorter the timeframe, the harder it gets.
Could be. That also increases the likelihood that this time the market will not simply recover immediately.
Anybody here already running IB TWS on El Capitan? Any problems to be aware off?
Any 'official' definition of inflation that does not include asset price inflation is flawed. That is the biggest problem of them all. Until the...
By the way, the currently discussed proposal for an FTT in Europe specifically excludes trading in government debt from the tax. This means that...
Right click on a parent order, select 'modify' - 'condition'. There you can set a condition - including the price level of another instrument -...
According to 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung', this could either be a short squeeze or an indication that the families Porsche and Piech expand...
All those years people have complained that Apple products are too expensive. Now that Microsoft has come up with a 1500+ USD notebook, price does...
The worst thing about the transaction tax is not that it's not justified from a taxpayers standpoint. The worst thing is that it would make the...
Trading based on market generated data works, but trading on well known rules, patterns and indicators usually does not. In other words: Yes....
Good commentary about FTT on Bloomberg View: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-05/europe-s-robin-hood-tax-is-a-risky-proposal
Not entirely true. While every "Retina" display is an IPS display, not every IPS display is a "Retina" display. The Retina display is an IPS...
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