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wealth is created from nothing in a stock. you make some things called shared and someone pays money to them for you. Theoretically, you don't care if the price of the share goes up or down from there because it cost you nothing to make the shares (again, theoretically, b/c of course u give...

What I find interesting is that the govt wants the stock market to go UP and also the long term treasuries to stay up in order to reduce interest rates for borrowers. However, isn't this impossible b/c stocks and bonds almost always move inversely?

Well today marked the end of my short the bond experiment. It blew me out for 17k..... Don't try to fight the goverment is the moral of the story I guess......although I am not quite sure how they plan to have stocks go up while at the same time keeping bond yields down..... good luck to...

Getting killed so far. I thought i timed the short entry right, but after a few days of going my way it reversed big time today.... ..... serves me right for trying to do this with futures : )

Well it's not really going up either. Today when it was tracking the SP500 it had more downside than upside (i.e went down with SP higher more than it went up with SP lower). I honestly don't think at all that the fed is buying T futures. as far as i can see it's just bouncing of support...

Looks like the shorts are starting to run out of ammo.... Every time they go to 132'110-160 support area, it goes back up hard and they can't seem to break down through it. Also, the 10 year note yesterday showed surprising increased BTC ratio 2.59 and the yield went down.....so people...

Well I can tell you with total certainty that OQ does NOT backtest 5 years in 1 minute : ) That is quite impressive. Although I said backtesting speed is not a "main concern", if you are indeed able to achieve such a significant increase in speed, that would be interesting for me I would...

I was going to wait until TickZoom gained some traction to check it out : ) but i might do it sooner. OQ is fast enough for me, Honestly when I backtest like 3 month daytrading strategies I take a walk away from my computer : ) Tradelink is probably a little faster than OQ (but I...

I ended up eliminating NT. It's good software and certainly useful for discretionary traders but it's limited (for example, there's no tickdata backtesting allowed, even though they provide a sort of "hack" to backtest on 1 min timeframe that was not sufficient for me) Openquant is much...

Hello, I have some strategies running on custom C# code directly with TWS Api. I am looking to rewrite them for a more robust trading/backtesting platform such as OpenQuant or NinjaTrader. I downloaded both and am playing around with them but since OQ only offers 30 day trial, I wanted...

Are you saying "former" as a problem b/c you now have to pay for it? Or because you can't make your own custom changes to it (besides teh strategy buildg etc). I am actually looking into it and i wanted to know if there's anything specifically wrong with OpenQuant that you found?

Wayne, I think your idea is very interesting. There is currently something similar out there called TradeLink Suite http://code.google.com/p/tradelink/ which has historical backtesting, live trading and works on tickdata (can create bars etc). It has the base of what you are trying to...

A friend showed me his ATS system that made $140000 over the last 2 months trading just 4 contracts of ES per turn. the system is basically trend following and does well in markets that have large strong moves upside/downside In my opinion, he's had such success mostly because of the...

For STOP LMT on CME, trading say ES, what would difference btw the trigger and lmt price would u use to make it work like a Market (i.e make sure it fills)? Do you really think someone would run my stop? It's not like i'm trading 100 cars lol!

I stopped trading options with IB because of all of those reasons. I wanted to develop API but all this restrictiveness made it not worthwile. Even discretionary trading, I was routinely charged cancellation fees at the end of the month I dunno if this policy which I think is very bad has...

I wanted to know what you guys think about IB "simulated" stops for CME I have two options. either put in a STP order in TWS and it's simulated by IB and triggers and becomes a MKT order OR let an ATS track the stop price and put in a MKT order when it's triggered (the ATS is already all...

Yeah why did it go up so much? I noticed it went up RIGHT after closing of ES, NQ and YM. Do you think it was people heding indexes going up on monday by long oil (the two have been pretty well correlated overall...)

Thanskgiving CME hours (ES) Just a quick question about trading hours coming up --- Wednesday, November 26 1515 CT – Regular CME Globex close for trade date Wednesday, November 26 1530 CT – Regular CME Globex open for trade date Friday, November 28 Note: Day/Session orders entered...

so uhm hypothetically, if you did max them out and citi DID go under, that would mean what exactly?? if the bank gets taken over, don't you still have to pay back the loans/credit card balances to the bank lol??? (not making fun, i really want to know cuz i have citi credit cards : )

And probably the majority of people on this board don't have more than 250k of cash anyway : ) I know I dont!