I see, yeah thats a lot of data, Ive never had to deal with such a large amount, have a look at url

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I'm, starting to think that having years upon years of tick data or minute data inst going to be much use, I am thinking just setting up methods to paper trade and monitor them using a meta system. Trying to find an edge to fit markets over 10 years ...

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Great thanks, Craig. I think this way of trading requires a lot of work upfront, but once everything is in place it (hopefully) becomes easier. I think I have a good 6 months of coding ahead of me lol. But I love this stuff. Mark

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What is GA, sorry im still learning about this way of trading. Mark

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Why not have a column with timeframe and one for instrument, than you only need on table. Depending how long it takes though you might want to generate timeframes at runtime.

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Thanks Craig There is a grid widget and there is kdchart widgets with look excellent. QT Creator is really good it has great code completion and gui designer. See image. So it sounds like you built everything from scratch is that right? Charts, back ...

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Hi Guys, Ive spent this week setting up my Linux box, and reading through ET (Acrary and ericp , thanks craig). I also have been studying statistics and probability. Being a programmer I want to built most of my system software myself (probably in ...

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Look at this forum, over 700 are in in the trading systems or cable/euro etc threads, others are in the popular commercial threads that are designed to get subs. The rest are probably in journals or trying to write an EA in MT4. A few are in here ...

New study shows only 1% of traders are consistently successful

I read quite a few books on trading, I liked the wizard books and also Reminiscence of a Stock Operator, the rest were a waste.

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No wonder a lot hedge fund go bust, profit factor is a key measurement in trading.

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Thanks for that video, he right about risking profits over risking your initial capital.

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Yeah, thats him, he got over emotional when his hedge fund started to unravel.

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Have you ever watched wall street warriors? There is a guy who trades from his room and turned 13k into 1 million in a year or two. It was stocks he trades though, although like you I have never seen absolute proof of it in FX.

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Ok thanks Craig, I suppose there are other options out there that offer FIX, would rather get a free demo service access first though.

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An edge is needed, that for sure, but if you don't manage the trade well the losses will wipe out your edge and without MM you will blow up. There are many edges out there but if you edge relies on information based on rumour of orders or guesswork ...

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Or to quote Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein

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The higher ROR% the better, the lower DD the better. Also if they as you your trading strategy, don't say Strats Stress free trading thread on FF.

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I don't think splitting the atom is a good analogy to trading at all. When I talk about Kiss I am talking in terms of entering a trade and the reasons for doing so. If you pile on indicator after indicator and add complexity such as trying to ...

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Don't worry about hijacking, this is all part of the discussion and your posts are the always lucid and objective. Good luck with the programming.

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Great thread here, Im looking seriously at system trading. I am a programmer by day so Im sure that will help (C#). Ive been reading through Acrarys posts and also watching lectures on statistics, to refresh my self. I am looking at suing MB's FIX ...

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