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Have any PTF users had much success with pairs combining individual stocks and their relevant index ? I'm UK based and on a backtest some shares seem to have worked well but I don't know how they walk forward. So it would be nice to hear of the experiences of those that have played around...

Metatrader is used by bucket shops that are bent. Keep well away.

Metatrader has been designed for bent brokers so they can manipulate prices. MT4/5 is easy to use and code but your problem is that 99% of the brokers won't let you win. Tradestation is much better but have you thought about Ninja ? Personally I'd decide on your broker before you decide on...

Well done Lescor and thanks for the fred. Have you used StockFetcher ? It some similar functionality to Trade Ideas but seems to be a darn sight cheaper. Also, since you've used Trade Ideas in the past, have you tried their automated algo trading ? Happy Christmass btw and hopefully next...

Wouldn't this be easier do as a custom design in Excel ? Happy Christmas BTW....

I only trade UK stocks as I'm based there. The last few months have been rubbish for me as most of my longterm predictable winning pairs have fallen apart. I've scaled down my sizing by quite a bit.

Well, its obviously their longterm plan as Betfair have already bought a US company to try to push things along. I dont know exactly where they stand at the moment but I'm sure they're greasing every palm they can to get legislation moving along in what is a very slow process. The obvious way...

Handle's post is right (and well done him for making scalping pay so well) but on the other hand there's nothing wrong with varying your stake if you know you have a greater edge on a trade. For instance, if you happen to be married to someone on the panel that decides interest rates and they...

I like the philosophy behind LMAX and want it to do well. I've been a member of Betfair (the company behind it) since they started and was their first software solution provider. My coder and I are currently working on a one-click interface which will make trading on LMAX a much better...

The question is a semantic one, so ithe answer doesnt really matter. Who cares if its an 'edge' or not. Two posters need to wise up. First, Random.Something (cant remember the correct name) should learn about what is legal and illegal in Vegas. Card counting, ace tracking, roulette wheel...

Surely the amount you risk should be based on your longterm expectation. If you have an edge then you should risk a proportion of your bank relative to that edge. Therefore if you dont have a positive expectation you should not trade at all. Trading is no more than gambling, so its best to...

Nice post. I for one would be interested in hearing how it goes so do get back to us....

There's quite obviously a bunch of clever guys in both camps, spot and futs, so perhaps one or more of you could answer a few questions I have about trading FX. (a) If you get the price and size you want does it matter what instrument you use ? (b) Do any of you actually know what price...

Best of luck Afto. Keep us informed. Do keep in the back of your mind what I said before. If this EA could make money, and bearing in mind the FX market is, to all intent and purpose, limitless, why doesn't Jared simply use it himself, rather than 'play' with it as he did in the log shown on...

No doubt like many others you received an email from PTF telling you about the new FX Pairs Trading System using an EA for Metatrader. The first 250 EAs would be free. Although I had my doubts about the possibility of being able to trade FX profitably using stat arb techniques I was...

Thanks for the feedback. Moc, I'm pretty unsophisticated and dont add layers but I think I've just encountered one of those situations that are bound to come up now and again. Mean reversion in general is going to be prone to making lots of small profits only to be blown away ocassionally...

Had my first sort of black swan yesterday which wiped out my last couple of months profits. One of the problems with oil stocks I suppose. One company may have made a discovery I think and their shares shot up leaving their counterpart well behind. Do I close them out or leave them to revert a...

wave, I did say it was a joke.... I'm a photographer and my favourite contemporary was Helmut Newton....bugger, he was German not Italian.....anyway, I'm sure there are some good Italian photographers out there......

Tom, You're obviously a really bright guy even though you're Italian (that's a joke by the way as I love Italians...well Italian women anyway) and you do have some cash but why are you still trading ? By now you should have accumulated enough wealth even for Croesus, so where have you gone...

Jared sent me a new user manual which explains how to import FX data. You have to subscribe to a live IQ feed but I've decided I dont want to subscribe as I already have a data feed. I've been testing a stat arb EA in MT4 with FX and think one has to be very careful using this type of routine...