Recent content by Negative Theta

Here are my 2 cents: 1. You traded SPOT back in the '90? Things have changed quite a lot since then... Regarding the manipulation, as someone said previously they can't manipulate too much because those who do arbitrage will jump immediately and take advantage. 2. Yes you are right, the CB's...

Guys, currency market is no different than other markets, of course it has its particularities but every market is special in its own way. Be it OTC or not there are pros and cons. What I don't like here is the leverage that some brokers are advertising. It is so insane and stupid to brag with...

Imo, no, it's not 50/50. You have the costs of the trades too.

Exactly! The trading logic layer algorithm should be separated as much as possible from the broker layer API. The algo only should be concerned that the market API manager layer (whoever it is) is going to work. algo { marketAPISession.executeMarket("dax","long", 1000) } The algo doesn't...

You nailed it. In my opinion, in this industry, it is much natural to start as a discretionary trader and then learn to write code and find your balance between a discretionary and systematic approach, as opposed to start as a programmer and learn how to trade. The thing is that in trading, you...

You are right. I'm one of that person who gave up many times at the beginning, but in the end I made it. My background is finance, but with hard work and many many sleepless nights, I managed to grasp it. Now I'm quite efficient in low languages like c/c++ or higher lang like Python. What I...

Technically speaking, they could. Given that Metatrader knows exactly where your expert advisor script or the DLL file is on the disk, then the software could very easily open it, maybe serialize it and then send to one of their servers. Actually MT for sure loads the EA scripts in the app...

For those who want to go further, I recommend some more complex models like Ornstein-Uhlenbeck(best for mean reverting regimes). Heston model is a very interesting one but be aware that is next to impossible to calibrate Heston if you have only the time series of the given instrument. You need...

I tend to disagree. I think that to a certain extent what you said its true, but let's not forget something: money can't buy everything, talents have their way.

Hi, Latency seems to be quite a hot topic over here and a little overhyped in my opinion. If you don't do HFT, forget latency. Beside all the classic cliches of trading, I would recommend to pay attention to a thing which you just pointed: "It's not just ALL automatic, for instance, is it? The...