Most foreigners don't have a TIN, in which case you have nothing to fill. See http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/iw8ben.pdf for explanations.
Some good texts: Kaufman, Perry J. - Trading Systems and Methods.pdf BRUCE I. JACOBS, KENNETH N. LEVY - Market neutral strategies.pdf...
Trade profits are tax-exempt for foreigners. However dividents are taxable. You should fill a form w8-ben and declare that you are a...
One problem is, it can be 70% or even 90% winning trades, but still losing money. One example of such system is: buy anything, sell if it goes...
-20% for August. Nothing to say. It sucks to be a loser. But I'll keep posting until the death of that account. Questrade is launching new...
What's for sure, it's harder to simulate short trading system. Because you should know what stocks are available for short at any given moment...
Few days ago I had a limit ask order at .49, saw prints at .50 and .51 going throug, but my order wasn't filled. These co-located pro's are so...
The math behind this "advice" is as follows: If you make one trade with 100% of your capital, you pay $20 commission. If you make 50 trades...
Good call, grats!
It's cheaper to develop with C#. .NET is such a good thing, everything is served half chewed to you. Development costs are so low, anyone can...
Sh.t, I m not learning from my mistakes. Twice missed profitable signals today. I sit here, waitng for signals. Program screams "Buy!", I...
Basically you should test your system on out-of-sample data (any time period other than that used to develop the system, to fine tune parameters...
I'm confused. As I know, in Forex you always buy at ask and sell at bid. Doing 100 trades a day means losing 200-300 pips right away, which is...
But your "God" is actually Satan ! Allah the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, is the only True God ! Burn in Hell you infidel !
Wow. How easy. Why didn't I think of this earlier?
The opposite scenario could also materialize: if it does not go lower then it will bounce, or might stay the same. As to the bounce strength,...
-5% in July. Earned gross $117 on 20 trades, paid $229 in commisions. It's too early to tell based on only 25 trades, but all this doesn't look...
I think actually daytraders are at an advantage to funds etc simply because it's easier to buy 1000 shares than 1,000,000 shares.
In your case all quotes can easily fit in computer memory (RAM). Modern RAM moves data at a speed ~1 GB/second. Say your bar size is 20 bytes...
What a pity I'm not an american citizen - I would have "bought" 100M of some $0.01 stock hoping it goes to $0.10 - much better chance than in a...
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