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    Institutional Trader Career

    Hi, Is anyone here an Institutional Trader or has worked at an institutional trading desk before? I have a computer science degree from johns hopkins university. and have worked at a retail trading firm for 2 years in the past. In addition, i have about 4 years of trading experience in...
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    Trader Monthly Magazine

    "DealFlow Media has acquired the assets of Doubledown Media LLC, including the global rights to publish and use Doubledown's names, its entire database of subscribers, and all trademarks and copyrights with the exception of Private Air. Included in the purchase are the assets relating to Trader...
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    how do people decide what options strategy to use?

    well i was wondering how firms trade options... or perhaps a proprietary trading firm. i understand that if you're just a beginner starting out and still learning about options... that people would generally pick one strategy to learn and test out. or perhaps find one they are comfortable...
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    how do people decide what options strategy to use?

    i know there's strategies for each type of market... depending on your view and bullish/bearishness. for example for moderately bullish market, there's bull call spread, bull put spread... etc etc and there's like 12 strategies for LONGS, 12 strategies for short.... 12 strategies for...
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    the PQ ROSE trade... just looking at an overlay charts of the two stocks.... there's not much deviation to exploit ....... in addition...... these two pairs are about to cross... meaning that the higher one is crossing to become the lower one.... and the higher one is dropping down and...
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    Inverted head and shoulders on the SPX?

    i think you made a mistake =D when you buy with market order, you're buying the offers on the offer side... also known as lifting offer.... when you market sell, you're hitting the bid. taking out the bid price (quantity of shares) i'm guessing you used to tape read NYSE stocks? :D
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    he usually watches near the close i believe and get in near the closing price. does anyone know how to find pairs with excel ? i mean yes i know i can get a certain amount of data for each symbol and then track the two symbol's correlations that way, but that requires me to get the data and...
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    oh yeah i just found out about http://impactopia.com/ yesterday. however, with this you have to type in a symbol... i was wondering if there is a way to just import a list of stocks and have it do the correlation calculation against all pairs..
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    hey guys, anyone find correlated pairs by using excel or methods other than pairtrade finder? Can anyone describe how they find their pairs? Do you get a list of all tradable symbols from a certain source, then input them all into an excel sheet? but how do you find the correlations...
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    hey guys, in the pictures posted here.... i understand the ratio, and the rsi charts... however, how does pairtrade finder filters for corelations? can anyone tell me what moving average it uses or something? ===================== Also, i was wondering if someone could explain how they...
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    sent you a pm :)
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    i'm talking about if you're not using that program.
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    anyone know how to filter for corelations?
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    Pair Trading (tradestation)

    does anyone have any experience at pair trading? how are the results? what are some obstacles you encountered? what have you noticed about the system.
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    well i couldn't download the software, because it requires you to download the windows installer as well, and i think windows installer will check if you have a legit copy of windows xp.... =\
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    hey johnny, I'm a late arrival to this thread and was wondering if you could tell me what criteria you're using to come up with these pairs? I know you use the pairtrading finder, but i'm having some issues with my computer right now and can't download the free trailer and try it myself...
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    anyone know how he is performing? i would love to see how effective pair trading is, however the post only shows the trade and not the pnl from the trade. anyone know a place where i can check out the backtested performance of pairtrading?
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    Pair Trading (tradestation)

    Is anyone Pair Trading right now? If so, how is the system working out for you? intraday/daily ? and does anyone know a good tradestation indicator for pair trading? or know of any free software for finding good pairs? would really appreciate some inputs.
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    how's your performance so far?
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    Trader P/L 2009

    here's mine from today: +$6709.10
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