Recent content by Logic

I'm Philadelphia regional and trade from home. There are only three places that I know of that actually have sit-in offices: * T3 Live, located in Jenkintown. * Coastal Trade Securities, at 19th and Arch. * AMR Trading, at the PHLX. Geoff Aton runs the place; he's a nice guy, though I've...

I've lost about 70k over the years (not all of it my own money) before figuring things out.

Mozilla.org is a non-profit. You can't trade it. You can short MSFT or GOOG, but those two companies are much larger than their browser business, so caveat emptor.

I haven't seen anything that says you can't. I don't know for certain what legal issues there are, if any, and I know some US traders do (trade with Canadian firms.) In any case, I'm going ahead and doing it anyway.

Canadian firms offer lower commissions ($.20/1000 to $1.00/1000) and lower payouts (50% to 80%). American firms charge higher commissions ($1.25/1000 to $5.00/1000), but give higher payouts (80%-95%.) Some screwballs try to get you to pay more than $5/1000, but you're better off ignoring them...

That is true. Here's an example of what he meant though: if (high of this bar < high of last bar + standarddeviation(high, 5 bars)) then sell 1*10^15 shares market; If the high of this bar goes too much higher, then it'll no longer be a sell signal.

For your strategy, did you develop your own ParseFeed(), ParseMessage(), SendOrder() and etc functions, or are they currently just empty shells? If your strategy has been coded theoretically only, I'd suggest looking into Tradelink (tradelink.google.com), OpenQuant (www.smartquant.com), or...

Anyone doing this? What issues should I watch out for? (I'm thinking as pertains to legal issues, tax filing and accounting, specifically - though any other advice is appreciated.)

From what I'm gathering, this is what you're hypothesizing: * A backtest using data that's 1 bar old outperforms a backtest using data that's 2 bars old * Therefore, if going live where we can react to the current bar, it should outperform the 1-bar-back backtest in the same way the...

I was going through the steps to set up an account with these guys. Before I actually deposited my capital, however, my point of contact left the firm. He recommended against opening an account with these guys. According to him, there's been a relatively large shakeup within the company and...

JCTrading is a division of OceanView. I can't say much about OceanView itself, but JCTrading seems to have a good reputation here on ET.

What methods can you use to check if a trading group or prop firm is reliable before signing up with them and giving them your money? Do they have to register with the SEC and FINRA (regardless of country)? Does that only apply to broker-dealers? I've gone primarily by...

A day-to-day change doesn't mean much - the stocks could've just as easily fallen by just as much the day before. You might be better off looking on a weekly scale if you want to use market performance to develop a bias.