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Closing down the more sensitive of my two algos since everything went well, too well since Tuesday. Planning to trade NFP on Friday unless I manage to sleep that over. Leaving other algo open so still got some exposure to equities/bonds through NFP. Up by $2k since early June. Didn't keep track...

Let's make robots pollinate most plants in the world (including those in ag) instead. -.- Unsure whether humans or the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs is the worst in terms of number of dead species.

I want proper lab grown meat. BYND is fake.

Agreed, whatever you make is going to be related to what you already have and what risks you take. My best month "trading" was $20k on uranium stocks (on $50k account) but I proceeded to give that back to the market the months after due to being fairly green at that time. What could have gone...

Yup, curiously most price pattern stuff I backtested (in cases it didn't appear just random or otherwise unprofitable) yielded a really small positive return like 4-6% p.a, i.e. probably just below where professionals don't care about it. Amplifying it with leverage isn't worthwhile since Sharpe...

Up considerably, now +$1600 since early June algo start. Putting that in comparison to the ~1950$ (depending on EUR/USD) until June this approach is already looking a lot better. Time to rock now that I have a way of dealing with discipline issues. Need to continue work on and improve...

NQ stopped for $21 loss (moved up stop 7 in morning from 60 to 20$ risk). Didn't think Euro session would be down or I would have settled for the 70$ profit after Asian session.

2015 was a lot like that for me. At that point, I had realized I could go short market indices using some instruments and that it should be better than being long "like an idiot". I managed to catch one major correction using these, and then set about waiting for (what I thought) was an...

Dumb beta algo was generally buying tops and selling bottoms while adjusting to volatility yesterday so I'm still about 400 under MFE. Sharpe 4 algo isn't real, yet another bug fixed in platform that the algo was picking up on (and a few initial trades match new backtest), so going to discard...

Buy NAS100USD x 4 @ 7751 stop 7736 Repeat manual position of yesterday (kinda), might I have better luck this time now that balloon let some air out.

Gdamnit, overslept opening and chance to reduce size at good prices. Down $400 on CFD since before open peak.

Yeah have been anticipating a good July (like, what else market gonna do until rate decision in July with weakening data?) but also wary of Trump tweets causing havoc whenever now that hopes are getting cashed in. As for nomenclature, what is RTH? Edit: Nm regular trading hours, just a bit...

So, this is one of those days where everything is moving in my favor and I know my fortunes will eventually reverse and bit me in the ass.

Availability of shares is very broker dependent. That's another reason you could try IB which is usually regarded as having among the best availability, but as I don't know about the alternatives, don't consider this an unbiased recommendation. Just the compulsory warning (bet you heard it...

Buy NAS100USD x 4 @ 7751 stop 7739 Manually added a little bit of NQ, it retraced heavily. 90 min before Chinese open is like most negative time of night. Edit: Quit now at breakeven, went somewhere then nowhere.

Up solidly today, now the question of whether to take profit or let it run. Leaning towards leaving algos on and just downsize my equity accounts a bit once market opens.

Here's the thing, you could do 50/50, 75/25 or 90/10 in terms of allocating between passive investing ("guaranteed" compounding) and trading. If you turn out yet another Padutrader, at least you got a different part of portfolio that compounded for all these years.* * Yeah, assuming the future...

Usually have one or several ex-colleagues there, might go some year just to be social. Since C++17 I stopped keeping up with its language changes; by now basically everything that made C++ annoying to use for me in the past has been solved. Writing modern C++ in MSVC w/ VisualAssist is a joy...

Good thread, haven't looked at some of these and might be able to cut my costs. (I don't news trade much but I hate not understanding why a major move is happening, as it influences whether it's something that might continue the whole day and beyond, versus reversing in the next minute.)

Seems Trump and Xi did come to a ceasefire (how long it lasts before Trump tweets something new is another question). Planning to stay long through July regardless with exception of FOMC.