Recent content by smili

Could be related to recent ZTE news http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-d-c-lobbyists-got-chinas-zte-off-the-hook/

Hi all, I've done a web search on this, but am not finding what I'm looking for. Basically I'm wanting to analyze my historical trades in the context of a visual stock chart, with the buy and sale trades overlayed onto the charts. Is anyone aware of a site that would allow me to input my buy...

One of the best arguments imho is that there is really only one index - a single global, whole world, cap weighted index. Any deviation from that is necessarily an "active" choice as to allocation. So to the degree that we deviate from that global index, we are all "active" investors.

If you're into podcasts, check out the "Better System Trader" podcasts. Lots of interviews with professionals that give perspective. http://bettersystemtrader.com/ I'm more of an investor, trying to learn trading, and I find these very helpful. In my experience, systematic trading is more...

Some companies it's difficult to see the big collapse coming (strong fundamentals sometimes aren't as strong as I think they are), and difficult to know whether things or temporary or not, but yes, panic sells are generally bad, bad, bad in my experience. I have a history of selling lows that...

Panic sells reveal themselves with hindsight, but the last memorable panic sell - that feeling of fear - was last October when the oil stocks were diving hard. In hindsight I think it was a lot of forced selling from over-leveraged investors, but I exited several positions that would've been...

Thanks for the comment. I think I understand what you're saying, but I'm not trying to catch a mid-day low for a buy. I'm placing orders to buy on the open and seem to be getting what I'd expect. (My buy signal is based purely on the market state existing at the end of the previous day.) I...

I can't remember the source, but there's a saying along lines of: "When luck plays a significant part in the outcome, focus on process." I thought I remember a Howard Marks discussion on it, but can't find a quote attributed to him.

Thanks for the feedback from everyone. Appreciated. Yes, it's long only presently: it has several entry conditions - some dependent on market state - but it buys the dip in individual stocks below short term MA, and then sells on a close when it moves back over the short term MA. It's...

I don't know if this fits what you're looking for, but there is a coursera course on computational investing that might be worth taking. https://www.coursera.org/course/compinvesting1

Hi all, I was wondering if there are traders out there who trade based on eod systems, but place trades intraday? if so, do you have rules of thumb you utilize for when to take an intraday trade, and when to wait? In particular - I'm specifically wondering about the sell. Ex: If I check...

Hi all, I'm the OP. Just a followup on this. My experience so far trading on the open with IB was acceptable, although I didn't always get the stated opening price - maybe a few pennies higher on a couple trades. (I'd select to trade Mkt on OPG in their dropdown and direct to NYSE if...

I've mostly been a longer term investor for years who is relatively new to more frequent trading, but what I'm doing is entirely system based (mean reversion - swing trades). The system selects my trades for me.