How can you calculate a risk-reward ratio on only 1 trade?????
Give an hammer to 2 different guys. One will build a castle and the other one will fail at his first nail.... It's not really what you are using,...
Totally wrong! Anything can be back tested. Sometimes it's harder, but still feasible.
That quote explained everything!!! Back testing is a process, it has nothing to do with experience. It's the basis of finding a strategy/model...
The goal is not to be right all the time, but to make money overall. The market is an ocean, we only need to grab a few scoops of it every day.
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It seems that you are using the IB API extensively, for both order management and market data. I'm trying to use their API as little as possible....
How many times a month your Internet goes down? I'm asking because I had 2 different locations, and at each place the Internet didn't go down...
I'm talking about the Gateway. If I remember well, I just downloaded their latest version on their web site, a couple of months ago. I don't know...
I'm using the IB GW Build 966, dated Jun 16, 2017 and I don't have those issues.
How did you perform your 'demo trading'? How many trade did you do? How many years/months was that? What product/instrument are you trading? What...
It's sad that so many people here don't know that they are talking about. Obviously, ET is not the best to get advices on computers. Btw, Scat is...
I'd say both. Entertaining at first, but too much after a while...
Aahhhhhh!!!! La Piazza del Duomo...
MM make money on the bid-ask spread basically. They buy on the bid and sell on the offer. It's an obligation for them to provide liquidity on the...
I have an office in Mtl, for both my trading and my other business. I will need to move my trading stuff somewhere else soon. By trading stuff I...
TANSTAAFL "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" There was a trading firm with that name. They closed the shop in 2006.
If you trade everyday, my take would be that you would need to declare your P/L as trading income. Btw I'm not an expert in tax reporting. If you...
The thing is, it's not black or white. Day trading is considered income and investment capital gain. If you do short term trading and your goal is...
What type of 'fees' are you referring to?
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