Recent content by Big Game Hunter

I think if you use 5 second bar data that it will probably always match the charts that I.B uses. The problem with it though is that if you use market orders when you trade they will potentially be up to 5 seconds delayed while the system waits for the next burst of data to come along. What...

Hi there guy. I like the interface youve designed very much. Congratulations on getting it right on. Anyway I use Interactive brokers and just wondered if theres any specific reason that you use the gateway to connect rather than having TWS open and doing it that way instead.. Is there any...

Does anyone like US 5 and 10 years also. What is the opinion on these? Ive not traded them so I cant coment. Theres a lot of history though going back to the 80's on the 10 years especially. Anyone trade these also?

I just did a whole bunch of backtesting on the stockmarket using OHLC tape driven type methodologies and whats really startling is how little edge there really is in most strategies that trade like that. Its not even possible to take a really bad strategy and reverse the signals in order to make...

Or 380 for all tick data for one contract.

Good luck finding that. For tick data it gets very expensive even a few months back. Esignal data only gos back a few days for example. You most likely should purchase tick data for your specific contract for 5 euros per month as far back as you need...

I often wonder what happens when you get futures like the YM and ES that can be naked shorted but the underlying DIA's and the SPY's are subject to an uptick rule. It could happen that all of the action in a scenario like that gos to the futures instead of equities for massive naked shorting...

I was hoping to post a pic but no dice. Heres a good link... http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EDJI

Weird day

OK. Well I've decided to bring the price down a bit in order to drum up a quicker sale. So Im prepared to accept 75 for one and 130 dollars U.S for both. Postage included. Also I can post them on Ebay for peace of mind with a buy it now price if you are concerened about safety of your funds...

Another photo...

Im looking to sell two different DVD's of historical data : Stocks edition and Market edition, that I purchased recently and no longer require. Im going to include a couple of photos so that you can see them. I purchased them on the 10th of April, 2010 for 250 dollars. They're current up...

What if you are trading these at a prop shop like Bright, Echotrade et al? Will people who have say 10:1 leverage be affected by these rules or is it just the same as always?