TimeZone — Just wandering what time zones the automated traders use on this thread. Has anyone tested the result of their system using different timezones?

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This is saying something for MBT. Surely the most easy thing is to always supply/store data in GMT. If another timezone is needed simply convert on receiving/retrieving. Bet you their other providers supply data in gmt.

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Poor Scotty's journey — Scotty is going to be a C++/SQL programmer, just like that. It takes many years for people to become a programmer just like it take years to become a trader. And just like trading a lot of people will never get it. I ...

Trading Prerequisites - Doing it Right

IB Limitations — I agree that IB spread is good and execution is pretty ok too. However they have a minimum transaction fee of 2.50 which makes them pretty expensive when you do not trade full lots. Their API is awfull and the platform ...

What is a 'large' position?

Java — Why not just use Fedora/Java/Eclipse. Standard developers install and you can focus on your trading ideas right away. A lot of brokers have JAVA api's so why make it more difficult. (IB,dukascopy,currenex etc)

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To discuss tools on high level fair enough. But to discuss basic setup of some specific tools seems out of scope to me. But I guess it is up to the thread owner.

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tutorial — Why not continue this not so interesting tutorial in a more appropriate thread.

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Going Live — I have gone live with my first system about a month ago. (see attachment). Since I have gone live the curve has been moving sideways(typical) On a positive note it is still behaving within the performance parameters. This is a ...

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I disagree. Ofcourse you are not defying the odds just progressing them (see labouchere on link provided by spekkiefx). And you should still always have a stoploss at one point and abandon the system. But the fact is that the likely hood of a loss ...

Money Management for the Year Round Professional Sports Handicapper

Strategy Optimisation — I personally think it is a waist of time to just blindly combine strategies using the brute force method. You will probably find that you get some staggering results. The problem is that it will most likely not behave ...

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