Recent content by cwl18

thanks, i will investigate more into it

noone else have any good feed?

nanex is good? can you tell me more why it is good? how much am i looking at to subscribe it?

hi, I am currently using zenfire to collect my data, they dont have a backfill options so if there is some reasons i miss the data, the data is lose for good. also i notice there is some missing ticks occur, without a backfill, there is no way i can confirm and check my data integrity...

luisHK, are you from HK? clayton

i use IB myself, they have an office in HK. in my own opinion, IB is top notch for professional trader. i would not recommend any brokers other than IB. besides i have not try other futures brokers clayton

i dont trade equities, i know many retail traders out there, but i am not one of them. you expect around 2-3K USD a month in expense to live in hk.

to be honest, i have not master the art of day trade, in general my day trade lose money, so i tends to avoid it. my trade are longer term, i try to move to shorter term so there are more actions. hang seng gaps so much, and the volatility during the day is not that much, again i am not...

if you don't tell uncle sam, you pay 0%. up to you if you tell or not, my broker pass no information to the tax department

I am a full time trader living in Hong Kong at the moment, been trading for the last 7 years, know Chinese and English very well. I like to find a trading buddy who I can bounce idea / share office etc. as I found trading by myself is pretty lonely. Also I have to do all the basic work...

you are right nazzdack, you need to be aware of the different rates for different participants, but you still need a number to plug into the formula. i kinda dig in a bit further and found the numbers i need from the CBOT rulebook, under the premium charges. so for historical storage...

thanks very much local. i indeed found the rates in the CME futures contracts specs pages, or http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/agricultural/grain-and-oilseed/variable-storage-rate.html where i got the value of 0.00365/bu/day in the calculator for wheats however, i cant see the...

i like to find out the carry cost for different grain markets. One thing i can't get up to date information on is the the storage cost. i know the formula is: (interest rate/12 * price per bushel + storage/insurance per bushel) * number of months between spread. i try and ring my...