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Csi unfair advantage

Cross sectional backtesting. For example be able to rank a large universe of stocks with one or more factor rankings using end of day data or even intraday data and then take positions until the next iteration. I have coded up such a backtester in python. You could probably also do it in...

Why bother going to college when there's this kind of pay in labor jobs? Average college grad on the US can't find a job and if they do it's $55k per year

Looks like $8k maintenance margin. Might be interesting if they come up with a micro version.

QCOM after hours? If there is a beat it will be supercharged with NDX currently oversold.

What do you base your earnings picks on? Recent earnings moves? Industry outlook? A gut feel?

I typically only trade during market hours. I have been experimenting with very small money trading after hours on earnings plays.

bot some AMD @ 123.00. Hope momemtum builds overnight

I'll be buying in the after market if it looks positive in the first hour or so. Also keeping an eye on SBUX

which stock were you looking at after hours?

ON Semiconductor

this strategy is just stocks

I've been trading a strategy that I dreamed up last September. It's a short term day trading strategy relying on some things which make it impossible to backtest. It was working wonderfully until May after which it flattened out and then today I had my butt kicked with its worst day ever. Here...

That seems about right. S&P would have to move up enough to overcome the cost of the event contracts + cost of the regular option. To me what you describe is too much transaction cost and friction for a short term trade. The way I trade event contracts is I buy cheap OTM yes and no contracts...

The most liquid equity option out there is SPY. You can get filled between the bid/ask and essentially have zero slippage. As for individual company stock options, its a mixed bag where the wide bid/ask width may turn a profitable short term trade into a loser.

I use finviz elite to do premarket gapper scans. Not free but pretty cheap

yep! I live in downtown WP

I think I live in the same city as Morse. Might be interested

My son is currently 11 and he seems intrigued by watching me sit in the basement all day trading. If he wished to pursue this field, I would teach him my various trading systems, bulk of which are short term in nature. But I think the challenge with imparting your methods to any sort of...

This type of thing is usually only good for off exchange OTC derivative users. Various exchange cleared futures have been around for years with hardly any volume like real estate, weather, electricity etc