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Hi, any global macro traders around? By that I mean traders/investors who trade on any timeframe in any asset-class in any country and do their own extensive research, focusing on developments on a wide scale. I am starting at a fundamental orientated quant-fund soon (#1 in its category)...

I don't understand how it works. Which broker do I use?

Hi, is there a way to autotrade OTCBB & Pinksheets?

Hi all, I have one investor who is urging me to start a HF in the next 12-18 months or sooner (instead of waiting 2-3 years). I don't have the CV to start at another HF (especially now), but that doesn't bother me that much, because I am interested in starting my own business. We have some...

@doli: Have you tried to up the code onto Sourceforge? People could submit Bugs etc. http://atbot.cvs.sourceforge.net I haven't figured out how to create a downloadable version yet.

Thanks again for this great thread. I did set up a SF account so that downloads and bug reports of other members can be tracked.

Did you check out JSystemtrader? The scope seems to be very similiar. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsystemtrader/ http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77554&perpage=6&pagenumber=3

Thanks a bunch for posting. A quick remark: setting up a Sourceforge project should be more convinient after a certain number of lines of code is reached. I would like to contribute if I can. BTW there is also an opensoure lib called CCAPI which could be interesting for you. I get an...

I'm not a newbie. I'm giving advice to newbies, but don't have a good overview over all the mini-future contracts. My advice would usually be not to start with commodities, but stocks or forex. I've got somebody who wants to start out with commodities and I don't know what to say. For the...

Hi there, I tried a search but couldn't get a useful result. What is the minimum account size if one wants get started with commodity (mini-) futures trading? 10,000$, 20,000$? Which contracts would you suggest?

Ok, great. The infrastructure - that's exactly what I'm talking about. I want to have anconceptual and later a technical infrastructure. The technical infrastructure is of course based on the conceptual one. For example, let's say I somehow have an idea about the oil price. I think oil is...

Of course many will oppose to my proposition. To explain what I mean it is best to review the concept of technical analysis. The theory can be in the west tracked down to writings of Charles Dow. The heart of the dow theory is actually in my view intermarket analysis. I think the best book on...

@TraderMojo: I went through your thread. Certainly very interesting from the technical side. I'm thinking of your post where you summarize: Price(?) -> Blackbox -> Orders That's where my problem is. It's that technical analysis is a very weak foundation for ATS.

Of course you are right with the average joe and thanks for the links. Actually I was not talking only about news interpretation. My question was in fact where do I get more information on these topics? Not only information, but how can I apply these technologies. Note I'm not working in an...

I'm into AI and be assured it doesn't work that way. In the 80s one had Expert Systems and it just didn't work out. What can be used are techniques from computerlinguistiks (latent semantic analysis for instance). I heavily doubt that this is "mainstream", because the methods only exist in...

That's what Reuters is doing. The big question is how to extract information from the meta tags and make semantic analysis. Neural Nets are not going to help in this case.

Absolutely! I think EW and candles are as good as anything (tossing a coin, throwing a dart). Trading as such is probablistic. I find programm trading much more powerful, because one can backtest, scale and automate.

When people say it doesn't work it doesn't mean it can not work. Yes, Reuters has these tags, but that doesn't mean much. You always have to integrate it, into a system. Tradestation already has components for fundamentals AFAIK. I think that Tradestation is not really a plattform to...

What does it take to become an algorithmic trader 'hotshot'? My guess is creativity. All these people who walk on trampled paths make me wonder who set them on this track the first place. For instance why does nobody use fundamental & technical data? Why does nobody try to model behaviour...

Start with Shleifer.