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My S&P position didn't move at all. But in this situation I would have shorted the dollar index for the same amount I was long the contracts. Since I invested in a dollar based index, to mitigate the market risk of a dollar devalution, is it an advantage to short the dollar? Does anyone...

This shows points one one contract. I guess the first chart was too big sorry.

Alright for the past month I've been trying to form a decent strategy. I learned about backtesting and developed a VB.net program to sift through the data. I tried a bunch of short-term systems I found in trading books, you know buy-and-sell given a bunch of of indicators such as volatility...

For simplicity's sake, let's say I'm only interested in trading the S&P. Does it make sense to calculate the real value of the index in terms of the dollar vs. a basket of other currencies(ie the dollar index)? Let's say the S&P stays at 1300 for a given period of time. Over that same time...

Can I get in with no money down?

sign me up

The thing is, I think the increase in demand from the mentioned countries is already priced into the commodities.

I've only traded for a little more than a year now. So I don't know but, what's the deal with insurance? Does it work like any other insurance? against a bankruptcy etc.?

my comment was just that, a comment. I've tried the setup several times in large-cap stocks and have been shaken out almost everytime. Really nothing behind my comment.

doesn't work on stocks.

cybertrader has a program where you can trade funny money

It's just that my account declined by about 20%. Had a bunch of losers. I trade forex purely discretionally so it wasn't a system. Just got on the wrong side of some big moves. The sleeping thing. I like to wake up and put around 3 and trade the euro. Found out the night before I fell asleep...

I trade the yen and euro. I caught the big run up in the dollar last week. I'm flat right now. I never want to go into the weekend with a position. Besides I've been having a couple of rough weeks, sleeping through a trade with no stop in, etc. just be careless. Oh what charting software...

great post

I'm going against the popular view, at least what I think the popular view is from watching CNBC, and say that the FED won't stop until 7%.

http://www.virtualstockmarkets.com/ not what I was really looking for. Although I see how this makes sense. This link is like a market polling or survey. What are you going to trade tomorrow? Enough participants and it might give some insight. Sounds like right know though, nothing...

Alright I've come to point where I've backtested enough technical indicators in enough different markets . . .MA's in gold, volume@resistance in SPY, ADI in bonds . . the list goes on. How useful is this data anyway? Even if a strategy is stellar, isn't there a chance that the profits will...

One thing I can so far is that they suck at finding your test scores.

yeah him and Terry Okura in LA. Adam is still with the Miami Beach office, as of about 6 months ago. Anybody know anything about the Brooklyn office?

The traders in this example see a difference in the price of the two markets. Ideally the two prices will converge somewhere in the middle. The "low" price in the US will call arbitraguers to step in drive up the price, because they know the gold in India is more expensive. The same thing...