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  1. Ivano

    Trading on Linux

    I am a linux lover, and now as an android developer i am obliged to use a mac silicone arm, and i gotta say do not regret this choice, you have the power of a real unix system optimized on a wonderful machine. Still I run some virtual machine and in the week end i love to see an already seen...
  2. Ivano

    Options only to understand us securities

    thank you everybody, and i like the book reccomended by @murray t turtle Please @newwurldmn could you expand over the concept of rarity about correlation between options and price of stocks? I am ignoring indexes because the strong hedging function of the options make as a different game to...
  3. Ivano

    Trading on Linux

    Linux works great, IB worked almost perfect, if you should experience whatever limitation and have enough memory RAM, you can also ran virtually windows operative system in a virtual machine as the software virtual box, or use wine that natively allows to use windows library. (For macos users...
  4. Ivano

    Options only to understand us securities

    Disclaimer: options newbe post, please feel free to skip if you do not have time! I met few really successful stock/future traders in all the time-frames, that have constant edge and trade for a living and they do not know nothing about options, although they are often open to learn always from...
  5. Ivano

    What are you presently reading?

    landed here finding your posts due to the dao iconogram, I am into taoism and i am convinced that it helps with trading
  6. Ivano

    Academic journals?

    I suggest you the long buy from oppenheimer, chief equity at Goldman, he makes plain english explanations and refer to a lot of macroeconomic interesting papers in the notes, then you can narrow to find specific topics from the link above, i suggest you this approach because if you do not have...
  7. Ivano

    Institutional Buying/Selling

    Yes is a good strategy to entangle some level of complexity. I am backtesting the smarties for my retail purposes; thanks, will look into volatility, although i think I am on the right track with the greeks Yes is everything i want, wanna stay on their gigantic shoulder for a short ride, but...
  8. Ivano

    Institutional Buying/Selling

    Moving my first steps in understanding makers, the hedge funds and the pension funds, so i apologize if i may be not exact in the following assumptions; The point is that i know only the print and not the direction, but I can see the put and call of the ticker,normalize the ratio if i think...
  9. Ivano

    Institutional Buying/Selling

    There are a lot of services that offer to retail dark pools printing and call put options. Combining them with price action/chart volume a retail can have a better understanding of smart money flow or is still utopic? I am using tradytics since a couple of days and i like it, please...
  10. Ivano

    Dark Pools final round

    I subscribed to a service called tradytics, so far I am loving it, for less than 50 eu per month. I guess the 200 eu is FlowTrade which with my account cannot afford.
  11. Ivano

    Dark Pools final round

    you can click these: here a critic post from ET here BOP MoneyStream TSV OBV Whereas with the blackboxstock tool you recommended me i would see the big dark prints that are missing? I did not find a link speaking about the quality of the specific dark pool quantitative comparison between...
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    Dark Pools final round

    After exhaustive research,largely influenced by your recommendations, I decided i will go with unusualwhales for 1 month, looks the right way to start considering quality/pricing My plan is * To combine with bop, vts, moneystream and obv from tc2000 indicators * compare with freeservices (also...
  13. Ivano

    Dark Pools final round

    Now i am coming with another important question: on which time frame dark pools are relevant? I am into daily/weekly most of my time, could be that the advantage i get from these tools may be minimal
  14. Ivano

    Dark Pools final round

    Good tip, cost 100 eu per month but there is not trial. On the other side I like the educational section. Maybe I could give it a try a month that i foreseen a change in the market, and that have more free time so to learn so to understand the absolute value of a print may be a buy or a sell...
  15. Ivano

    Dark Pools final round

    @Robert Morse thank you, I did not think about the possibility to use one of the services you mention. At the moment viewing them is fine, I use indeed also API to backtest and do stock selection usually alpaca, so could be also interested. @Sprout indeed finviz is great for several helicopter...
  16. Ivano

    Dark Pools final round

    Dear All, (from the future index forum got recommended to write in the stocks forum, but i see that stocks forum is related to single stocks ex OXY,AAPL etc) I want to know what big institutions are buying. Is said that volume is a good way to indicate institutions activity, and so is the...
  17. Ivano

    Is trading easy?

    I do not want to continue cause @SunTrader expressed his opinion of not speaking of dark pools for futures, and i respect cause is an estimated member of the forum and i guess experienced, just briefly: I am indeed using weekly more and more, but I forgot that I read was representative of the...
  18. Ivano

    Is trading easy?

    Oh! If i am wrong I apologize I explain you my train of thought if you lend me your ears for a minute: I decided to dedicate the weekend to ATS studies, so I run also a research in Elitetrader for `Dark Pools` key words and found 4 recent results were pointing to this thread: Is trading easy...
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    Is trading easy?

    The point I would focus is: Do Dark pools affect us as retail traders? Are then Volume and put/call options ratio less indicative measures of smart money accumulation? if yes the countermeasure is: how do we monitor the real flow?
  20. Ivano

    Prove to me that Technical Analysis Works.

    Dear fellow trader/investor I see you gotta a lot of likes and also you reply in the automated trading forum, so you suggest montecarlo simulation that is based on statistics. I am not an expert but would we have some common ground saying that there are a lot of documented traders that do...
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