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    Can I keep my Sharpe ratio higher then 4 for the rest of the year?

    nice result, thanks for sharing. would you mind posting an equity curve for the year? what asset class (stocks, options, futures etc ) do you trade, what market?
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    historical market news

    I'm interested in downloading historical market news for stocks or indicies. It would be first sufficient to know the number of news & announcements appeared on the market on a given day in the past. Where can I download such a data series? I know yahoo finance has historical headlines but...
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    Automated Trading Championship: 2006 and 2007

    thx for the comprehensive answer. Many PhD students would be glad to be able to publish results and gather credit points that way. You can really take KDD CUP (http://www.kdd2007.com/kddcup.html) as a good example. Besides academia, many serious practitioners participated (and won prices)...
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    Automated Trading Championship: 2006 and 2007

    Do you organize a workshop or conference where best ranked participants are invited to submit papers and present their winning strategies and ideas? (Because strategies are not developed for real trading, I assume it is not a problem for winners to reveal their successful ideas - as usual at...
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    basic question: hedging with index opions - pls help

    MTE, thanks a lot, but I don't really get your last sentence. Are you saying that underlying+put option = call option? How can I find one with a big gamma? (As I understood gamma is the measure of "asymmetricity")
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    basic question: hedging with index opions - pls help

    thanx for your reply. The biggest advantage of options over futures in this case is that options have an asymmetric gain function, so it makes possible to avoid losses and allow gains at the same time (theoretically). I now tried out at IB to select an option for my needs. Fortunately, in...
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    basic question: hedging with index opions - pls help

    basic setup: At some point in time during market hours, I would like to hedge my nasdaq portfolio against further declines. I've never traded options, read through some CBOE edu sites, still need help to start. I learned that I should by a PUT option NDX. Questions regarding further...
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    Frosty's trading bot goes live part 2

    "having a backtested + papertested / statistically proven method is the most you can hope for as a sign that it will work live" Crucial is that temporal unfavorable market conditions do not shake you out of confidence when going real. That is, one should avoid losing too much too soon while...
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    Frosty's trading bot goes live part 2

    frosty, how do you prune your decision tree to avoid overfitting? t
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    Frosty's trading bot goes live part 2

    frost, in order to reduce pain, can't you scale down your strategy a litte? Obviously you can't lower position sizes but you could consider tuning other strategy parameters (profit targets, stop loss, timeouts etc) to reduce risk. Sure, this would probably reduce profitability also but you...
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    Frosty's trading bot goes live part 2

    frost, curious what AI methods do you use and for what? t
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    Frosty's trading bot goes live part 2

    frost, what is your condition for stopping the bot? torel ps.: thx for sharing your experience!
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    emi.nasdaq.com open cross report problem

    I used to query the site for first trading prices after market open but since the SingleBook integration they fail to provide correct prices. First prices are placed into the column before the last in the opening cross report - they are there, but they are rounded to the nearest integer. The...
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    Please help to clarify this (odd lot trade not filled)

    Thanks a lot. I need exact regulatory infos to be able to argue. Any good documentation on differences between handling odd lots and round lots? (I only found NYSE regulation until now)
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    Please help to clarify this (odd lot trade not filled)

    Thx for the encouraging help. I contacted my broker immediately and I received this answer from them: The problem here is that you are entering an odd lot order and odd lot orders are not posted to the tape therefore someone will have to buy from you or sell to you at your price and...
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    Please help to clarify this (odd lot trade not filled)

    I placed a limit order SELL@86.95 on my 36 WCG shares today right after market open. The stock got halted after 12:30 and rose directly after resumption to reach the daily high 87.00 (see attached T&S) My order has not been filled despite the fact that there were many transactions between...
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    IB API Modify Order Question

    resubmit your modified orders with same id without cancellation. check out the IB board for details.
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    IB site down (not TWS)

    here ok now as well. :p thanks for all the king help! p.s. www.interactivebrokers.com still not pingable
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    IB site down (not TWS)

    I can't experience any improvement. :mad: Trying the .co.uk site, I can trace the whole route back until www.interactivebrokers.co.uk .
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