Search results

  1. E

    Regime Changing

    I started off using TA but don't any more, minus acouple of indicators i have in my systems. I don't believe in the patterns that prices form though I am talking about change in direction of price. Politics is a qualtitative story that does lead the market in my opinion but for someone who...
  2. E

    Regime Changing

    Regime Changing... How's it done? Theres a reason why 90% of traders fail and 10% succeed. The 10% can correctly identify the turn of regimes. So I wanted to open up this conversation to regime changing. How do you do it? Technical indicators? Quant methods?
  3. E

    Today is the day fella's

    lol explain your logic
  4. E

    It's time to buy Apple!

    with the recent rally in the bond market, sure, thats acceptable
  5. E

    Relative Value Trading

    appreciate it!
  6. E

    Relative Value Trading

    I'm interested in both. I trade the Es/Nq so i'm trying to structure something that interacts with the bonds... I have a system that trades once every 2 weeks when the signals align but i'm trying to make something that will help me trading day in day out. Any suggestions?
  7. E

    Relative Value Trading

    Anyone use a Relative Value Trading Strategy? I personally use one between Bonds and Stocks. I'm curious to hear from other RV traders.
  8. E

    Discretionary Trading The Nasdaq Paul Tudor Jones Style

    I'm a systems trader by nature but I execute solely based on discretion. I'll be honest, my discretion needs some work because my strong point is my models. My contract of choice is the NQ. I was wondering what one should be looking at and analyzing intraday if they trade the NQ or ES even...
  9. E

    Can Copper Predict Short term Movements?

    Find it hard to hear you say that considering China buys up all of Americas debt, making there a direct relation Regardless if you were to make a predictive model of the S&P500, what variables would you include/test?
  10. E

    Can Copper Predict Short term Movements?

    It is. Infact the hang seng moves in relation to copper The question is, can the movement of the hangseng help a speculator make a trade on American Indices?
  11. E

    Can Copper Predict Short term Movements?

    i've ran a few regressions with copper and have gotten some extremely interesting numbers. I want to make a model with copper being the lead. My biggest question though is can copper actually be useful in day to day or week to week trades?
  12. E

    Global Macro Trading on a daytoday/weektoweek basis

    Sup ya'll I'm extremely interested in global macro trading. I'm trying to develop a model both quantitiavely (i.e. my system) and qualitiatively (my research) to take positions on a day to day or week to week basis. I started trading with etf indexing and index arb which has provided me...
  13. E

    Ways of testing Mean Reversion

    How could you test mean reversion of a price series without getting all wild with something like cointegration? I was thinking about making a moving average, then determining the spread of the ma and the price series, then find the STdevs and figure out parameters for when it gets to...
  14. E

    Realistic per futures contract per trade profitability

    Thats pretty on point. But VN trades way larger lots than 50s or 100s lol Interesting break down to be honest. I've been wondering this for a while. From education of a speculator VN makes it clear how the speculator needs to trade from the top and never in the bottom. I'd be curious as...
  15. E

    Support and resistance

    are you using daily or intraday data? how are you coding/backtesting market profile to determine these key levels? Gann and fibb is a waste of time, don't test that crap (in my opinion, but if it works for you more power) I do spread trade etfs. Been focusing my attention on index...
  16. E

    Support and resistance

    I see this was posted a week ago now. I'm not 100% sure but I think you can figure something out by using the OHLC prices
  17. E

    Building an Automated Database

    Hey ya'll I want to make a database of the S&P500 tickers with excel that will automatically update everyday. Does anyone have any advice or resources on how to do this? I go through boatloads of data right now manuelly with excel so I am trying to make my life easier instead of manuelly...
  18. E

    Black Tuesday...

    So everyone on here keeps talking about how this market is rigged blah blah blah. Look at where the VIX dropped to today and what has happened in each of the cases it's dropped to that level. What's tomorrow setting up for fellas?
  19. E

    Nasdaq Index Arbitrage

    I actually had that one open too but was disappointed that there wasn't an open class. I'm going to do some digging, if I find anything thats decent i'll report back Thanks for all the R links btw. Just went threw them all right now and I really appreciate that I'll let you know how this...
  20. E

    Nasdaq Index Arbitrage

    Caveman, I took a look at coursera for their class on R and couldn;t find anything in programming with it. is it "Data Analysis" with Jeff Leeks?
Back
Top