Long trades: Sum of all the green candles
Short trades: Sum of all the red candles
Potential profit: Long trades + Short trades
Max profit: Potential profit * contract size
It might attract enough attention to become another payment system like Western Union, or even a tradable asset like Bitcoin, but a "reserve currency"? I don't think so.
$6 for a month? As in running your algo 24x7? That's pretty good. Anyway I get what you're saying, but I just don't see why the VPS is charging more for higher memory allocation when memory prices in general are falling.
Good point. As they say, "there's ALWAYS more than one way to skin a cat" and these external forces are (for the time being) a step or two ahead of you. So either you need to adapt to their game or perish.
Material success does not equate to happiness. On the contrary, more wealth you acquire only makes you feel more insecure, never content with what you already have. Hence, find your happiness first, then make money.
Yeah, but what happens when the fund manager loses money? I've yet to see any funds actually reimburse money to investors in such a case. At the very least, they should own up and forfeit any fees.
Beside what others already pointed out, trading your own account (unless you're a whale) is not the same as trading a hedge fund with high AUM. Everything must be recalibrated at that point and your great system might not work as once it did.
From what I know, C# is faster than Python. So C# for execution and Python for backtesting and the like.
As a noob myself, I feel your pain. Good luck.
I am in a way. But the question is does memory have much effect overall?
Anyway, I currently have 16 GB on my laptop and when I check the spec in the Task Manager, I hardly ever see the memory spike above 70% even when I open multiple charts. So I don't think it will be much of an issue with 8...
I'm pretty certain you need to have a margin account to trade futures. With options, you can only buy covered (??) calls or puts if you have a cash account. You just can't sell.
Those with cash accounts are usually less sophisticated and undercapitalized, so the Fed led us to believe when it was implemented in 2000 (I can't recall the exact date) in the midst of market meltdown due to dot.com burst.
But the real reason for the PDT, along with short sale restriction and...