Recent content by funky

yeah, just did read up on a few...still doesn't make sense to me...if it tracks it, it should track it :) what should I have done if I wanted to short gold? the catch is that I could only use an ETF, and I couldn't short because it was in a IRA account.

Back on July 24th, 2011 I bought into GLL, which is (supposedly) double the inverse of gold. Gold was about 1578 / oz then. Today, as gold drops to 1500 / oz, my GLL ETF is still -20% off the price that I bought it at. Anybody know why this happens? Unfortunately, I assumed that GLL...

do you mean why does the last image show 1321, while the others had more trades? because the last image was a slightly different system, that gave fewer trades :)

nope, guess again :)

interesting...good to hear! [b] while i could probably get a similar return on fewer stocks, i definitely wouldn't get the drawdown that i'm seeing here. i'm talking less than 2% drawdown for a 60%+ return....to me i've never seen that before :) but obviously i'm the rookie here....so i...

sweeet! :D

any "system" based off solely on one or few markets (like an ES/NQ system), just has its limits. i have never been able to get a good curve out of something like that. actually, ANY strategy on a given market will never give something like what i'm showing. you have to jump from one eq curve...

tweaking the system and getting even better results....insane...this is with $150k capital. last 6 months. insane!

yeah, actually, since i am a programmer, why would i use this thing? lol [b] jesus, tell me about it. i escaped that land by going to longer timeframes. it really does the trick (reducing the skid as an overall % of your trades). i actually DOUBLED the amount of slippage that i got over...

yeah, has anyone ever gotten the minimum $1 commission removed from his/her TS brokerage account? I am gonna ask.... [b] yeah...see the thing is, the only capital "minimum" requirement is to get around the $1 minimum commissions. the system will work with my current wad (as long as 10...

i'm glad you have confidence in me! hehe... i'll definitely report back in a few months and let you know how my fairy land trading went :D

well, porting code is easy for me. i could port it to assembly if i wanted to. :) I did see TradeBolt.com, they seem to have a piece of software that routes orders out of Tradestation and into various APIs. That might be an option with the right prop firm. don't know.

yeah, this sounds like the eventual solution for me. i think trading my own capital for a while and building up a track record should make it easier to do this. [b] makes sense. [b] right...actually, i'm starting to think that i should just find a broker that doesn't charge a...

hehe, i wish it was that easy.... [b] this system has and will remain VERY stable. i cannot go into details, obviously, but it works off of basic human behavior. I actually developed this system for intraday, and it worked beautifully, except for the slippage. I took another 3 weeks to...