200 day MA has been irrelevant for about 10 years now.
successful trader - doesn’t look at charts
Example: AMZN at 1770 BUY LIMIT = 1780 => you will instantly get filled, very unlikely that price moves above 1780 within the next 200ms or so it...
why no dark pools?
looking at an order today: to get first 200 lot fill took 57ms after submission
it takes on average of around 30ms to 40ms from submitting an order via API to API updating it as "presubmitted"
8000 SPY typically completely fills within 250ms as a marketable limit order 8ms ping from virginia aws
schweiz: good writeup, thanks.
i wish aoc would just stick to instagramming...
glad I am not the only one... that and a competing live session alert via API
I’d recommend porting to C# - a C like language without the fear of null pointers and with garage collection built in. personally I am developing...
not true: if your strategy says to go for it go for it... the best trades are also often the costliest with the highest slippages that run away...
i am surprise nobody has mentioned using a trailing stop yet - it adjusts as you go
actually the complete opposite is the case: 80% “success rate” => almost certainly curve fitted, will fail in real live trading.
the groups.io group is pure wisdom stick to that one
since 1/2/2013: Buy and hold: 79% net return BUY SPY if closing price > 200 day sma and SELL SPY if closing price < 200 day sma => 73% net...
looking at the 200sma doesn’t beat buy and hold... maybe it did in the 70s to 90s which is irrelevant at this point
a “bearish kiss”? Ill stick to horoscopes instead
been seeing horrible fills on SMART as well in paper trading and put moving account to ib on hold
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