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Are Yobo or JohnySharp still around and pairtrading? Just curious why some of the really successful guys stopped posting in this thread.

Jesus, the guy filming that video sounds like he is about to keel over and die! I'm a paramedic so take my advice with a grain of salt, I'm no doctor, but I've seen enough medical emergencies to know that is congestive heart failure or a stroke waiting to happen. Whoever that is filming...

Thanks for your reply. So it's best to pair trade liquid stocks and stay away from low volume names. What about holding long term and not trading them short-term? To go for a larger % gain on the trade that will offset getting screwed on the entry / exit?

Anyone? I'm thinking stocks under between 75m - 150m market cap. Probably get hurt on bid / ask spread in less liquid names, but at least the opportunity wouldn't be immediately taken away by the big guys...

Thanks for your response Swan! Just to clarify if 100% of my cash is in use and some of my margin... commissions, fees and interest come out of unused margin?

I've always traded in a cash account. Now that I've become more confident in my trading style I'd like to bring in some modest leverage... Say I have a margin account with $25,000 at IB. This gives me 2x buying power. If I buy $30,000 worth of stock and hold the positions for a couple...

I've been experimenting with a strategy that fades stocks that run up before earnings for whatever reason and then beat earnings and run up further. Hence I'm going to short bofa at open.

Great journal! Lescor, or anyone else who knows, how is the mean calculated? And what amount of time do you look back for it? I know this is a pretty subjective question just wanted to get RTM traders opinion on what works best. Thanks!

Put on the following: Long TAC @ 20.27 Short NI @ 22.28 Yobo and Jonny are you guys still trading stock pairs or did you switch to ETFs?

I think this would be a good short term trade: Buy AMZN / Sell COST

Does anyone have any success with in this space? It seems that quants / HFT have taken over any opportunities in larger cap stocks. Obviously you can, and people do make money here (I know people on this board do) but its tough. I was thinking the small cap area might be easier because...

Arb-Maker looks like pretty cool software... How are you liking it? Would you say it is better than PairTradeFinder?

Hey, You don't use stops in your strategy, right? Instead control risk by having many small positions? When days like today happen I don't see how you can justify that as a good strategy. I mean you started this journal in an environment where every dip was bought over and over again...

I have a new system I want to test out... What is the best way to test it? Isn't there a way to make IB think an account is live where I could get accurate ideas of slippage / commissions. Next step I will go live with very small size but I'd rather try to paper trade the system first if...

Has anyone designed a system either partially or fully automated using Sierra's worksheets? It looks very similar to Excel and (not having great knowledge of coding) it seems like a good way to automate my ideas. My methods are very simple using percentages, no technical analysis. I have...

Looking at individual stocks.... I don't see the point of back-testing 1 or 5 or even 10 years back. All I want is a general idea of what is happening NOW. I'm looking at how a stock has acted over the previous 10 sessions and getting descent results going into the 11th day... Picking 10...

What would you do if you were on the board of a AKAM, INTC, GOOG and a 200+ pound, profusely sweating indian walked into the room...

Been reading your journal, sounds like we both have a similar trading strategy. I'm RTM equities trader. I had a question, since your system is in EL I was wondering why you don't switch to Multicharts for the platform connected to IB? Probably save on commission w/ a platform that is...

I want to switch my system to Sierra Chart. Not a programmer... and don't intend to learn. It's not a complicated strategy (without really any technical indicators), just using percentages and the o/h/l/c price - its RTM. I really believe in simple. Any idea how long it takes for them to...

Forgot the link: http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-8300/pd?oc=dxdnml1&model_id=xps-8300