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I hope nobody feels I am spamming them with this thread. I did create it in "Journals", not sure why it was moved away from there. Well.. I have been thinking with only being in the market at 4K and there going to be several hundred transactions per year (300?) and the transaction cost probably...

@NoBias Thanks and sorry I had not found that. I did not look for the answer today but I did a while ago. (I think I did!) Thank you in any case!

Why do GTC (Good Till Cancelled) orders expire? I think it is something common across brokers and a standard or default? Is it dictated by the exchange or governing body? And why? Why would people going long on stock ever want their stops expired? I think the expiration is October 1st.

Ok backtesting suggests I should never exit trade on day #1 (with my particular strategy). I will continue to test a little further but that is what I am going with at the moment. So what I will probably do is put in a stop on day #1 that never gets hit (or very rarely) over the last X years of...

I would be curious to see an update. OP?

My backtesting code broke, with the recent changes to accomodate selling on trade day. I managed to put in much better code today and I think I am able to run it properly now. I am doing some testing now, results look worse. Results look negative actually. It looks like the sell offs on the...

No sells today, no new buys needed.

@eurusdzn you summed it up pretty well My results are way too good to be true. I'm still risking a little bit of money on it, nothing I can't live without. My thinking process has to be way off somehow. My results are likely to be flawed based on things like survivorship-bias (using stock...

I have been doing a lot of back-testing, but I have already found an issue with that. With the live trading I am "exiting" trades before my back testing software exits trades. My trailing stop is being hit (rightly so as far as I can see), but somehow my backtesting software (quantstrat) is not...

How about this: https://chartapi.finance.yahoo.com/instrument/1.0/ABR.PA/chartdata;type=quote;range=1y/csv

Hello, this is kind of an old thread I do realize, but I was doing paper trading with IB also. At some point I ran into the same issue with OPG orders. They were not getting filled. After googling it I found (and concluded) that paper trading does not properly support OPG orders. I upgraded to...

Background: I am an IT engineer, from Holland. I live in Asia and I have a full time job. I "played" some stock before won big with the banking crises (buying banks when they were at their low) and lost even bigger buying uranium mining companies after the Japan nuclear mishap. Down 30K USD to...