You're right about many of the advantage of python. Still, to make it easy to quickly "implement" a trading idea with python (I know python)...
The exact same thing happened to me. Discretionary day trading for a few weeks revolutionized my understanding of the data that I look at on...
It's funny. I did the same thing. But ended up building in a lot of features to C# for the code to allow simple conversion of EasyLanguage,...
It doesn't cost much to get a server running and managed in a data center near the broker/exchange. That's what I do. Works great. Beats the...
Interesting. One down side to using limit orders which causes what you describe above is that in a very liquid market your order can be behind...
FYI: Martingale is a simplistic form of a mean reversion strategy per comparing these wikipedia definitions:...
very true.
By the way, my personal observation about myself and many traders is that we initially come to trading with an almost gambler mentality. That is...
Fully agree with your primary point in that opinions vary. What one person consider reliable or good returns another may disagree. It depends on...
One more clarification. We all "use" stops in trading--at least an emergency stop. However, it's a mistake to use stops in historical...
About martingale. Someone mentioned in relation to adding to losers. We're not discussing martingale. Martingale by definition has you...
Okay. That makes sense. I do the multi time frame thing already so that does multiple it out some more. Thanks for clarifying! I'm curious...
I agree. It's super hard to actually identify the different market conditions. My list of market conditions is because it helps me build...
Folks, I used ignore this time. However, I still went and checked the subversion logs to verify my memory served me correctly in case...
Thanks. I probably need a higher threshold like you say for negativity before hitting ignore. I tend to assume people are sincere too long....
Just a note to clarify something and also be fair. First we appreciate those who contributed ideas. We're also working out an plan to make an...
I agree with the last two posts concept. I found it works for me. It's just difficult to do unless you build your own software or (dare I say it)...
Agreed TraderZones: In one job, years ago, I did house calls for tech support. Most of the clients were retired and looking to setup their PC...
We agree. So it was only miscommunication. Wayne
Travis, You sound like you seriously have figured out what it's all about. Things change as your account size grows. Most never completely...
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