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I think it's a mistake to read too much into very high frequency trading strategy backtesting without accounting for the trade execution slippage characteristics associated with a live market order book - especially given how modest the average winner is. Not a critique necessarily, just a dose...

Just to set the record straight, this was NOT me. Some other 'professor'.

I have heard the exact same thing from clients who come to me clearing IB. Same same for the more retail and scalping/day trading oriented 'discount' introducing brokers or brokers with give-up agreements with true FCMs. You really can, in fact, start an account with a major Chicago FCM with...

Under no circumstances should you be soliciting advice on a public internet forum, that's for sure. I personally won't buy lotto tickets because $ 200 million is just not worth the hassle.

I am an expert on the topic, and most spread orders are usually executed electronically as exchange-supported instruments these days. You can use any limit order or most other strategy that is supported by that particular exchange's order matching algorithm. And that includes stop limit orders...

So, the Initial Margin Requirement to carry a May - June 12 Calendar Spread overnight is $945. You get the margin credit whether you legged into them manually or you simply bought or sold the exchange supported spread. For day trading purposes, most Chicago FCM risk managers will assign spread...

Since you have now gone ahead and gotten yourself banned from ET due to your bipolar idiocy, I will post this for the record:

Since you have now gone ahead and gotten yourself banned from ET due to your bipolar idiocy, I will post this for the record:

Since you have now gone ahead and gotten yourself banned from ET due to your bipolar idiocy, I will post this for the record:

Think about this carefully, because if Grand Super Cycle gets banned, we will have banished the most consistent and best performing contrarian indicator known to finance. And I am serious, his contrarian ROI metrics are stunningly good. Better than most Hedge Fund Portfolio Managers and...

The real issue with Grand Super Cycle is that he duplicates posts and threads in the most populated and over-utilized Forum on the website: "Trading". He is draining website resources, and crowding out more constructive and useful threads with his high frequency nonsense. The "Trading"...

I'm guessing cost is the key driver because that's the only way you could test your system in the real world. Making silly claims and trolling for investors aint gonna work from what I've seen. My two cents.

Dolt: Read the CIA's commentary. Your motherland is run by thugs and gangsters who take whatever they want and do whatever they want. Honestly, who knows what the economy's metrics are, because all of it seems to be controlled by ex-KGB thugs. Intelligence demands that you read into the CIA's...

Trade SPY for God's sake - super cheap, and the bids and offers flow tic for tic with the ES I would imagine.

There has actually been only one confused troll for the past four months.

Proper dynamic hedging requires upper management knowledge and complete ownership. Any good spread trader with an intimate knowledge of the Company's cost basis and forward commodity requirements can structure a competent hedging program if indeed that individual is empowered by the Company's...

This entire discussion is pointless - without hydrocarbons there is no Russian economy or technology drivers. No sane person would innovate or invent or take risk in a country where there is no legal structure to protect any of it.

Just condense all of these incredibly wrong call headlines and dates and put it in your post signature like he does with you. Turnabout is fair play.

Absolutely, 100 percent correct. The market only goes up or down. I think the issue is that anyone trading for a living or as a serious investor is using leverage, and suffering a thirteen or twenty percent drawdown unleveraged is a disaster leveraged. Hence, the perils of market timing.

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