During real trading besides the current price (ie. last trade price) IMO nearly everybody watches also the actual Bid/Ask prices and sets his own...
The reason for 1M trading for the backtesting is that results of trading 1M should be statistically more significant than trading smaller amounts....
Both L1 and L2 is there, but what they show is delayed and mostly only a snapshot. I guess they are updating them only when the specialists finds...
I forgot to add "for me". Because I made some backtests and the NAZ stocks give more profit. The other reason is with the not so easy...
I think NYSE will collapse because of the rebellion of the specialists and MM against modernization of the NYSE.
Where could I get the current price data (at least Last,Hi,Lo,Vol) of all listed US stocks (about 7000) as fast as possible? The prices should be...
This would mean a DD of about 10 to 20%, right? Isn't that usually typical for long term trading? Wouldn't active daytrading (ie. holding no...
Say, the initial 1M money is that of a prop firm (or a fund to manage). Only the best trader/manager who demonstrates how to make the highest...
Imagine you have a trading account of size 1M. As a daytrader how much % do you think you can make of it in a year?
MrMarket, you posted a tradelist, fine. But the question remains: is the list complete of all your trades? Imagine this: if I buy just a handful...
The commission rate of Freetrade (www.freetrade.com) and an API like TWS or myTrack... That would be like easter and christmas at the same...
Such frauds are possible only because there is no law which says that such economic numbers for the public have to be made public only during...
To the original poster: you need to backtest your stragety with different and realistic parameters, and then chose the best setup. As a rule...
> msgIn and msgOut files Where are these files stored?
Doesn't it heavily depend on how much one trades, ie. acct size? For a little guy 500k could maybe mean 1000% whereas for a big guy maybe only...
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