Search results

Only Yahoo knows the IPs and they won't give it to anyone without court order/ FBI badge. Set up your own web site, and put a link to that site into email message, and send that message to yourself. Now on your own web site you can see IP adresses of whoever has clicked the link. Of...

Interesting, those who take on these risks, will they be able to pay in case of massive defaults? Is that risk reflected in their balance sheet? Shouldn't central banks be worried?

If one can make on average 1.5%/day (I say nothing about whether it is actually possible or not), it is very easy to avoid "risk of ruin" altogether. Just withdraw the original invested money after your first 100% gain (47 days on average). Even if all the remaining money in the account turns to...

Just for the sake of balance: http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/coral2.html "You cannot change the acidity of any part of your body except your urine. Your bloodstream and organs control acidity in a very narrow range. Anything that changed acidity in your body would...

Almost all annoying ads use Flash technology. My solution: I have two browsers installed - explorer and firefox. In explorer, flash is completely disabled and forbidden to remind of itself. If I need to watch YouTube or anything else that use Flash, I launch Firefox.

Thanks, but haven't cracked anything yet - that's all paper dreams ... Got about 300k 1-minute bars for ES. Would love to have more data, and at higher resolution. Anyone willing to share :) ?

Tweaked a system a liitle bit, the result over 99 days: conf 13.13 conf1 6.07 av% 1.60 n 215 +161 -54 result 343% Decent average gain, frequency about 2 signals per day, so majority of days have at least one signal, that's what we look for. Can we improve more?

What about a B. job? Hard to fill.

Very interesting. Seems like S&P leads in most cases, which is consistent with a notion that markets reflect future economic moves. Any futures on PCE ? :)

I see many use "targets" as exit rules. Like sell when price rises 10 points from where I bought; or sell if price drops 2 points from where I bought. But the market price does not depend on where you bought! So WTF.

Some backtesting results on 99-days period Sep06-Feb07: conf 3.13 conf1 3.36 av% 0.94 n 103 +68 -35 result 97% Where "conf" and "conf1" are confidence values, computed by two slightly different formula. Approximately, it is -log10(propability to achieve that result randomly). In fact...

I looked this up and found that options for majority of stocks have HUGE spreads, something like bid 0.05 ask 0.20. Decent spreads exist only on few very popular stocks like MSFT and ORCL. But these stocks are like forex or futures - everyone plays them, therefore harder to find an edge there.

While waiting for paperwork to clear, continue to double-check the system. Split adjustments are pain in the ass. I store end of day quotes in a database, and there is an "adjclose" column to account for splits / dividents. Real time quotes are in plain binary files, not adjusted. If I want...

Applied to the broker online, received some agreements to sign, and they requested a notarized copy of my passport. Printed, signed and sent them by mail. Now waiting for confirmation of account opening before wiring my $3k to them.

I am a poor noob without much experience in trading, but with some know-how in computer programming. After many years of hard working I was able to save $3k. In fact, a little more than that, but that's what I am willing to risk. I know you elite traders are all millionairs and will tell...

20% a month is 3200% in 19 months. Realistic.

I originally wrote my backtesting code in C++. Then decided to move to C# (Microsoft's analog of Java). The program ran 10 times slower! I looked into it - it wanted to verify every array boundary, couldn't do any inlining, couldn't use any MMX instruction. After tweaking with compiler options...

I opened an account with a broker and they provide CyberTraderPro for entering orders (see how it looks in the attached picture). I have my quotes from another source, but I want to send orders automatically, because the time is essential for my strategy. Anyone tried to program...

Wrong. Every time I disconnect and connect again to the internet I receive a new random IP address from my internet provider. Someone else receives my old IP address. So if you ban by IP, you will ban that poor innocent guy who happened to receive the IP address I used before.

I'm in the same boat. I have an intraday trading idea (an "edge") and I just don't want to put up $25k to start testing my idea. All I am willing to risk is $3k. So I asked on that forum and received some directions. Now I think I found a solution, that's questrade.com. It's a Canadian...