Recent content by danw

Seems obvious to me, but having a larger universe ie all stocks gives your system a chance to pick the best instrument where you have a trade signal. If you're only on SPY & QQQ and there are no good trade opportunities for that week, what do you do? Even if there was a signal, if you had...

If you want easy to use and multi strategy portfolio level backtests then RealTest is the one. But you need to code your live trading algo separately. TradingView pine script is also very easy but does not execute trades (however you can code alerts that will send to another system to trigger...

1. Depends on how much you're willing to lose when you have consecutive drawdowns. If you're cutting losses then it's likely the loss rate > 50%. Having 5-15 losses in a row is not unheard of, so if losing 15% of your account is just about right then 1% is a good starting point. Of course that...

ok thanks, I contacted Ironbeam and seems decent. Just need to find out their interest rate if can still earn interest on cash balances, and if can create/quote on custom price spreads.

Any good calendar spread trades on palm oil and rubber? I don't know the markets to be honest, but always interested to look at something new... Not sure if the usual seasonality research providers would cover these markets, does MRCI cover them?

Hi, Curious if you're running under and entity (company, trust, LLC etc) or just an individual? IBKR charges me a fortune for data because they think using an entity for tax reasons makes me a pro :( So I'm looking to change brokers, this ironbeam deal sounds like a great thing but I don't know...