I guess the decision whether to continue with a strategy or rework some/all of it should be partly based on whether you believe it will meet your...
I'm in the Northern VA area. Currently retail trading intraday equities (automated), and looking into the possibility of swing trading futures....
Elitist, are you looking to combine your group's accounts into one when you make the move, or keep separate accounts? Just curious, haven't heard...
If you're up for taking the time to learn a language, I'd recommend diving into C# or Java vs. something like Ninja Script. You'd have complete...
Not sure if this was clear, but I meant to say that you should regenerate that random number with every trade in your backtest. Over many trades,...
You may have already thought of this and maybe this is down in the "splitting hairs" level of detail, and also not sure what granularity of...
I've thought about that, as well. It probably all boils down to how you want to spend your time, priorities, etc. In my case, I've focused...
Who is the intended audience of your statistics? You? Some prospective prop firm? Trying to get people to invest in your fund? I like to do...
One thing that I wouldn't want to give up would be the ability to backtest ideas during off-hours (or mid-session, too, I guess). Latency...
Thanks for all the responses. I found an Investopedia link about applying when self-employed... says a lot of what's already been said here:...
I'd be curious how cost effective running from the Amazon cloud would be vs. the costs of running a dedicated (remotely accessible) home computer....
Wanted to know if any professional traders here have tried applying for a mortgage...? How did that go; were you approved? How much scrutiny was...
I came across my old posts on this from last year and thought I'd do an update. I've been using "highest volume exchange with rebate" since the...
Looks like most flavors of 1099 will be available February 15. Not sure if that means "by" Feb 15 or "on" Feb 15....
I'm having a hard time getting amped up about this article. Neither BATS nor Nasdaq are hiding this information from the public... they post...
1. IQFeed 2. Interactive Brokers 3. Java 4. Java 5. No idea. Probably a lot. Way more than my current activity.
I switched to "highest volume exchange with rebate" last night. Looks like the favored exchange is the NYSE, which has a $0.001 per-share rebate...
If you can imagine combining the books of both Market A and Market B into one aggregate book and sorting the prices accordingly... then if you...
Thanks rasesh. I take it you're manually entering orders in TWS? IB adds some restrictions for API users like myself. They don't allow...
Hi all, this is admittedly my first post here (correction, second). Wanted to thank the general community here for good tips/advice in the...
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