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- fourth replied Aug 3, 2009
Just curious but has anyone even seen prices this far off wack? I bet they are not executing at those prices. I had an issue with ODL one day where they were quoting one price but executing another. I had it fixed within a few hours. Has anyone ...
- fourth replied Jul 1, 2009
Sorry, I forgot to add, for sydney Crime rates are pretty good, consider the fact that a gun going of makes the state news..., someone getting killed by a gun makes every news station in the country. Most crime is things like car theft (no jacking ...
- fourth replied Jul 1, 2009
hahaha.. I looked in to Dubai for a while. I didn't like the idea of 50deg weather, living indoors, in a compound.... Next to Iran. Panama looked good from what I saw. I kind of like the idea of living in Nice... In the end though, I'm already in ...
- fourth replied Jul 1, 2009
I'll echo that spread + commission is not that important. With a EU spread of around 0.8 average (on my broker, during my trading session) and a commission of around 0.4 the cost to surpass to become profitable is 1.2. I wont do the math here but ...
- fourth replied Jun 30, 2009
Thanks Sam. I guess then there must be SL and RR adjustments made to ensure your reward is greater than your risk.
- fourth replied Jun 30, 2009
Exact position of your trades? — A few quick questions if I may: -Are you guys positioning your trades directly on the SR line or at some level of distance away from it? -If price does break by a few points when do you call it quits. I've ...
- fourth replied Sep 19, 2008
ON a live account you will suffer emotionally if you have to try and sleep on an open loss, even if you system handles losses(drawdowns) of that size. Most MT4 platforms (others?) will requote you. For this reason I trade with scripts that just keep ...
- fourth replied Sep 19, 2008
Tom, doesn't that contradict what you wrote in your other thread(on luck) about your trading style being writing EA' that are based on historically profitable setups? If you are profitable the professor was wrong?
- fourth replied Sep 19, 2008
I tend to agree with tom. Outside arbitrage, and to an extent mean reversion systems typical 'pick a direction' trading IS luck. To an extent. To me being lucky is nothing more than being on the positive side of randominity. The technique a trader ...
- fourth replied Sep 17, 2008
Thanks a lot guys for the help. I'm writing out he first cut of the code now. The two AHA's I needed were that BUYing AUDUSD implicitly sold USD, etc, etc. (I've never needed to think about that before) The second thing I sort of suspected but ...
- fourth replied Aug 15, 2008
Sure, the close script is actually unmodified from the one I use for closing trades for other strategies. You have to add an input, which is called TradeChar. It will then look over al your open trades and find all he trades that have that exact ...
- fourth replied Aug 15, 2008
Just a small contrib. A bit of effort could come up with something way more useful than this but here are a few little script I whipped up to play with this system. Up : Open a pair of positions. You would use Up when the Spillman indicator is ...
- fourth replied Aug 14, 2008
Keep your legs crossed... — Oh, I should have mentioned that I also use a system that is similar to cutting a let. I don;t go after big pips with this though. I have a script that very quickly opens positions to minimise the arb drift between ...
- fourth replied Aug 14, 2008
Black Swans — This part of the system, that is the portion that relates to risk of massive divergence from the first entry position is clearly the location of the biggest risk. As someone who uses a system similar than this and has suffered a ...
- fourth replied Aug 12, 2008
I have been trading oil contracts for some time with a similar system (Brent over WTI) and the biggest issue there is handling the largest possible divergence. With my system I have a tolerance of the arb going against me by 1000 pips (~$10 ...
- fourth replied Jul 8, 2008
Thanks for the quick reply.
- fourth replied Jul 8, 2008
Oh, a last word of advice. Don't trade the emotion right now. Last night I watched the long positions in the market get eroded by around $6. I was hedged so didn't really care if the price went up or down. If you plan on getting rich as oil moves ...
- fourth replied Jul 8, 2008
Research topics: -Oil ARB trading -Convergence trading when executing paired WTI-Brent trades -Crack Spreads. Other than that, the market is fairly predictable on the tick charts. Support and resistance at a micro scale seem to be honoured so ...
- fourth replied Mar 26, 2008
HA! In Replying to my own thread I noticed that our awesome related treads list at the bottom of my thread has some very interesting information in this thread: url I've never really seen the purpose of limit orders! So... in my system I guess the ...
- fourth replied Mar 26, 2008
99. Because this is a part of a hedge trade it's not an advantage for one side to trade and for the other side to open at a different rate due to being requoted, which would probably delay the open even more and drive up the real slippage. If I set ...