Recent content by juanmon

thanks!

What's the difference between getting an SSD as the "primary drive" as opposed to gettting one as a "Boot only drive"? Dell offers both options for their t5600 model and I can't figure out which one I need. Would like to have OS and trading programs on the SSD for speed, with historical and...

I think you can sort of set up basic autoexecution using their alert trading mode, but actually auto trading a full system over multiple markets can't really be done without having a programmer create a standalone module which would enter/exit positions via the API according to the CQG trading...

From what I gather, trading systems (entry, exits, position sizing etc) can be developed and backtested within the CQG trading systems function, but one cannot autotrade the finished system, especially on a portfolio of 20 or so markets. Is this correct? and if so, how would one move to...

it's amazing how much more productive you become when you shut it down. the only interesting stuff on CNBC are the infrequent interviews with genuinely sucessful managers (Einhorn, Tepper, etc) , but you can see these on thier website anyway w/o the commercials.

Much appreciated.

just to clarify, when you look at a graph of a pair to perform your analysis (quantitative backtesting, technical analysis, etc) are you looking at the ratio of the two contracts (stock price A / stock price B), or the difference of the log of the prices of the two stocks (log(stock priceA) -...

I think contractors and trading software developers all go to the same time management class.

How would you go about executing these stategies via automation. Looking at Maestro's website it doesn't seem that they provide any type of automated trading interface as Multicharts and TS.

NAV consulting (navconsulting.net) does all sort of accounting work for some of the largest CTA's / CPO's but will also service a startup for a reasonable price. they have been around for a long time as well. I believe they are in Chicago area.

I believe this refers in part to the ability to connect to Pats or TT, which many brokers have available. I have a similar problem, I would use Ninja w/ TT but my clearing firm (who I have to clear with) doesn't support Asian or LME markets via TT. The only way to get access to these markets...

esignal quotrek has a new iphone app. free for delayed qutoes, not sure what real time costs.

I'm thinking of trading LME and was wondering what types of slippage estimates people use (for typical trend following methods) for zinc, nickel and lead. I've heard $200, but from lookig at bid-offers, $200 looks o.k. in zinc and possibly lead but nickel looks like it might be more like $300...

Actually it's the retail outfits that only answer emails because they don't have the cash from institutional clients to hire staff. Professional platforms like Bloomberg and CQG always have phone support on hand. Not that there is anything wrong with this, the product and company may be great...