This is a complicated issue. Basically because you have so little RAM, Windows can use very little of it for caching disk data which means that you will have much more swapping going on (delays). Windows 7 with 1 GB RAM is definitely a bad idea. Ok ...

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Your screenshot shows that you are running Windows 7 with 1 GB or RAM. You are aware that this is the absolute minimum requirement for Windows 7, right?

FXCM active trader web price lag & slippage

Time for a little status update. I've finished implementing support for all timeframes except weekly and monthly in my backtester. It takes 1.5 sec to load a currency pair (most of that being LZMA decompression). Switching between timeframes after ...

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You should check before you speak. On their site they only list the typical spread. The actual one is variable. For example here: url (when the market will be open) if you don't want to download their software. ????????? DB is ALWAYS a market ...

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Here's how the academic papers and market micro-structure books explain the divergence: Dealers come to work in the morning and have to: 1. execute client orders which accumulated during the night or which are passed in as clients come to work also. ...

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Try right-clicking on the link and choosing "Save Target As..."

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Not sure how useful it is. Quite math heavy. url

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Now available on the widget site: url

Windows Vista/7 desktop widget with realtime Forex rates - anybody interested?

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To do what with it inside MQL? I don't think you can replace the broker candles. You could use it to double-check quotes in an EA, so that you can avoid trading on spikes. Did you have something like this in mind?

Windows Vista/7 desktop widget with realtime Forex rates - anybody interested?

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Windows Vista/7 desktop widget with realtime Forex rates - anybody interested?

I downloaded the Excel file and looked at it. You are correct that MM doesn't change the expectancy. I agree with that. But this is not what I've said. I think that we are talking about two different issues. What I'm saying is this: Assume that I ...

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Sorry for misunderstanding you. Yes, it doesn't provide an edge. But it makes the difference between getting 1% or getting 10% annually from your edge. You make it sound like people should not worry about finding an optimum MM at all. I hope this is ...

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For those asking, the images I posted were from this book: url

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I believe in math. Math shows that FIFO and hedging are the same thing, except the extra spread you pay when hedging. I wrote all the formulas on paper and checked them myself. I also believed that you couldn't replicate a longer system holding a ...

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Martingale like techniques can be useful, but you have to know what you're doing. First, they should be employed only in relation with another statistical edge, like hanover says. I have an experiment proposal for you. You said that you couldn't ...

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I've been thinking about playing with synthetics. Have you done something in this area? I want to create baskets which maximize certain patterns (more towards quant style analysis). For example EUR/USD - S&P 500 should generate something more ...

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Well, there is no need to pay the "enterprise tax" and buy a Tesla yet. You can use you own desktop video card for prototyping a GPU-based NN. I did try using OpenCL for tick filtering and converting ticks to candles, and while it worked and it was ...

Any good hardware guys here?