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BTW, I plan on using stops for entries.. if that makes any difference.
A lot of it will depend on how fast IdealPro executes a market order... and how long the market stays at one price. My guess is that under normal...
Joerg, sounds like you are someone I want to talk to.. how do your stops get filled? I found that I get a lot of slippage with stops (even when...
Thanks Don, Your firm sounds good for equities, but many of our strategies are based on FX (futures and spot). These include cross rates and at...
Does anyone know of a prop firm that trades in ALL of the following: 1. Equities 2. Futures 3. Spot FX Bright Trading for example only...
Don's point makes sense to me. There is a lot of fraud out there and registering is one way to walk the line.
a year is not really that far back in time. If you trade it, one method is to stop trading once in real time it hits an all time low in the equity...
I found this in IB's website: "Buy Simulated Stop Orders become market orders when the last traded price is greater than or equal to the stop...
Anyone?
Are talking about diversification or hedging? You can hedge a long gold position by selling a gold futures contract = no risk (less cost of...
Good point.. if you are talking about buying an option to hedge a position. My thoughts were along the lines of using futures contracts to...
I've been building a database off of IdealPro's API and today had a buy stop get filled with 3 pips of slippage (on GBPUSD). I looked at the...
By defenition, a fully hedged portfolio is risk free and also return free as well. (no risk - no reward). What some of these posts refer to are...
how far back have you backtested?
I was thinking about this... I wonder if it would be prudent to showcase our technology in this way. It would be cool it this is in fact what...
Yes, I use one. I go straight for the phone or an in person meeting as soon as I can. You can get to know someone's personality so much...
Really? What do they want? Will they invade Tokyo? S. Korea? China? I just don't think so. If they are not out for territorial gains then what...
follow the smart money ie commercials or IB
About 12% in my discretionary account. I was following the commercials in GBP/USD. Don't ask me how my 'other' accounts did :) And don't...
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