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Good day today, with +13k of profits in the core strategy. However, was up 25k at one point, so wish I could have taken some profits, although I don't really like taking profits until the end of the day, so I'm not really sure if I could have done anything better. I've spent countless...

I wonder about the solar names. They're very depressed right now, but its much more than just a supply issue. Government subsidies across the key markets of Germany and Itality are being cut significantly this year. Further cuts will happen in the future. Many solar projects are highly...

Just talk to your sales person. Your allocation will purely be a function of how much comissions you have paid. Keep in mind the average ipo is priced to pop around 15% on day one, so most IPOs allocations are almost considered free money, especially hot ones. IPOs are just a form of comissions...

Always exciting to have a new strategy up and running. Just hope this doesn't distract me from my core trading strategy. MTD performance by strategy: Core trading strat +3k Pairs trading strat +1.5k Long term strat +11k YTD performance by strategy Core +228k Pairs +1.5k LT +39k

Glad to hear that you managed to find another large investor!

Damn, I took an nap today and now I can't fall asleep! The freedom of taking naps during the day has its downsides.. Thanks for the compliment, although real results can different greatly from the backtest. I have some confidence that at a minimum, this strategy will not be a money loser. So...

Went live on a new quant based pair trading strategy today. I originally wanted to learn C# to automate this thing, but decided that it would be too much work for the time being. Thus, I did some ghetto backtesting in excel, using a bunch of if statements. Strat seems to work okay in the...

Thanks, I will try ToS. Wonder if there's a way to do this with IB? Feel like there should be with their excel API, although I'm not very faimilar with its workings. As for why someone would want quotes in excel, well, the answers are many and varied. Excel is a well known platform that...

I remember there used to be an MSN finance add-in that you can download where you can just use the following function to put a refreshable stock quote into a cell in excel. "=MSNStockQuote.Functions.MSNStockQuote("MSFT","Last Price","US")" However, I don't think this add-in is available...

"Typical" day is a gain or loss in the mid to high thousands of dollars. Best day was +33k, worst day was -15k. All trades closed out at the end of the day. I also have my long-term L/S strategy, which is up about 40k ytd (not reflected in the equity curve), although I don't have as much...

the question itself is a bit silly since how can someone predict how much you can make without knowing anying about your strategy or its historical performance? Based on the very limited information provided, the most likely expected return will be a small negative number, since most day-traders...

This does not sound like a good recipie for trading success. You say you cannot afford to make any more mistakes or to waste time. However as a trader, you want to have enough capital to feel confortable trading, and to absorb losses without it affecting your mentality. Furthermore, it sounds...

I believe what's important is not nessarily confidence in one's success, but persistance and effort. Clearly one needs to work hard at this business to make it work but that doesn't mean that I will subborningly hold on to the belief that I will make it as a trader if the evidence starts proving...

Thanks for the help. Is there a site that has the historical guidance surprise numbers as well? Also revenue surprise numbers? Earnings.com only has historical earnings surprise numbers.

I used to use briefing.com for their historical earnings beat/miss and guidance beatmiss numbers. It showed the actuals and consensus numbers for about the past 8 earnings events. However, it seems their license to sell this data has changed, since they no longer provide it. Does anyone know...

He works a real time job because his strategy can lose or make 100k in one month. Don't see what's so strange about that.

I'm 27, went to NYU's b-school. Good thing about engineer is that you can prob trade a bit on the side. Almost all finance jobs restrict you from doing that.

I think the jury is still out whether I will make it as a trader, although I feel that I probably can continue to at least make some sort of living doing this. My last job was at a small hedge fund, and a pretty dysfunctional one at that. There are some legendarily difficult portfoilo...

Hi, starting my own journal here, mostly to procrastinate from doing real work! A little background: I worked a few years as an analyst at some investment firms after graduating from school, but got laid off year and a half ago. Honestly my resume kinda sucks now, been trying to get a...

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