CBOT trading was bought out by NYSE LIFFE and is a reasonable option depending on your strategies. The most active exchange right now is COMEX...
Do yourself a favor. Try putting the USD as the denominator in all charts where it's part of a pair (chart it as 1/USDCAD, 1/USDCHF, 1/USDJPY,...
Most of your answers can be found here http://www.nymex.com/GC_spec.aspx Use the links on the left hand side. The Tokyo commodity exchange...
Let's replace "volume" with "previous price action" in your above example. Price can move up after it doesn't move for X period of time. Price...
1.5:1 would significantly hurt retail FX. Let's hope that never becomes a reality. However, lowering to around 25:1 won't destroy the game. It...
My standard strategies do not use volume in any way. However, I do have one or two successful strategies that use volume extensively in certain...
Thanks, I thought so too and it's nice to see someone actually bringing something to this discussion. The fact that there's varied viewpoints...
Because either you or they aren't seeing the whole market.
Price and volume (and the order book) are the only pieces of information given by the market. Why would you choose to ignore information when...
Central banks aren't out looking for profit. My understanding is that they are often the biggest givers of profit.
I've noticed a few new holes in your holy grail this time. 1) You still aren't protected from major economic events. The market will often...
Proflogic, Perhaps the words âintolerable drawdownsâ was a bit too harsh. Even a system that was caught like a deer in headlights during...
You say that a system that is based on your desired type of chart will never have intollerable drawdowns? That's crazy. All it takes is one...
The "only run your system when it will work" idea is similar to the idea of only going long when the market is going to go up and only get short...
Backtesting. Plenty of quants/traders think backtesting is the answer to the next great strategy. So they buy the data and then run 1000s of...
Any Algo company worth anything can just record the data straight from the market feed as it comes in. You could do it yourself without buying...
Money management is your only real way. Not every move can be predicted. Overall, if the big spikes are "random", then you should come out flat...
TA is a graphical/mathematical depiction of mass psychology. And more recently, it's a depiction of the automation created to take advantage of...
austinp is absolutely correct that every backtest will come up with a maximum profit at a single exit point. The problem is with curve-fitting and...
Extremely unlikely in today's political environment. If they confiscate gold, then most likely it means that US Citizens will not be allowed to...
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