Can you buy a car in BTC? Pay an electricity bill? Or only by condoms and iPhone cases?
So, BRK has been around for 46 years, growing... do you honestly think Bitcoin will be around in 46 years? In 5 years? :)
The best setup is to have both ToS and IB. IB for low commission and better execution - ToS for their superior charts and options analytics. I...
I've been trading FOPs on CL and NG on both IB and ToS - they are both OK, I think execution on IB is better - faster and you get better fills....
can it be downloaded to a file?
Yes, I can see how trailing stops could be harmful to trades where a move is not very big, or market is oscillating significantly, unlike in my...
Inspiring story, but still, they've working in investment banks for decades prior, and no doubt had connections that helped them achieve this success.
Following bearish news on copper triggered this weekend by default of a chinese mainland company, current glut of copper in China, and a recent...
ThinkOrSwim has very good tools for options trading if you are ok to trade manually (w/o API), it has greeks, risk analysis, probability etc......
TWS does show options greeks, however, there is a huge limitation that's been bothering me for a while - they don't compute gamma & theta for puts...
Another benefit of Linux vs Windows: with linux - you don't have to worry about viruses, worms and exploits, they pretty much don't exist for...
You can just add a column where you generate your entry/exit signals based on indicator values, and then in another column keep track of P/L based...
Hmm, I've been selling naked calls on commodity futures in my IB IRA accounts for some time, no problem, as long as I maintain sufficient margin....
Yes, you can't really build a full-scale back-testing or trading application with R. However, there is a right tool for each task. You can...
There is a few packages: Rserve: http://www.rforge.net/Rserve/ Rscript: https://rforge.net/rscript/ Rosuda:...
You can implement event-driven back testing in Java and still use R to perform statistical/math calculations. There is a pretty good integration...
Kafe, IB is the best choice really, especially for Java. Commissions are low (for retail) , and their requirement is lower than most other...
I tried some time ago (over a year) but the 3rd party libs didn't work well. These days I just get historical data using IB API, store it in csv...
I've been using this strategy for a while now. Some things I learned: 1) Don't exceed 10-15% of your available capital for maintenance margin. 2)...
Can't wait for longs to start running for the exit in a few days trying to cover positions before MAR14 futures expire...
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