I can think of at least two ways to do the Monte Carlo: 1. If you have n trades, take n random draws with replication from your returns/trade,...
what universe of stocks are you using to choose the pairs from? Is it possible that the good results in earlier years are unrealistic b/c your...
there's an extensive literature on these carry trades. Google "forward-premium puzzle" or see e.g. http://www.nber.org/papers/w12489
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78604
just click on the link I posted, which explains the IB paper trading account. This is different from the "Live TWS demo".
maybe open a paper trading account and use that for the charts? http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/paperTrader.php
please give an example of "a broker who does not charge interest"
Consider forex through Oanda, see http://fxtrade.oanda.com/resources/fxmarkethours/ for market hours. You can start with their free demo.
I searched through my trading agreement and the information on their website but was not able to find any statement on max account sizes for a...
Why don't you enter this position with 2 pairs: GBP/USD and EUR/CHF?
Finn, Would you mind to share your experiences in some more detail? The reason I opened an account with them is that they have an interface to...
if the differences between these retail firms are substantial compared to the spread, wouldn't that be an arbitrage opportunity?
another way to approach this is to find out what the chance is that a random stock gets delisted (P). Then you can make an assumption about the...
I think it all depends on your style of trading. I bought a couple of Dell 1100's for $160 ($30 shipping) from Dell outlet. Don't need the...
A week ago I signed up for a mini account with www.forex.com. This morning I was not able to acces my account on-line for about 2 hours. Support...
Well, I hope that more ex-vendors will be as generous in their willingness to help as you are. Let's wait and see how many more will reply to this...
I think it's useful to distinguish two problems related to your question: 1. Getting historical data that includes delisted securities 2....
I think it makes more sense asking his question directly to vendors, rather than expecting vendors to answer the question in public on ET. Either...
after you sign up for a free account with C2, you can contact the vendors themselves through the C2 site, and ask them directly.
Try this free tool: http://www.amichel.com/ydownloader/ After downloading the data from Yahoo with this tool, it is stored in ascii format....
Separate names with a comma.