Recent content by jrp

Here is the difference between poker/chess algo and trading algo: Poker/Chess has definite fixed hard rules. Well guess what, trading does not have any such. That is why your analogy does not apply IMHO and there can not be a perfect trading system because there are huge number of...

Yeah, exactly on that chicken-egg thing. I believe finding a trading idea is a matter of thinking hundreds of ideas and coding them and testing each of them to find out if it works or does not. It may take 6 months or even a year. @RosyScenario : My advice to you is - dont get engulfed too much...

Please do not discourage anybody simply because your friend is "DONE" with it. Nobody said creating a successfully trading system is easy. Heck, trading is not easy for that matter. But then nothing worth doing is easy. Great or impossible things are achieved by people who didn't know that it...

hmm, May be just a decent stop-loss with market order should suffice..

Yes exactly. And in such case if i was long on future contract, i would be saved.. my risk-covering strategy basically

1245, first thanks for replying.. I know, but i want to make my strategy rock-solid .. meaning- I don't want to assume and say "if something never happened earlier wont happen in near future." There is always a slight probability of some huge event... especially in today's world. And i just...

Hello Folks, I am trying to build a auto-strategy for intraday trading of futures. I (my program) want to buy a SPX PUT as first step in the morning and close it as the last step just before the market closes. I am trying to cover the risk of market closing during trading hours because of some...