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I'm presently reading 'New Market Wizards' for the umpteenth time and I was inspired to review my research into swing points in the SPI (Aussie share market futures index) after reading the interview with Victor Sperandeo. Sperandeo did historical research into the statistics of percentage...

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I have a question regarding the effect of dividend payouts on a stock market index. If a certain day has a large number of companies going ex-dividend does this whack the futures price to any degree?

Thanks for the reply. Wondering what restrictions there are on trading Index futures with IB compared to a full fee broker. Especially buying/selling MOC and MOO

I have done some searching but haven't found anything that seems to fit me well yet. Plenty of threads on brokers but I thought a specific view of my situation would be best. I trade Index futures primarily. 8 markets around the world at the moment. Also have an interest in other...

I'm trying to work out what % component of my stock movements are just general market movements. I would like to know I have some % advantage over the general market. Since I only have the day of entry and exit for each trade I'm trying to work out the best level to record for the market...

Could someone point me in the right direction if this has been covered before please. I have 100 completed live trades in a system I'm running this year. I want to run these trades through a monte-carlo test and various different MM strategies. Is this possible in Excel or I know there...

I attended a Steve Nison seminar in London a few months ago. If you don't want to read the rest of this post then I will post my summary now: My verdict: Read his books and save your money from attending his seminar. I kept wondering whether Steve has actually traded himself and have...

I look to hold my stocks for as long as I can, so am not a daytrader. For me the easier money is in the longer time frames, I'm yet to match the investing returns I get from property (hold forever) with the returns I'm getting in the financial markets. Net connection is OK, about the same...

Andrew 33 Australian living in Vilnius Lithuania Full time Trader since March 05 Index Futures and Australian equities position trades. Learning about Forex but am not sure if it's better than Index Futures. Property Investor also since 01. I think I'm the only trader living in Lithuania :)

Good replies, thanks for taking the time :) Presently I'm trading stock inidices on an EOD basis, also I'm trading equities on a position basis (14 day average hold). I have found much personal value in Larry Williams works for my own trading. Agree very much about reading outside the...

Hi there Traders. I have a lot of books in my shopping cart but don't want to buy them all at once. What would you rate as a must buy from the following list? I would like to limit my spend to around $300 this time :) "Long Term Secrets to Short Term Trading" Williams, $35 "Practical...

Good points Patch. The comments are mostly brief so the 30 pages are mainly cut and pastes of charts for later review, but it still takes several hours a week. Time well spent for me I believe. Personally the area I can most improve at the moment are my exits, I'm spending a lot of time...

Wow, excellent replies, thanks for the help :) Horribilicus I really like some of your ideas and will be implementing them, I have to find out more about RRR though. This was a very helpful post for me. Thenewguy I know some fund managers rate Sharpe as very important, I have read varying...

Hi traders, I'm interested in anything you measure about your trading that I don't. I'm a stats and metrics fan (I love Excel!) and would like to know some fields I can add to help my trading improve. Currently I have CFD, Margin and Futures trading accounts, they are largely similar in what...

Whats the difference between these two contracts? 1) SPI 200 Index Cont Liq 2) SPI 200 Index CAdj Liq I think the CAdj is just the SPI contract + the premium from the look of the numbers. I'm just trying to get my head around the ramifications for back testing, what advice is there for...

A pretty long shot I know but are there any English speaking traders in Vilnius or Lithuania?

Thanks for the replies. Yep the girls are very pretty, food fantastic and winters cold.

Hi there from Vilnius. I'm an Aussie trader living in Vilnius and am trying to get more in tune with the European equity markets to help with my sleep patterns, being up at 3am to watch the open of the Aussie market is not much fun. Look forward to participating in the forums. Cheers...