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It's still harder than it sounds mahram, try getting filled in large size on options or even equity before a date. You need to trade equity- often you need to know more about entry and exit than fundamentals in this game to succeed. this all assumes you are trading size. If your trading 100...

try amibroker you can backtest stocks indices and futures. Intraday and EOD. Very cheap to get started and for equites you can use free yahoo or msn data

Amibroker supports portfolio level backtesting and its very good

http://www.michaelcovel.com/archives/000471.html#more consider something more long-term from the beginning, otherwise you'll just be confused. Start with some reasonably priced product with free data : www.amibroker.com is what I use. Not perfect, but your not running a fund at this stage...

Does anyone have good ideas for good short entry / exits for equities?

Do you mean something like this? Close > Ref( MA( Close, 50 ), -1 );

Good points, it can easily turn into a losers game, you might end up pumping crap IPOs to investors in the classifief section of businessweek

The IPO thing sounds like an easy way to get your hands in the cookie jar.

I'm new at Amibroker, and I trade mostly EOD. I'm interested though. Do you use the yahoo group at all Fader?

Based on my little experience so far in testing and building systems, intraday systems are very hard to build accurately and most dont hold up in reality. In my opinion your best to stick with a longer term MACD system, but these trades are held for about 200 days. It doesnt seem logical to be...

Has anyone got an idea on a good short entry signal?

I'd rather spend the $300k for a branch. Sounds like great management they have over there, they really know how to make and implement a decision in that super quick time it takes to make a swift trade

Just a theory - check out ShorCanIndex.com they run a CFD operation, you might be able to open an account and go short with the CFD if its available.

I've visited Collective2 and its a great signal site. If the Systems Developer is getting out of the tradign aspect of the business, then this is a great resource. These people may contact you independently while using the service to arrange something private, so you would end up with more than...

They should prosecute and sentence this academic, making him trade at one of Swifttrades many branches for a 1 year. It would at least shut him off and he might learn something useful to devote a new research paper on.

Tradetheplan, How can I find out more about the Opus group, there is little to no information at Schonfelds site. All I see is info about Retail, Automated Trading and their Quant operation which is a Bank of America spin-off. Any suggestions, I'd be happy to move to PM. Thanks, Eric

Hi, I have a bunch of EOD systems I'm testing and working on. I get Sharpe Ratio's in the area of .30 - .40. I've heard some traders say look for a system with 1 or 2 Sharpe Ratio before going live. Is this correct for EOD systems, or only correct for intraday systems? Thanks

Sounds like Swifttrade and their Arbitrage "strategy" hit up an ecn on the ask and bid up to another ECN punch out for your rebate. Thats a strategy my friends - snickers -

Excerpt from article in Fortune Magazine -June 27, 2005 How I make decisions: Trading Derivatives- Simon Yates, Managing Director Equity Derivatives, Credit Suisse First Boston-- New York City When you see a trader panic, you can be pretty sure that for the next few hours, he's...

Interesting, would you use internaxx to trade offshore and avoid taxes on trades? What about Interactive Brokers for Equity / Futures or ASL Direct for funds?