Sure beats "The trend is you friend".

Systematic trading

You are correct, I was talking about having a profitable strategy, which you won't find on FF. Forex is only risky if you are overleveraged, risk control is key. There also tons of other markets that allow you to diversify your portfolio, which can ...

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I had read through them, will have another read for motivation. Making just under a mill in one day is the goal, wonder what he makes now! He seemed to compound his returns.

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What if you sold your company or inherited a lump sum, a one off increase in your wealth. You can invest in many ways and if you can trade well and beat passive investment then it's crazy not to invest in your trading.

No more BS - What have you learned?

On Nuclear Phynance? Wow interesting, will look a his books also. Yeah who knows with Acrary, I did find his thread on ET introduced me to a more rigorous way of looking at at trading, rather than the fluff on FF. Its difficult to know what's true ...

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Similar, I have ordered the Natenberg book, after reading options forum on ET where the posters who seemed to know their stuff suggested it required reading. Still lots to learn!. Been reading through the hack the market blog also, thanks for the ...

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Sounds like you are progressing though, the volatility will come back, so sounds like a case of make hay while the sun shines. I am currently watching this lecture series to fill in some gaps in my general knowledge. Good for a overall grounding in ...

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Risk management is key, i don't mean just using stops I mean what if a black swan happens or your internet connection is cut, use of options, ups etc Be sure your system and strategies have some statistical positive expectancy. Have a decent ...

No more BS - What have you learned?

Glad to see this thread is alive still, the small shiny diamond amongst the 3 trillion tons of shit that is FF. I just started a new contract (as a .NET developer) in an investment bank, sitting next to traders and quants, which is weird. Not what I ...

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I have been gone a while, come back to find all hell has broken lose.! Just wanted to say James16 is not a scammer, sure he is a business man, offering a service, and I sometime think he lays on the nice guy too much, but I maybe wrong and he is ...

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Good luck Mikkom, hope it goes well.

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You still have to go through all weekdays, how is that random check? Each to their own, I find SQL painful to use for anything complex I can use linq and C# (thanks spekkie) collections to do the same.

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Im not sure I could implement a strategy in SQL, im sure it can be done, but im not a guru so I need to use other tools. However if all you are doing is loading the data into an external system for analysis then its not needed, and causes bloat. To ...

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Nah its not needed for tick data, storing the results of your back tests in the database for analysis with SQL makes sense, but not price data, there is the reason most chart software store price data in files and not databases.

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I plan to load straight from Disk leaving the ticks in the bin format (Dukascopy) rather than storing them into a DB.

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Just a word of advice, spending all your time getting some tick data to load a bit faster maybe the wrong place to focus. If you can load 1 million ticks in 20 secs but haven't got a profitable system then its not really going to help.

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I dont think I can make this work for me then. Maybe I need to look at longer term. Strats seems like a good option.

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Yeah its dead at that time. Wish I lived in another TimeZone i.e. I arrived hom from work as London opened.

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I suppose you need 3-4 hours uninterrupted during a liquid period in the markets to make this work. I can access my borker at work in from 1-5pm GMT so there might be an opportunity there.

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Do you mean to learning?, I have plenty of free time in evening and weekends to do that, just the from bout 8-6 mon-fri gmt (ie London open to well into ny open) I am at work.

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