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one quick thing you can do without burning any more data; just to compare if what you are seeing live is in sync with the data you tested is take all 5month rolling periods in the 36months you tested and see the mean profit per trade. I am sure all of them wont be 1; some will be less; some...

my bet is its another crappy book like the one by the SMB guys. Probably mostly for promoting T3 or whatever. -gariki

You can do it with thinkorswim also. Not sure if there is a limit less than 10 but i have my trades split between 3 accounts sometimes. -gariki

In general, last time i checked, spreads in forex are much wider than the corrosponding future instrument. Oanda was the best when i checked out and even that was not good enough. Things could have changed recently (i see that LMAX spreads are smaller than Oanda but maybe because they seem to be...

most of the hedge fund indexes (in the above two links) show negative for the year. Am i reading it right? so most hedge funds (which are part of these indexes) are bleeding ytd? -gariki

just get a demo account at thinkorswim and get started. Dont even think about anything else. Most of the other data that you buy elsewhere will be crappy in one way or another (very hard to use; incorrect etc etc). HTH -gariki

Somthing is wrong with the above computations. Intuitively i think the OP is correct. The +10 day happening on the 6th day should be higher for the second system. Intuitively consider this.. say this is a continous distribution (you should technically use pmf's for this but for convinience sake...

I could use EOD leverage but last i heard Bright tags on a lot of charges for coaching etc etc. Maybe has some value for newbies (not that i am seasoned prop or anything) but i dont think it has value for me (dont want to get into questioning its value for anybody for that matter..). And the...

I am interested in replies to this post as well. And yes; i think you got the thing. The only advantage would be leverage as far as i can tell. Also, i hope sterling is not as crappy as TWS (atleast the last time i checked TWS it was complete garbage - hangup; crashes and what not..). I have...

Oh that would be a great advantage. But i am not looking for tax havens but these two countries in particular as i *might* move there and was trying to understand the tax implications. India, i can understand - no one trading prop from there. But Canada - there must be folks trading prop...

Hello Traders, Quick question; anybody knows the tax implications of trading US securities via prop while living in Canada and India. More info: i wont be having a US SSN or tax id because i am not a citizen; but wonder if i have to pay taxes in both countries or only one? As for...

I thought the entire post was a made up fake post based on the post made by nonlinear5 "HFStartup and retaildaytrader are the same poster, playing a game on ET by responding to himself, and sometimes making identical posts, as shown below." I suppose i was wrong. Never mind. -gariki

I am. I went through the initial post and havent read unti this point just now. And jeez.. really i thought it was for real. But atleast i can tell you the content in his posts are very accurate if you are trying to establish a hedge fund of your own. I know it first hand :). But what a pity...

That is an awesome list of diversified tickers HFStartup. And all the best to you for the continued success of your venture. I have my own small list based on my analysis which matches with your list to about 80%. I have a couple others that could be of interest to you.. IYR for real estate...

Just a thought. If you take completely random entries and exits and dont have barriers on either side (say your time frame allows this assumption to be true; very valid if you trade intraday and say trade something like ES or SPY). Then you can do a lot of testing or assume that with zero edge...

FWIW, Lightspeed is holding fine for me. -gariki

So say you stick with broker dealers; what is the difference between a CBSX registered firm and a SEC registered firm (ofcourse other than the obvious affiliations and the requirement that you need to clear Series 7 in one vs 56 in another). To be more specific say you want to compare Avatar...

yes. They make a boat load for the seller :).

You definitely got good deals on almost all parts Sam. I Checked for a few and almost all the ones i checked now are priced higher than what you paid for. -gariki

emg, Here's a story for you. I have a book and assume you want to buy it. I have two vendors; one is my left hand who is going tohand you over the book for 10bucks. Now come see my right hand; its the same book for whoaa.. $100 bucks. Does that make my right hand a better vendor for you...