Hi, If I ran a broker firm, it would occur to me that a few percent of my customers would be good traders. It would not be hard to run reports...
I use and recommend IB. However, their paper account can only be used when you have a real account, and the minimum to open a real account is...
Well said. In other words, only confidence in the tried-and-true long term performance of a system will give you the balls to continue trading it...
I too was torn to shreds for asking a simple question last week. They assume one simple question means you don't know anything about anything....
I backtest with 2 years of tick-level data for YM, which is almost 12M ticks (after removing redundant ones, i.e. ones with no price change). I...
You, sir, are what makes ET worthwhile :D
Could be other retail traders, could be pros. Let's just hope the supply of dumb money into the markets continues unabated. At the end of the day,...
Ah well, can't be right all the time :D
OK, here's my call, FWIW: the Dow will drop 100 pts immediately after the Fed decision is announced, followed by a steady gain to finish the day...
Then you have an edge on us system traders. The brain is the best trading machine going, if well trained.
My system's actual performance equals backtested performance, but that's because I tested with 2 years of tick level data (avg. 25,000 price level...
Depends what you mean by dries up. It does flatten out a lot, but not completely. You can still get 10-15 point moves in that time. I think people...
I just wish people didn't have to be so negative on this board. I'm pretty much convinced this place is full of people with big egos and small...
Because I didn't know that practically every day some kind of news comes out at 7:30 Central. I thought it was pretty much dispersed throughout...
No shit, Sherlock. Yes, I know about those things. But they don't affect my trading. I'm not sure what is so hard to understand about the fact...
Actually, I think not having run over 1 million simulated trading runs with 2 years of tick-level data and progressively refined your algorithms...
Nope. I have a mechanical trading system, and have been trading profitably for almost a year. As such, news is only of passing interest to me.
Hi, I trade the YM, and I noticed that at 7:30 Central time, almost every morning, there is a spike, either up or down. Once it's over, the...
Care to expand on that at all?
First there were more buyers than sellers in the market. Then there were more sellers.
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