Thanks everyone for the replies! psytrade and jimbojim, I was using an approximate 2% risk per trade given the average size of a trade...
I have a system that I've been using since January. In January, I backtested it on a few different markets going back a few years, and it was...
Joovenile, I don't think you quite understand HFT. There are many forms of HFT. The type of HFT you're talking about with flash orders and...
I think they are this dumb, and even worse, they think we're even dumber than them that we would believe them. Obviously they would want to...
I'm not an expert by any means, but it seems to me that the bond prices are moving, not because of fundamentals, but because of momentum. Even in...
Warning to the bulls: I got my face ripped off on TBT, thinking that at some point this treasury rally would abate. Today was capitulation day...
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, it definitely needs some tweaking. I'm of the mind, like what Mark Douglas says, that losses are all part of...
I just had a huge losing day today. I was headed for my first very positive month since starting in January, and in 3 trades today, I got...
I'm still a newbie with all these concepts, so forgive my question but what exactly is the difference between zenfire and rithmic? My...
How did you get this e-mail? Did you sign up somewhere on ZenFire's web site?
I run a couple of automated trading systems through NinjaTrader 6.5. I trade once per day per market and I trade the US, Hong Kong, and German...
I have an automated trading system where the weakest link is myself. I keep futzing with it, even though the data shows that it works over time....
Thanks, I'll look into this!
I was actually being tongue-in-cheek when I used the term "nefarious", but I guess it didn't come through in my tone. I believe that anything...
I think I tried cqg, but if I remember correctly, I found that the times for their tick data was to the nearest *minute*, not even nearest second....
I thought the same thing, but as other people said, no one is looking to make money off my 1 contract (although this year, it seems to have been...
I trade the DAX futures, and often I see behavior that puzzles me and I'm wondering what the logic is behind the behavior. (I'm sure that this...
I see... interesting. Thanks for your response. This is different from what I see empirically, however, to me what you say makes more sense than...
This is a bit of a basic question, but what exactly is the time range of an OHLC bar? If I am using 1 min candles, and the bar is 1:00am,...
Would those 10% circuit breakers that the exchanges implemented help any crashes? I know it would slow things down, for sure, but if there was...
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