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    From Zero to Hero - in a year's time

    share the EA , you could get some great feedback from experts , and no one would use it before proving it.. you can only gain from sharing ... and the openness will provide confidence ...
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    Programming Automated Trading

    It is a personal HFT with pattern recognition, neural networks (AI self-tuning), automatic "skimming" of trends, it is doing well. Have two offers, negotiating over the weekend, likely it will be sold to an individual or software company and I'll become a consultant to them. No options at the...
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    Programming Automated Trading

    10% of balance per week is what it is doing now
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    Programming Automated Trading

    The program has been doing trades (real) for months (as a trade assistant, providing recommendations and single button buy/sell/stop loss transactions). Finished the first production version last week (Monday) with the full automation. Now it is running on its own. It is returning about 10%...
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    Programming Automated Trading

    over 10K profit today of all days ... P (>$2) and RLYP (>$1.50)
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    NYSE to eliminate "stop orders"

    What a poor decision... stop orders are NOT the problem... They should address the real problem, the only people who ever lost money are those who placed orders ... they should just eliminate orders , call, put, buy and sell and no one will lose any money
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    Can day trading become an addiction since it is so similar to gambling?

    In poker I often I see guys get extremely upset (like when they lose with pocket aces) at a loss, then throw money away trying to win it back with worse hands. My view is you have to see the bigger picture and realize you'll win and lose, you can't play well if you don't plan on the losses as...
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    Programming Automated Trading

    I will add a function to my program to twitter it's transactions ... I'll post the user id when I test it.
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    Can day trading become an addiction since it is so similar to gambling?

    I have been a semi-professional poker player. (I don't consider poker gambling like slot machines.) I think that experience helps my day trading, I learned in poker you can't base decisions on what you wish will happen .. only on the data you have (math and reads on your opponents). No bluffing...
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    Programming Automated Trading

    The next step for my automated trading was a pleasant surprise. My program recognizes 5 patterns very well. Over the weekend I decided instead of adding new patterns myself, I'd have the program search them out. I feed in hundreds of days of historical data. The program would look for the...
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    Programming Automated Trading

    FFT would be useful just for the optimization, to be useful on trend analysis, you have to take it to another level, I'm not extracting sine waves and I'm not working with periodic functions ..... you only have partial waveforms and are extracting non-sine waveform fragments, slopes... may be...
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    Programming Automated Trading

    I'm adding patterns that I know and use. The most basic first such as 1) trend, 2) trend with pullback and continuation or breakout 3) reversals The patterns are graphs (outlines) then stored in tables, each table represents one pattern. The actual values are interpolated so they can be...
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    Programming Automated Trading

    I started with Ninja Trader but switched to IB API C# and C++ several months ago .. first I built a TWS assistant (day trade assistant) that could buy and sell with single key entries .. it sets stop-loss and profit takers and can scale in/out .. that I've been using for about 6 weeks .. then I...
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    Programming Automated Trading

    I'd like to share with programmers design and results of algorithms for automated trading programs. Currently I have my own program running well, it scans for stocks that are volatile , capable of large changes for intraday trading. The stocks are watched for trends and reversals. The program...
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    Question from someone who know absolutely NOTHING about programming

    automated trading update friday RLYP BOT 17.595 (thur) ... held overnight and sold at opening surge for 20.40 fell and program rebought it at 18.72 bought TRIP bought CSTM
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    Question from someone who know absolutely NOTHING about programming

    And imagine a trading system without a GUI....LOL !! I go the other direction, I have a window pop-up for each of my TrendWatch processes when it is getting close to an action point (such as a buy or escalation of confidence) and it displays all the parameters and data it has at the moment...
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    IB API HOWTOs and Guidelines - For Beginners

    I can do the same type of thread for c# and/or c++ if there is enough interest here.
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    Question from someone who know absolutely NOTHING about programming

    Not much difference in difficulty, I use java 40% c, c++ or c# 60% , usually determined by the environment or system I'm developing for rather than any preference for the language. To me, C# is actually a modernized (easier) Java in my view (for windows). I recently ported a very large...
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    Question from someone who know absolutely NOTHING about programming

    C and C++ were my native languages. I have dozens of books. Windows or Linux? The Horton book is good for C++ on Windows. There are open source trading software development projects on the web. but some broker API might be the best even for learning , since the hard part (low-level...
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    Question from someone who know absolutely NOTHING about programming

    I am programming C# with the IB API. It has worked out very well for me. I had intended to port it (C#) to C++ for performance , but the C# is doing great ... handling 100 stocks, doing scanning, auto watch for trends and then popup the orderscreen or do automated buy, stop-loss, sell as I...
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