You are welcome. I am in a similar situation as you are - so I get a lot out of threads like this. I too have a system / platform that I...
I suggest you make a piece of paper describing the following: 1. Your investment universe - the currency pairs you trade, how you trade them,...
You situation is akin to a startup company asking for capital: The earlier you get foreign capital - the more you will be paying for it in terms...
I use the sharpe ratio of the running total net liquidation value of my portfolio. The profit ratio may hide the volatility of the return in...
You need a live track record. If you have companies or clients offering you to trade their money on a system that is only validated on...
Hey - hire IB programmers at 20 USD per hour - and resell them to John McCain for picking lettuce at 50 USD per hour - huge arbitrage possibility...
It depends on the fitness landscape. Genetic algorithms works because the algorithm has elements of hill-climbing in it. So for it to work...
BTW: I second tums and edbar's good advice: Take a throughout look at what is out in terms of standard software / platforms before you endeavor...
"I would not mind to get some side work from this site but that fee worries me ..." If you are placed in NYC I would think it would be...
Search this forum for similar discussions. You need to spec out requirements and overall software architecture (what broker you have, with what...
I think people have more trust in limit orders and value their transparency - they fear that they may be cheated in some situations with a market...
I use market orders; but my average holding period of 1 week is probably bigger than yours. I think I depends on what you are trading and on...
This subject pops up from time to time - you need to trust the people you work with - including your programmer. What I don't get is this: How...
Sure you can do it. And probably in trade station too. This is not far from what I do with IB and some Java. There are some...
Why bother with the demo data quality? It is clearly rubbish - designed to be a demo. You need a proper account to get proper data....
I think I completely misread the question. Sorry.
You can use a combination of Yahoo's split / dividend data and opentick's intraday data. The data quality will be reasonable and it is free.
Thanks dsplaisted - so the Open Tick data is not wrong - it just does not have data from all of Nasdaq? If I summerise over a full day - i.e....
Hi there. What accounts for the difference in volume data between Interactive Brokers and Open Tick? For example for Apple I get:...
A question in my naivete: A what timescale would something like interactive brokers scale out? Wrt. bid/ask spread - one simple way around this...
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