This is the feed from Dukascopy during last week's NFP report. Note how the spread blew out to over 20 pips follwing the announcement. Oanda's...
The trend is your friend 'til it (b)ends...
Heating oil and RBOB futures are both rolling today - the crack spreaders have to adjust their positions. (Based on a short Reuters article)
If you work with daily charts, the best backtester is Tradingblox. It's not as good with intraday, as you have to finesse the data to fit the...
finviz.com. Go to the screener, then pick out a pattern from the "signal" drop-down box.
Buffett's counterparties are allowing his positions to go underwater, to the point where mere mortals would have been "asked" to put up more...
Saw this on FT's Alphaville blog: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/11/15/405106/inside-an-fx-ipo/#comments Interesting to see audited...
There are no interest charges, since the broker is not lending you the money. The "margin" is techincally a performance bond, which could be...
Did some number come out at 1:30??? Gold and oil fell off a cliff! Maybe CL found NoDoji's secret pictures.
You know that CL is trading badly when even ES (the ultimate back-and-fill market) is trading better!
Dukascopy and Alpari both claim to be ECN brokers, so you can look into those guys. Note that you also pay a commission on top of the spread with...
The 2:10-2:15 bar looked like a pile driver - ker-CHUNK, ker-CHUNK. Price seemed to move in 10-tick increments.
I would add that the election results could move the dollar/S&P index after hours, which may carry over into the next day's trading. Since CL has...
The "Official Turtle Trading Rules" (easily found with a bit of googling) has pyramiding rules built in. The forums at tradingblox.com has...
INTP.
Should the "80% rule" (i.e., breaking up through the VAL and trading up to the VAH) hold, there could be a lot of follow-through.
Natural gas had a nice mid-day move today as well - about 140 ticks in only an hour. Not nearly as liquid as CL, though.
The forum at tradingblox.com has a VERY in-depth discussion of turtle/trend-following techniques. No detail is too small.
You can do this in excel. When you "activate" the regression line in the chart, you can check the "show formula" box in the menu. You have to...
Care to elaborate? Are you referring to Market Wizards?
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