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[If you only want to see how much money I lost please skip to the end] Back in about september of last year was when I started getting really into this thing called the stock market. It was around that time that I decided trading was what I wanted to do for a living (or at least as a hobby...

WOW! this strat really works! I went form just $27,890 to $310,423 in ONLY 7 trades! Who thought trading could be this easy?

i am 20 got my account open when i was 19 with just under 4k @ questrade (i live in canada) im prety sure they dont even enforce the pdt rule

I had to go to bed unfortunately so i could not watch this position and i put an oco order and woke up about 10 mins after being filled. I guess i cant complain cause i got to my target but it looks prety funny in hindsight. http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/1015/usdjpyvw0.jpg

Hello I am Mr Professor Market from the University of Stockology. Over the past 20 years I have been developing a predictive model of the major market crashes of the past 100 years. I have been using a highly complex series of prediction matrices with boolean integers as values to...

just thought id bump this thread id be happy to read any more replys

When will you foolish humans learn that you are ALL inferior to me, regardless of gender!

either 1) the bot works perfectly and statistically makes money 2) there is a serious logial problem that you have overlooked somewhere which is causing you to loose money I would say keep the bot running and do everything exactly the same for now EXCEPT actually placing the trades for...

i decided to leave that out to piss people off

This is a model of the average p&l per trade generated using moving average 1 (x) and moving average 2 (y) A buy signal was generaled when ma1 crosed above ma2 and the price was above ma2 and there had not been a gap detected within the last 20 bars. A sell signal was generated when the price...

if i want to calculate a simple moving average value for a point that has the same x value as data point n how do i calculate it? (lets say its a 3 period moving average) 1) MA value at point n = ((n-2) + (n -1) + n) /3 or 2) MA value at point n = ((n-3) + (n -2) + (n-1)) /3

regardless of whether you hired someone or not i am still interested in the answers to those questions (and anything else of wisdom you would have for a novice)

I am going to write a profitable trading bot. Yeah i know i said a mouthfull didint i, but i am prepared to dedicate many years of my life to this if necessary. Thats why i figured first of all i need to know what i am up against. Im not asking how you do it but rather who are you?; how...

ive noticed that on low volume stocks (espically during extended market hours) that sometimes the bid / ask will be 0.01 /4000 and sometimes on higher volume stocks i see the bid or ask flash as one of these prices during heavy market activity. my question is do ppl actually sometimes get...

maby i dont understand how etf's work but wouldent the fund itself be losing money as long as the general market goes higher?

does it just go to 0 and stop trading? Also doesent qid track profits that one would make shorting the qqqq? if this is true then what would be the advantage to creating a fund like this if the natural trend of the markets is to go up over the long, long term since you would eventually just...

everyone load up on mncs big rally coming 100% upside!

hey im new to trading and i have a couple questions: 1 what causes bid and ask prices to stay the same (or the bid to be larger than the ask) for long periods of time; if someone wants to buy for x dollars and someone else wants to sell for x dollars then wouldent these orders be executed...