Search results

Have you tried NinjaTrader before? It's used by thousands daily for simulation, market replay, and live trading.

Cybereason’s study found that the majority of organizations that chose to pay ransom demands in the past were not immune to subsequent ransomware attacks, often by the same threat actors. In fact, 80% of organizations that paid the ransom were hit by a second attack, and almost half were hit by...

NinjaTrader is a platform known for being able to easily create bots with drop-down selection and has a Strategy Builder for optimizing new strategies. The platform is more commonly known for futures trading, but can now also be used for stocks and equity options. For example if you already...

Like others have mentioned, the learning curve with NinjaTrader is much easier and it allows you to intuitively place trades directly on the chart from day 1. Many of our VPS customers in Australia use our servers for running NinjaTrader connected to their Interactive Brokers brokerage...

Chia Coin continues it's exponential growth, now at 25 Exabytes

Could be the bid-ask spread and slippage. If you're running an automated strategy that frequently buys and sells at market, get a co-located server to optimize fills and reduce slippage.

There's 2 options for daily stop losses. Broker side Send your broker an email requesting to enable daily stop loss on the account-side. Benefit is it is harder to override during the day in case you lose control of your trading Platform side Checkout this post for Daily Loss Limit...

What was the underlying, how much did the underlying price move by, and what were greeks? Are you sure impact on option price from changes in IV or theta didn't counteract the impact from underlying price move?

The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer – now in its 20th year – has found many people no longer believe working hard will give them a better life. Despite strong economic performance, a majority of respondents in every developed market do not believe they will be better off in five years’ time. This...

Ray Dalio, on debt cycles

You're not the only one! It already even has a named, “The great resignation” is what economists are dubbing it. What's happening: Workers have had more than a year to reconsider work-life balance or career paths, and as the world opens back up, many of them will give their two weeks'...

Welcome to all the new day traders! As the pandemic clouds lift, the percentage of Americans leaving employers for new opportunities is at its highest level in more than two decades. https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget-going-back-to-the-officepeople-are-just-quitting-instead-11623576602

Along that news release chain there are always leaks and hacks before news gets to the released to the public stage. There are entire strategies built around trading the price drift leading up to an earnings release. Every years there are multiple stories like this one...

NinjaTrader in the past year also added ACH with Phillip Capital, so no longer need to pay wire fees for withdrawing profits.

6/14/21 No setups today during the 1st hour. Had a sell stop limit order placed 5 minutes into open, hoping for the breakout the continue, but had to cancel the order when the 2nd bar didn't trigger it.

I think the initial reaction to news is instant, few seconds at most. Then there is price movement for the next couple of hours based on if the initial reaction overshot or undershot. Then finally there are funds that may increase their positions or build new positions for long term holds that...

What instrument are you trading? Is there a micro contract for it? I see in another post you wrote you are a discretionary chart trader, so for forward testing trade the micro if it exists.. A little skin in the game with micros will make the testing much more realistic and enjoyable vs...

Not sure about the fill comparisons, but here is an interesting data point for you to consider. Schwab, which also owns TD Ameritrade, disabled buying GME during the GME hype in late January. Schwab, TD Ameritrade, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, and others all disabled buying GME supposedly...

I am much more familiar with NinjaTrader functionality than Quantower, but from looking at the screenshot it appears that there are inputs for automatically placing a stop loss and profit target with order submission. Take a look at the help doc here...

For developing/programming, I have a Macbook but some software like NinjaTrader runs only on Windows OS. This is where a VPS comes in. All of our customers are very happy with our servers because they can use any device (Mac, Tablets, etc.) they like for running Windows only applications, can...