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    Why strategies make money

    Right now I am in the last phases of development of an automated strategy. Its core is: Buy high, sell higher. As johno1 said, trend is your friend.
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    Interactive Brokers: Questions, intraday futures, requirements

    Thanks a lot Yogi, really helpful
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    Interactive Brokers: Questions, intraday futures, requirements

    Hi Yogi, thanks for the answer. You misunderstood me, I didn't ask about the margin requirements but about the IB requirements to trade futures, which may be different of the margins themselves. I would not like to get to the momment in which I am funding my account, and find out that I need to...
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    Interactive Brokers: Questions, intraday futures, requirements

    Anyone? Please, solving this questions is really important for me. Thanks again.
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    Interactive Brokers: Questions, intraday futures, requirements

    Hello guys, I hope you can help me with this, is so important for me: I have developed an automated intraday strategy for futures, for the IB Java API. It is already tested and now I just need to open an account with them to try it with paper money or real money. 1) Now, I see that for futures...
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    Do you know something about 'YesFX'?

    I applied to a remote trader position and these are the conditions: Do you know if this company is trustful? I don't like that is based in Cyprus... Any opinions?
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    Is THIS the reason to hedge on options?

    Hello all, I'm new to options and I just started to study them by reading Paul Wilmott's Book "Paul Wilmott introduces to Quantitative Finance". My question is: We know that the value of an options depends on the value of the underlying asset, the volatility, etc. So, is hedging the way...
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    Any opinions of these books for quantitative finances? (Paul Wilmott, etc..)

    I have found these books and Im about to read them, but first I would like to hear some opinions about them: 1) Paul Wilmott introduces Quantitative Finance, Paul Wilmott 2) Quantitative Financial Economics, Keith Cuthbertson 3) The Mathematics of investing, Michael C. Thomsett Also...
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    Newbie in futures here: What happened to Cotton the 20/06/2014?

    Thanks for your answers, this was exactly what I was expecting. Im not too much into the futures issues of contracts and stuff, I come from forex and equities and I have too much to read yet. Thanks again! :)
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    Newbie in futures here: What happened to Cotton the 20/06/2014?

    This is the only info that matches the date and even though i prefer to thinkg that my ToS platform had some kind of problem, or I am missing any more news :confused::confused:
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    Newbie in futures here: What happened to Cotton the 20/06/2014?

    Nobody? I thought this just has to do with deadline or some other weird stuff of futures, I dunno... :D Any fundamental news? Anything? :mad:
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    Newbie in futures here: What happened to Cotton the 20/06/2014?

    I just saw the chart and it went from $88 to $77 with a huge gap, why was that? Thanks!
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    China consumed more cement in 3.5 years than US did in 100 years

    1) US uses mostly wood in their buildings 2) Not in the last 100 years but between 1901-2001, which excludes the biggest real state bubble in history of US. Does this mean that this info is false? I dont know, for the momment just means that it doesnt compare the right data.
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    I'd like to hear opinions about the results of my first ATS

    Could you give me some more opinions? Last bump, promise.
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    I'd like to hear opinions about the results of my first ATS

    You are completely right, with that title i wanted to mean "Profits without the initial capital". Yea I have to calculate the DD for sure, but I dont know yet how to do it in excel. I'm doing this ATS in a really coarse way 'cause I do not have the means (nor all the knowledge/experience...
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    I'd like to hear opinions about the results of my first ATS

    Hello there guys, This is my first automated system ever, I use it for intraday futures (the ones you see in the pic below). I'm not really into programming, so I have made this ATS in ToS and tested it for the last 2-3 months (not backtested, but in real time). Here is a screenshot of the...
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    Where do you find these stats/graphs??

    Thank you guys, you are the best! I'll try a couple of things in Excel too. luv u :p
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    Where do you find these stats/graphs??

    wut bro Sorry, I'm not into programming yet :D Other example (again from zerohedge), these kind of things are what I'm talking about: Tuesdays' results of the SP500 Do you know more pages with interesting but uncommon data about markets?
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    Where do you find these stats/graphs??

    I mean, these kind of: Random data and interesting statistics about SP500, NQ, etc. I just know zerohedge fund (each day closer to an end of the world :D ) and seekingalpha. Any more suggestions? Ty!
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    Why did stock price go up when earnings report were down?

    Same question here, and vice-versa
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