Recent content by phantomdereal

I backtested my strategy on DIA and SPY by using IQFeed minute data. Their data quality is fairly good but can only go back to May 2007. Now I would like to do a more extended backtest to cover the much more quiet time between 2004 and 2007. I did some research on the net and till now only...

Because if I lose RDP connection to my VPS, I will have no way knowing whether the data is still connected or not...

Thank you WinstonTJ for your reply. The reason I want this kind of alarm is because I want to be prepared when I am sleeping and in the meantime may have some positions in the market. When I was trading my strategy on my own computer, I wrote a small disconnection-check-indicator on my...

Not sure whether I should ask this question in automated trading board. But I believe a lot of you have faced the same problem. Briefly, I am running my automated system on an VPS. Since I am in Asia, most my trading actually happened while I am sleeping. Although the VPS so far is pretty...

I am currently living in Shanghai and doing my future algo-trading everynight. Not familiar with Forex though. Definitly interested in meeting more trading friends around.

Thank you for all the replies here. The reason I asked this question is for the subsequent validation of each system. As I thought more about it, I realized that anytime I use a logic OR in my system, I start to separate it into two or more systems. Now I know why OR has a lower priority than...

I am currently backtesting my system and facing a problem. The problem is whether I should treat my long&short trading strategy as one system or separate them as two. My set-up for both long and short are the same but the filters for each are set differently.