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    Anyone know if Maestro is still in the game?

    His setup looked remarkably similar to R.G. Niederhoffer https://harvardmagazine.com/2008/09-images/0908-18-002-500.jpg I tried Maestro’s Stealth Trader software when it was still available to the public and never found it to be of much value.
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    Most helpful trading books

    Investing in the Modern Age by William T. Ziemba
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    Building your own program to live trade with IB?

    The TWS API is simple, but it is missing a lot of pieces for a fully automated system. You need to write your own trade and position management, and real-time PnL/risk. You also need to consider the effect of pending/partial orders on your trading strategy.
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    Algorithm to identify parabolic price action in stocks?

    Take a look at Log-Periodic Power Law (LPPL) / Sornette.
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    Automated Equity Options Trading System - seeking input

    If anyone is interested to run this system against their own IB paper trading account, I can share the compiled trading engine JAR (restricted to IB simulated account) and provide a VPN connection to my analytics server. Feel free to PM me...
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    Interactive Java API historical downloader

    What is the contract? I can give you sample Java code.
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    Automated Equity Options Trading System - seeking input

    I wrote it in Java. There are 3 components - market data server, analytics engine, and trading engine. The components communicate through a RabbitMQ broker and historical data is stored in Hadoop. The trading engine runs a model portfolio (which assumes fills at the bid/ask) and continuously...
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    Automated Equity Options Trading System - seeking input

    Thanks for the comments. I have traded/developed live and the drawdowns (sometimes exceeding -$10k) combined with a relatively unproven system made it a very excruciating process. I will be the first to admit that I have booked huge losses from panic selling. The unusual divergence between the...
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    Automated Equity Options Trading System - seeking input

    Some background: I posted on ET 10+ years ago under a different moniker. In 2011, I handed all of my accounts to UBS due to lack of time, but after the VIX spike in February this year, I knew that I wanted to get back to trading... Subsequently, I spent Feb-June researching and developing an...
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