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Anyone here who love programming in C and are developing or looking to develop trading systems, manual or automatic in it? I figure there is alot of common code that can be shared in dynamic libraries. Common tasks like downloading index component lists, historical data, etc. Interested...

Don't stare yourself blind on percent return per annum. More important is your peak-to-valley draw-down in comparison to your annual return. For example If the return is 10% and the max draw-down is 3% you can easily add 5x to 7x leverage and enjoy 50-70% annual returns. Max draw-down should...

Looks like a nice strat.. I did notice you have multiple draw-downs of 20%, 25% and 28%, that may blowup in your face with a larger 50-60% draw-down if you hit a longer streak. Add some money and let it ride, every time it doubles your invested capital add some more to it. Could lower the...

Usually it is more capital at disposal you want, not more leverage. I took a different route and did borrow $54000 in-blanco on a 10 year loan from a bank at 5.6% interest, with 30% interest rate deduction in my country I pay $2016 (effective rate of 3.7%) in interest on the $54000...

IB is good broker with a international presence with offices in US, Canada, Hong Kong and UK. Most important is to choose a broker with solid financials, I have the feeling smaller US-only commodities brokers are more riskier. The last thing you want is a MF Gobal or PFBest incident to happen...

No, does not make sense for a swing trader as the distribution of wining and losing trades are uneven, Sometime you are in a losing period or winning period which skews short term results. I do have a annual goal of 50% return on the account, and even on the 12 month period sometimes I overshoot...

Maybe destroyed for scalpers and day traders, but I do not care about these boffins. For us swing traders there are plenty of money to extract from the current markets. Been making fifty percent per year on average, last year was a excellent year with nithy seven percent return and this year a...

Futures are targeted towards professional traders that are expected to have deep knowledge and know what they are doing. ETFs on the other side are targeted to the retail crowd which generally do not know how to handle leverage. Lot of people may hurt themselves on these instruments. The ETFs in...

Start trading algorithmic, also known as rule-based trading or mechanical trading. You have a clear set of rules written down in your strategy plan that covers everything from position sizing, entry and exit/stop and you just have to execute the plan as perfect as possible. Automation has...

The ETF:s have a leverage of 10x (1000%) and are available for the German DAX index and Nasdaq-OMX Stockholm 30 index. Sort of insane, we had 4x ETF before, but 10x is pure insanity. How long until these go to zero. http://www.educatedtrading.bnpparibas.se/SE/index.aspx?pageID=61

In order to trade "price-feel" successfully you need to the able to assert buying and selling pressure/volume correctly (liquidity flow), most of these discretionary traders trade by watching the dance of the orderbook, you must learn how to anticipate this correctly. I think you should focus on...

Day trading like other trading styles do work for some people. But I have found it pays low income per hour. Lots of wasted hours in screen time, stress, high blood pressure and low pay per effective time invested. There are better trading styles that gives more freedom and higher or same returns.

I do not care about sessions, I do not trade every day, not even every week, sometimes for not for over a month. It all depends on then the signals are ignited.

Today's C compilers generate very efficient code and can do auto vectorization so there is not much point of hand writing whole programs in Assembler anymore, except for optimizing hotspots, low level hardware/driver stuff. New vector instructions like AVX/FMA/XOP and extended vector...

Swing trading 3x ETF is my bread 'n' butter. Decay in leverages ETFs is not an issue as a round trip take max 5-6 days to complete.

Everything is gambling. Then a company launches a new untested product to the market it is gambling. No one knows the future and the outcome. Then Apple launched the iPod it was gambling, the iPhone, the iPad it was gambling, it could have failed just as much as it could succeed,

12% is my max draw down for the last 3 years of trading. Drawdown is something you mostly control yourself by increasing/decreasing position size vs equity size. Edit: This is with 300% leverage, with zero leverage max dd is 4%

Sound like a cliche but there are some basic reasons why they win and you do not. Discipline Focus Patience Experience Talent Structure/Plan Unemotional Be professional and treat it like a business, plan accordingly and execute, reanalyze to improve execution for each iteration.

"world domination is close at hand" "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win!" "There are no limits, everything is possible. Aim twice as high and be satisfied if you'd get half way"

Japanese daytrader/scalper Takashi Kotegawa (BNF/J-Com Man) traded $13,600 into $153 million in 8 years. Zanger, Rotter, etc, they all provide great inspiration to us all and show that it is possible to make it big.