You might want to try something Mark Douglas recommends. 1) stop doing what you do now 2) COMMIT to taking the next X trades EXACTLY as your...
you can also get price improvement with limit orders on oanda.com so its not all one way traffic. i had this a few times when i was playing around...
well stalimited.com seem to offer LSE trading and i know they are a mainly futures prop firm...Because they clear via GNI (now part of Man Group)...
At least then I could add "lab rat" to my CV. Just don't make me run round one of those treadmill things or go looking for cheese...anything...
I didn't know what you meant by Murray math until I went to that thread and saw all that ugly mouth froth. Eh, no I use only price. That...
I'm quite suprised to get them all right because I did feel several were close calls. It was fun and instructive - thanks to John for putting...
this isn't much help but to an experienced trader your question is analagous to you asking someone who drives a car: "if you drive on roads how...
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It's easy to imagine a >90% winning strategy. Even if I buy/sell at random I can get that just by adjusting my reward:risk to about 1:10...if...
I think there's something interesting here. Most of the accepted trading wisdom applies to only a particular very broad set of trading stats....
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1035873305237 there is always hope. Q1
I think what Taleb says is not that the model undervalues OTM options. I believe that Black-Scholes is only really relevant ATM and that the...
No-one's calling bottoms anymore on this board. You know what that means... :D Q1
if you have ever: - drunk too much - eaten too much - spent to much - envied too much - feared too much - driven too fast - broken a...
well hmmm. what's the state of the "market"? i think in aggregate the shorter-term trader population (those who, at the margin, swing the market...
i tried various ways of doing this some time ago. i started with 150 eod futures markets and sought the best markets on which to trade a simple...
hehe... i like that... still, it's just a warning. if you don't have a lot of market experience you can get hoodwinked into thinking...
Hybridmachine, I hope you're aware that the last month or two has been unusually profitable for simple breakout systems and that this is not...
i think they just don't transmit it. i know it took CQG ages to get actual trade volume for charts because they had to "build it" out of the feed...
i look and i see tick volume 29/8/2002 ET U2-DT trades 430,000 contracts over about 10.5 hours so far: =40950 per hour =3400 per 5 minutes...
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