Recent content by rmiller3

I'm looking for information & recommendations on forex options brokers. Ideally, I'm looking for a broker that offers forex & forex options on the same platform, offers cross-margining & shows you margin requirements of a position before you put it on, and has an option profit graph...

I'm looking for a broker to use for futures options. My main criteria is the interface - I want to find one with a good calculator that can calculate profit graphs & margin requirements for futures & future options. So far I like optionxpress the best because of its trade calculator, but they...

I'm looking for a broker to use for futures options. My main criteria is the interface - I want to find one with a good calculator that can calculate profit graphs & margin requirements for futures & future options. I have looked at optionsxpress & ameritrade, and IB (very slightly). So far I...

Many daytrading systems I look at will generate different numbers of signals each day, from 1 to 3 to 20. How do you decide how much to allocate to each trade, when you don't know how many trades there will be that day? I have found two approaches so far. Either put all of your money into the...

Are you a quant or algo trader in Dallas? Let's meet tomorrow (Saturday) at the west village starbucks at 9:30 am. Group and directions here: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/dallasquants/

I'm looking to backtest performance of an automated high-frequency strategy on 100+ stocks, going back for a year of tick data. Is there any retail platform that will accomodate this, and includes the tick data? Thanks, Russell

I'm looking to backtest performance of an automated strategy on 100+ stocks, going back for a year of tick data. Is there any retail platform that will accomodate this, and includes the tick data? Thanks, Russell

What is the smallest realistic stop I could use on a 30 min trade of liquid stocks, and not get bounced out immediately? (my universe: 1 penny spread, 5 mil shares/day volume, and minimum price of $20) I am trying to do backtesting, and I would like to find a good average value to use...