Sorry if I gave that impression; I definitely believe that simple strategies can work (I've traded them and totally agree anything with a low...
I'm afraid I'd have to concur with HurricaneUS on this; Buying SPY/ES at the open and selling it at the close via MOO/MOC orders generates a...
I wasn't exactly bitching - I'm very much an IB advocate. But I'm also in this business to make money; If you guys feel the need to pay your...
+1 Its amazing how many graduates can talk the talk, but quickly fade when asked to roll up their sleeves and actually code something.
Thanks for the head's up. So $30/mo per 100 additional quotes, with an upper limit of 1000 additional quotes total. Note that this is...
I started out the year strong but was spanked by the August Black Swan. Ended the year with a modest gain of +11% (vs +44% for 2010)....
Thanks for the kind words, ohms - appreciate it! For those interested in more techniques along these lines, try googling "White's Reality...
My pleasure, feng - hope its helpful. Happy Holidays to everyone!
There are many variations of MC techniques, but the basic idea is to generate synthetic equity curves by resampling the equity curve generated...
There's a couple of papers on MC techniques posted on the reddit Algorithmic Trading group I moderate that you might find helpful:...
Its a Nas100 component so I doubt it has such a small market cap. Just checked: $5B It trades above $30 and it does 3M shares/day. And its...
Just received a reply from IB: Apparently one of the stocks I purchased currently has a 100% initial margin requirement as of today. That's...
Yeah, I'm actually aware of PM, but have never needed it in the two years I've been trading with IB, as I always size things under 3:1 and my...
Is anyone else having trouble with orders being rejected due to insufficient margin today? I started the day with slightly over $100K in cash,...
Thanks very much for the reply, IBsoft. Hmm...Is there any way I can just pay for additional symbols? I'd like to run 200 to 300 real time...
I just got an invitation from IB to join their "Information System Beta Test". From what I've gleaned, it is apparently an optional addon to TWS...
Ego is irrelevant and has nothing to do with how I chose a live system to trade. I've been successfully trading an automated intraday RTM...
I'd do Maria any day (if I could get her to shut up for five minutes)
You can make money trading or fading trends (although I make most of my money doing the later). Trend traders get paid to jump on the train;...
Didn't Bill Gates once say that he was more concerned about what some lone software engineer might be working on in his garage than he was about...
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