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Another good source of data is downloadquotes.com I was able to get my Japan data from them, and they support many other countries indices.

the other problem you'll find is getting a broker. IB doesnt handle asian stocks, as a start.

Only way I'm aware of is buying data and screening / backtesting using say, amibroker. You can get a bunch of foreign ones at EODdata.com for free and you pay for historical data - $50 U.S for each exchange. Just paid for the TSE, Im happy with the data. Code Name DateTime AMEX...

The shareholders agree to buyback stock XYZ using Stock XYZ's bank account to buy the stock. There is then 50% less stock available for a period until the company decides to liquidate their holdings of the stock. Could be years until they liquidate.

Babak, How much did your system make buying 52 week lows?

Find a hedge fund and trade there. Why would you go shop at kmart when you can shop at Bloomingdales?

Bob, have you used their service? All I see is historical volatility, not the actual historical option prices. Im looking for prices on the strikes going back 5 years. I think I got it now, mind you they want $50.00 for 10 yrs data on 8 stocks I choose.

Does anyone know of a commercially available equity options database with historical data going back 5-10yrs? Also are backtesting capabilities available with any of these databases? Thanks

They do it because they believe the value of the stock is worth more than the current price. Say QLTI for example, they plan on buying back the stock with the money they have in the bank. I believe that in the case of NOK, they had a buyback and did in fact reduce the shares outstanding by...

just an idea, use limit orders for 50% of your trades, say using ROC from the open to determine which orders are market and which are limit.

that would be a great book! Id buy it. Learning from others mistakes can save someone alot of money.

zf, sounds like you might have a better chance in equity derivatives. There are alot more firms doing that than prop firms trading options. The only problem i see is liquidity. Most options have high open interest and very little liquidity, so your system wouldnt scale beyond several million...

He only needs the following to be right: He needs to identify 13 profitable trades that double his capital within the timeframe, assuming no losers in the sequence. This could have been done with options, though he does not mention this. The probability of that is 1 in 8192, or 2 to the...

What is is your position sizing for this system? % risk, or % allocation, or other?

I know that IB doesnt trade asian stocks, which is shitty, considering the north american equity markets ( not canada ) were junk in 2005. If anyone has a broker that can access world equity markets - especially asia directly for long term trading, not for daytrding, let us know.

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try amibroker and use io.zip to optimize multiple parameters. shouldnt take long.

what if i want to trade overnite positions? Feasible?

Well, when you look at the Nasdaq100 its one of the ONLY trending stocks, so I wouldnt play "let me be right or let me be wrong" with it.

When do I sell? :)