Recent content by Billf2

Sit tight - each day breath in slowly and just calmly absorb the lessons and opportunities around you in your job. The worst thing to do now is to go out on your own. You'll certainly nose dive as so many other institutional traders going out on their own have in the past. Why? Your trading...

I've found mondays to be very quiet - the spreads stay wide until around midday (Australian EST GMT+10) as the UK & US markets are still enjoying their weekend. When they do start to party, they very often overcorrect from the excess of the friday close!! In all, I stay clear of mondays until...

Why not consider online backup - I use it as another layer of backup security. My backup strategy is as follows: a) Continuous online backup using www.crashplan.com of the most important directories on our Macs (crashplan works with Macs & PCs) b) Fortnightly backups to external Lacie...

After 30 years of battling with computers of to many varieties than I care to remember, I have given all our PCs away to the compactor and replaced them with Macs - its just so relaxing now using a computer. Easy, secure (UNIX underneath), no viruses (4 for Macs, 80,000 and counting for PCs) and...

I'm looking for a source of free or inexpensive Nikkei tick (1 min) data (who isn't !!) for import into a database thence spreadsheet for some pre trading analysis. I know one - Duksacopy but their Nikkei data is only eod. Any suggestions Bill...

The Kospi is still the largest contract around. "The FIA survey ranks individual derivatives contracts by trading volume (measured by the number of contracts and not the notional value). By far the largest is the option on the Kospi 200 equity index. There were 2,837 million of these...

The Kospi is still the largest contract around. "The FIA survey ranks individual derivatives contracts by trading volume (measured by the number of contracts and not the notional value). By far the largest is the option on the Kospi 200 equity index. There were 2,837 million of these...

Some interesting history: "The Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX) started Nikkei 225 futures trading in 1986, two years earlier than the Osaka Stock Exchange (OSE). Because of its lower trading costs and less strict trading rules, SIMEX's Nikkei 225 futures attract many...

I last traded the Nikkei 225 out of SGX on the then open outcry floor traded futures pit via a broker in Mar 2002. Now I've returned and hasn't it changed - I'm doing a 30 day trial of esignal premier & Marketdelta for my market profile plots and directly onto the Osaka exchange. Stunning stuff...

ET Oanda Forexfactory - especially the FX calendar These are my top 3 - ET has quality which is what has killed Moneytec & StrategyFX (I was a long time contributor) - they went very commercial (the adds in your face drive me spare) and compromised themselves. Billf..

Forex is difficult - its certainly harder than stocks or futures in my brief (10 yrs this February) experience. But simplicity is still the best guide as usual. Recently during a period of despair, I tested the performance of a small number of blackbox systems who had the balls to publish a...