I would suggest you backtest your theory. Simply trend following has no edge. It will appear to make you money when the market is mostly...
Assuming this contest was real, note that there is no way to view his "draw-up". Thus we have no way of knowing how far up a trade went before he...
http://www.collective2.com/cgi-perl/systems.mpl?want=publicdetails&systemid=23645336&session=339337856661211279488880787119076 Just curious......
Veiling an insult through use of a thesaurus makes it no less of an insult. I would ask you to reexamine your motives for the creation and...
Part of the problem with decoupling this from specific brokers is we have no common API for retrieving data and placing orders. We can define our...
Hello Baron. My suggestion would be to organize everything by target platform. Example platforms might be: Java, .Net (includes any language...
Any possibility that we could keep the thread titles of those threads in the politics and religion non-visible from the www.elitetrader.com/vb...
Um, no. -Raystonn
Those would be the equity indices, but not the equity index futures. The ES, EMD, YM, and ER2 futures closed down for the day. Only the NQ...
The original poster was forecasting that the major equity index futures would be down today (Monday). For the most part, this is true. He made...
Looking at daily bars: ES futures down 1.75 YM futures down 34 EMD futures down 2.70 SPY security down 0.19 What were you trading? -Raystonn
Does it matter? Create a few pairs of accounts. For each pair, choose an instrument and go long in one and short in the other. You will have...
It should be obvious that the trading rules you are following when doing it manually are not the same as those you implemented in your automated...
Talk about a fat finger mistake... How about premium gasoline for $0.28 per gallon? It doesn't sound like any of those trades are going to be...
If nearly half the world is expecting a tremendous bear run and nearly half the world is expecting a tremendous bull run, the wise man expects...
http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/technology/hpq/index.htm?cnn=yes ----- NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A state judge in California Wednesday...
Credit card rewards are usually capped. Most of the time you stop gaining rewards after the first $500 in purchases. -Raystonn
This should just serve as further proof that such contests judge who is luckiest, not who is best. Even if each person had a single portfolio,...
Tell me, what exactly do you mean by "programming a trading idea"? Do you mean a simplistic trading rule with just the basics of buy/sell logic,...
Here is the same chart shown logarithmically, which is the proper format to show anything which grows exponentially like compound interest....
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