It is a good question. Here is my answer... "Monkey see, monkey do". They are lots of traders out there that are viewed as experts and...
Wow, really good job on rephasing my poorly worded comment. Thanks BartS. Another thing I did was stop reading any trading and financial...
I don't have any books to recommend, but I will tell you what worked for me. #1 PROTECT YOUR MONEY!!!! Don't easily give it away to the market...
If you really have something that works well, you could TOPM (trade other peoples money) vs selling the program like I do. There are advantages...
Buy into strength. Sell into weakness. I generally agree with this for the simple fact that averaging up is going with the trend while...
I back test by running my automated trading system in similation mode using data I have collected over the years. I'm a day trader, so most of...
Hi all. Over the years, I have backed tested many trading ideas searching for any kind of edge or historically repeating patterns that might...
Over a long period of time (5+) years, my setup tends to perform equally well during the day (except for lunch). However it has gone through long...
I put all the ticks in a que (syncronized collection) which gets accessed by another thread that pulls out all the ticks and makes them available...
From the ground up using Java. Not that I think it is the best language, just the one I know the best. 2002-03: Learned as much as I could...
I'm by no means a gap expert, but the research I have done related to gaps leads me to think that gaps are closed more likely because of 2 then 1....
She would love to have that dream vacation, but the big discussion these days is about her wanting to be job free as well. She has mixed emotions...
I developed my first system while working a full time job and it required some serious dedication to code all day at work and then come home and...
Yeah, I coded mine to do exactly that. However, I still recommend adding additional code to verify that child orders get submitted and accepted...
Had a problem like this several years ago. Orders have to be accepted in the proper sequence relative to the order ids. So even though I might...
This has been an amazingly great market for trend following trading. Best I have experienced so far since I started trading several years ago....
Ahh the fun of an ATS... I wrote mine from scratch in Java and had my fair share of bugs to work out. Life can be rough while working out all the...
Are you amusing that 100% of bananas are 100% edible? If 65% of bananas are edible, how many bananas are needed to guarantee getting 1 that is...
Setting aside the scaling vs all in/out debate. With good money management, a trading method that generally produces 65% 1:1 with a frequency...
Most of the discussion on that thread does not factor in variance. Back testing is done in a controlled environment as the historical data never...
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