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haha..i just tried it and it worked fine so for the fun of it i went to google and did a search for it(like i think you did) and your right it sends you to this wacked out spyware website....weird...if you type in market-topology.com in your address bar it will not do whatever google is doing...

check out market-topology.com they have some neat correlation tools.

someone please tell the s&p 500 that oil is reaching new lows and can go somewhere now :)

That is exactly how i trade my pairs. I very rarely layer a trade because my strategy is to just keep them for at most 2 days so layering would only help/hurt a little. I also try to keep each pair's exposure to less than 5% of my account and all pairs to less than 70% of total account value...

yup...thats what i was saying :) you would long both securities instead of going long one and shorting the other as would normally be done in a correlated pair.

I am still working out positively correlated pairs so bear with me, but wouldn't you want to open and close the position in the same direction on both positions on a negatively correlated pair i.e. Stock1Long Stock2Long or Stock1Short Stock2Short in order to be properly hedged?

Could you go into a little detail on when/how you layer and possibly what you look for?

How is the correlation of the pairs being determined? I understand statistical correlation and how it is calculated, that is not my question, my question is more geared towards what variation (if there is any) of price is being used. Is it strictly price, variation of price from previous...

I think we found the brain behind the "Get a Mac" campaign. Seriously though, are those real questions or are you trying to be sarcastic? Your weaving of fact and fiction in almost every sentence escapes me.

Much of the basic programming syntax is the same between c++ and c# , but since it is a "progression" in the language there are caveats. The API for IB is an ActiveX control so it will work will visual studio in general. Since you are just starting out you will not learn c++ good/fast enough...

intro -- Unless there is a very specific reason that you want to use c++ it would be better for you to learn c# instead. Obviously that is my opinion, but i believe it strongly enough to state it as fact. Step 1 -- Go here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/#webInstall...

do you have a basket of stocks that you trade with or do you have real time scanners to find your candidates?

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It varies per stock based off of my plan, but total round trip shares for the month was about 300,000 i.e. [150k BOT] + [150k SOLD] = 300k . Thanks for the question, ~g

<<< Paper >>> Monthly Objective Recap: Month 1 (May) - Complete framework programming and build basic plan for automating opening orders. Observe P and L for possible tweaking for month 2. Month 2 (June) - Increase win/loss ratio while decreasing risk/exposure. Automate blocking for...

If you are going to use automation you have to be more specific with your stops, otherwise you will be too tight on some and too loose on others. I suggest starting with beta or ATR.

I can hear the brokers now "If you liked it at $151,650.00 a share you will LOVE it at $120,100.00!!!!!"

I like the way they think :) in fact that is what the overall is...however it is from those stocks that i get the stocks that i am going to set my OO orders with. So if the Overall for the morning is 20 stocks, after blocks (news/earnings/etc...) there is usually 5 to 10 (with mechanical...

Haha, yeah i cleaned up my act with my traded stops :) The overall is with no stops, no filtering, and holding until market close no matter what. It gives me a sense of where the market is going and what is filling and what is not.

<<<< Paper >>>> Well.......like many of you, June was also a tough month for me. Not only did traded oo stocks fill their gap less frequently than months before, their un-traded counterparts also followed their gap direction to close out at almost twice the loss of any other month. A...