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  1. MarkBrown

    Direction for stocks and futures:

    i was stuck long 911 lost 35% made it all back in 3 months but it taught me a lesson about: the cost of > time in the market - get in and get the fck out.
  2. MarkBrown

    Anyone got dual 49" curved monitors one on top of other?

    no depth of vision and curved monitors distort flat charts. need at least 4k now days. ASUS ProArt Display 32” 4K HDR Monitor (PA329CV) - UHD (3840 x 2160)
  3. MarkBrown

    Direction for stocks and futures:

    i am in a trade for 1 second so i am glad i no longer live in this world of investing. anything held longer than 1 minute is a investor. i invest in crypto and i trade futures.
  4. MarkBrown

    Theories on bitcoins muted volatility?

    full value lol imagine if they did that on the sp
  5. MarkBrown

    BTC - what is it good for?

    Let's put it this way it's money not tied to a will of a government, rather the will of the people.
  6. MarkBrown

    Theories on bitcoins muted volatility?

    there is a saying if it doesn't go down on bad news then it's going up
  7. MarkBrown

    Theories on bitcoins muted volatility?

    it's because many got in it very early and refuse to do anything other than leave the money parked like me. i could care less what it does, i wish i had robbed a bank took the money and bought bitcoin by the time i got out of jail i would have owned the world. so i think btc is being used as...
  8. MarkBrown

    When is options scalping manipulative trading?

    when the volume is two and half times the twenty one day average volume. maybe
  9. MarkBrown

    MultiCharts Automated trading

    MultiCharts will not autotrade as advertised. I will pay anyone who can give me sample code that actually matches backtesting with real trading.
  10. MarkBrown

    Typical Leverage to Drawdown Ratio ?

    nice i have found that 4:1 is a good recoverable ratio and though it seems a bit tight to me, it's not in the perspective of flipping the entire position at that point. otherwise i don't use stops for the most part. m
  11. MarkBrown

    Latency

    when your latency is 5ms or less then that's pretty good and will indicate fiber carrier. latency more than 150ms is very sad and indicates copper or coax carrier. 5ms to 150ms pretty average i am guessing. also has to do with hops, you can specify a central office fiber connection in a...
  12. MarkBrown

    Going to smaller timeframes, is it worth the effort in the end ?

    i use range bars - they have their faults but i have learned how to live with the shortcomings. i would guess the losers last four seconds and the winners occur in the same second. i love being out of the market most of the time while i use to be in the market all the time.
  13. MarkBrown

    Elite Trader Member Featured in Forbes Magazine

    this is kool no doubt...
  14. MarkBrown

    MultiCharts Automated trading

    this sample system is always in the market long or short // AMA System Input: Price(Close), Period(10), Damp(0), LimSlope(0.01), delay(1); Vars: Ave(Price), Slope(0); Ave = KaufmanAMA(Price, Period, Damp); Slope = AbsValue(Ave - Ave[1]); if Slope > LimSlope then begin if Ave <...
  15. MarkBrown

    MultiCharts Automated trading

    i feel your pain - seriously! i have 3 internet feeds with auto fail-over to solve the problem of internet outages. mikrotik routers i have my office running on a RV battery inverter rig that gives the generator time to kick on. triplite inverter i am using old stable, no more update win 7...
  16. MarkBrown

    MultiCharts Automated trading

    mc range bars will always open and close 1 tick above and below the last bar. my validation of the trade need only occur at the close of the current bar and the entry to be the open of that next bar. without auto trading switched on, i can manually trade no problem. when i switch on auto...
  17. MarkBrown

    MultiCharts Automated trading

    brilliant could you post a simple system with conditions you think might work for me to test? i don't expect it to make money, i just need to see if it matches historical trades when turned on and off. i do not use limits because i know that in back testing that platforms will deliver fills...
  18. MarkBrown

    MultiCharts Automated trading

    hey guys thank you all for the great conversation! i find when i manually trade my systems i make money but when i let them auto trade they lose money. no matter what broker and or data vendor and even platform multicharts and tradestation both have this problem. it has to be a communication...
  19. MarkBrown

    MultiCharts Automated trading

    Is anyone using MC and Rithmic for fully automated trading? Also is anyone aware of Futures Clearing firms that will take a transmitted file as an order? Prevent any possible asynchronization Mark
  20. MarkBrown

    Trading on Linux

    in my opinion, noting is better than a unix based os. my problem is the lack of trading programs that are available to take advantage of that os. m
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