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Hey just out of curiosity what is your profit factor? How about your win/loss ratio? Average % profit?

Hey, IB has a demo account or you can just eat the cost of the commissions until youre ready to go with big size or maybe u should try another NT compatible broker? I have another idea, why dont you run IB and the other one at the same time, see which one gives you better fills? Let us know.

Theoretically, if you design an automated trading system for one market, could you move it to another market say, from the S and P to say, the bovespa or the Forex markets and expect similar returns?

Nice, love it.

Its front month at the money so Vega is a lot.

Anyone trade this one? The chart looks nutso, why so volatile?

Subscribers will get the short end of the stick. What I hate about C2 two things #1 just a few seconds delay is enough to really kill you with slippage if a stock is moving in a certain direction from my personal experience. In that case the returns will not mirror the system returns. Secondly...

Perhaps I should consider buying VIX put options to hedge my position in long premium.

Hey guys, assuming you are long some options spreads on individual stocks and the vix tanks, any idea to hedge out this type of risk? EliteTraderNYC

I am holding off on using fundamental data for now because I dont think I will really need it.

Hey thanks, since i posted this message ive come a long ways toward automating my ideas on ninjatrader.

Thanks for your responses. I have yet to finish coding my automated system. Will let you know how it works. For a follow up question, does anyone try for the opening bid/ask and get it, not get it? Typically how much slippage is involved?

I'm a swing trader using IB, automated but trading super volatile low liquid stocks, was told not to use markets. Holding time is between 1 day to few weeks.

Hey guys, lets say you have a trading signal triggered and you put in a limit +.01 for an illiquid stock. How long do you give the order to fill? Do you cancel and resubmit, etc or what is your strategy if it does not fill or runs up/down?

Hey guys, I've been using IQFEED for data for backtesting. Listen to this, they do not include splits in intraday minute data - so this totally throw of my multiday tests using intraday data, the daily information is just fine. It took me some time to figure this out. Does anyone know a data...

That's funny information about Tim Sykes and covestor. I've followed him. He has hundreds if not thousands of people attempting to follow him and I've seen that when he shorts a stock the volume really goes ballistic but only make 5 people can get the same prices he did, the rest lose. Many of...

The price of free would also be a plus if anyone already has it on their hard drive in SQL.

Finviz wont get it done for me. i need for example the PE ratio or the shares outstanding for 2009.

Hey guys wheres a good place to get historical fundamental data? Like PE or E in PE, shares outstanding, etc?

I am using a Time Warner cable modem in nyc. The system is swing trading.