Yeah, anyone who believes government produced statistics without out knowing how they are calculated is pretty foolish. The formulas used to...
Yeah, I use back testing to figure out "what works" as well. I don't think I really know "why" it works from the backtesting, just that the...
I've been looking at more possibilities... Couldn't I just use Limit if Touched Orders and place the Aux price at 0.01 above the limit buy price?...
The reason is my backtesting only tests things that dont gap down & fill. I'm using stockfetcher to backtest and it just avoids those situations....
So, if I put the GAT to be 9:40am EST and the stock opening price is way below my limit buy, then the order will be rejected, right? -Mike
The one possible solution I looked at is using Discretionary orders and having the Discretionary amount be $0.001. I'm not sure if that would...
Hello all, I have a order question that I can't figure out. I have an IB account and place a lot of orders (100+) the night before for various...
I had many a order cancelled on IB because IB was unable to obtain the market opening price for me. From that, I believe that OPG does not...
Same here, my strategies make most of their money from the OTC/Pinkies. The trick is filtering out the low volume/low money flow ones so you...
I also vote for AMIBroker for backtesting. I started with stockfetcher.com, though. They also support backtesting and are easy to use. -Mike
I currently have a roll over ira (from my old 401k) that I put in etrade 2 years ago. I'd like to move all that money to Interactive Brokers...
Good advice. I just started using IB, so maybe I'll try the ol' shorting again. -Mike
I stopped my short mechnical trading strategies simply because I couldn't get a fill sometimes on the shorts because my broker couldn't borrow...
Agreed, survivor bias is more of a problem when you are dealing with trading the IBD100 or the components of QQQQ. Unless you've tracked...
I hope to one day have enough money that I COULD significantly impact the market :) -Mike
I think one difference may be that my formula is more like a screener that looks for stocks that match a certain pattern and then buys based on...
That's funny, I commited one of those when I first got into backtesting. I accidently based the buy limit price at a support point calculated from...
Yeah, I've tried the manual way, but that takes a lot of manual time which I'd rather conserve. In fact, before AMI Broker I didn't have an...
I've started using AMI Broker recently and have been taking advantage of its neat optimization feature. Unfortunately on my old AMD XP 3000+...
This is very useful, Thanks! -Mike
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