collective2

John Merchant · Apr 11, 2005

In fact I went to a course once where the vendor was angling to manage funds in the $1M class in a private advisory capacity. I told him if I had a million fucking dollars I wouldn't be taking his course.

5yrtrader · Apr 11, 2005

Quote from OddTrader:

Do you have any ideas about why many systems/ signals vendors would not set up their hedge funds?

Because their systems don't work.

OddTrader · Apr 12, 2005

Quote from John Merchant:

In fact I went to a course once where the vendor was angling to manage funds in the $1M class in a private advisory capacity. I told him if I had a million fucking dollars I wouldn't be taking his course.

LOL. "Students cannot be better than their teachers"!?

OddTrader · Apr 12, 2005

Quote from 5yrtrader:

Because their systems don't work.

I guess that would be probably true in terms of consistency and reliability in the long run.

ElectricSavant · Apr 12, 2005

Oddtrader,

I see your back to your one-liners...I had hope for you.

OddTrader · Apr 12, 2005

Quote from ElectricSavant:

Oddtrader,

I see your back to your one-liners...I had hope for you.

winter · Apr 12, 2005

Quote from OddTrader:

OddTrader, you put that confused smiley in many (most?) of your posts. Is that your signature or are you really confused most of the time? :eek:

OddTrader · Apr 12, 2005

Quote from winter:

OddTrader, you put that confused smiley in many (most?) of your posts. Is that your signature or are you really confused most of the time? :eek:

Avid_Consumer · Oct 17, 2005

why does collective2 display hypothetical intraday results as if they were traded with > 20 lots? the #s are misleading

there are also instances where historical fills listed are outside the price range of the actual trading that occurred.

sketchy

thenewguy · Oct 17, 2005

I have/had a system on there but gave up because the trade interface is kinda klunky and awkward and still had some bugs in it. I agree, the fills aren't entirely accurate, because they (like all simulations) don't account for the cue (where you are in the place of the line of orders) and the size impacts on the market, and some other things. However, having said that, you probably aren't going to trade size that matters, or have to worry too much about the cue when you are starting out. The interface improves at a good pace, and Matthew is a good guy who works hard at making it a great product.

All in all I'd say that it depends where you are in the learning process... It may be a good place to start, but as the budda guy said, you really need to figure that out for yourself.

- The New Guy