Recent content by sheepsucker

Well, the reason people think like this is exactly why I want to invest there.

Hi, I would like to buy the Ukraine stock index basically. Is there any broker that would provide Ukraine stocks to EU/US citizens?

Looks like a good app, downloaded it and setting it up at the moment. Your backtesting results sound a little too good to be entirely accurate unfortunately. Did you clean the data somehow and check it for bad ticks, count commissions etc.?

Didnt occur to me to use an old school telephone, but will see where it leads.

Hi, Does anyone know how I can get long the Cyprus stock index? Could be an ETF or some other index product. My current broker is IB and I did not find such a product in their lists.

Thanks! Have you traded any options on individual stocks on Tokyo exchange?

Hi, I am looking to diversify my options trading outside US. Is anyone here trading options in eg. Europe or Tokyo? What exchanges and how is the liquidity? I see that at least IB doesnt provide as good scanners for anything outside US. Have you found someone else that can provide good...

Ok tnx. In this particular case of a big gap against the order it looks like it could even be an advantage to not be first in line.

Hi, I trade in relatively thinly traded options so it can take some days for me to get filled. Therefore I sometimes place a GTC order and have it active for a couple of days waiting for a fill. Last week I had a GTC order active to sell PUT options in stock XYZ for a limit price of 0.10...

tnx rosy! will try it out. Sofar it has seemed ibosa and twstools are the best solutions.

Thank you all for your suggestions! Will look into them to see if I can avoid re-inventing the wheel this time. No suggestions for scripts using the R package IBrokers so far? The rest of my algorithms are in R, altough that doesnt actually matter in this case.