Developing "Spartan"

nooby_mcnoob · Nov 19, 2019

PS: my 100G database is now 17G after copying Arctic's ideas.

So glad you guys are on this thread. There is no way the system would be as high quality without your guys input, even if I am a dick about it sometimes.

nooby_mcnoob · Nov 22, 2019

Another profitable week. For the first time since I started active trading, I will reward myself by buying myself a new set of bluetooth headphones that can be used while running.

Previously, I had these $20 ali baba headphones that survived 5 whole years, and eventually I dropped them one too many times. These were the Voyager probe of headphones as far as I'm concerned.

Any recommendations welcome.

djames · Nov 25, 2019

OK Nooby, you seem to be too successful and therefore I think it only fair to the reset of us that you build your strategies using this Visual Basic written IB platform https://github.com/rlktradewright/tradebuild-platform from now on

nooby_mcnoob · Nov 25, 2019

djames said:
OK Nooby, you seem to be too successful and therefore I think it only fair to the reset of us that you build your strategies using this Visual Basic written IB platform https://github.com/rlktradewright/tradebuild-platform from now on

The first application I sold commercially was written in VB6. Don't knock VB6, probably one of the most productive environments for developers ever. So much so that Visual Studio copied it.

djames · Nov 25, 2019

I knew you would say that

nooby_mcnoob · Nov 25, 2019

djames said:
I knew you would say that

How did you know?

djames · Nov 25, 2019

English humor, I was being facetious.

nooby_mcnoob · Nov 25, 2019

djames said:
OK Nooby, you seem to be too successful

PS: pure luck, surely.

nooby_mcnoob · Nov 27, 2019

Buy vs Build

https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/trading-options-from-underlying-symbol-strategies.338201

When I started this thread, people were telling me that building my own thing was a dumb idea. They're probably right, let's be honest but this was exactly the type of thing I wanted to avoid.

1. I do the research
2. I do the testing
3. "Oh sorry, we don't support your instrument/data requirement"

I didn't even realize so many platforms had issues with trading options as I trade some options. So, firmly convinced on buy vs build to tilt towards build.

nooby_mcnoob · Dec 2, 2019

Figured I should update this thread with November results. Things are going well. Will do this going forward (updating monthly trading results). The 7 day loss was flat-ish and I usually hold a max of 2 days, if I'm going to hold overnight.