This isn't necessarily a good idea, but one thing you can do to increase your percentage is to widen your stop-loss, or replace it with a...
I wonder if defense industry layoffs will trigger a serious real-estate downturn in San Diego? Long deployments aren't good for defense...
If it happens, I'll probably be thinking the same thing I was thinking on 9/11: "Thank God Bush won instead of Gore!". BTW, using most any...
Thank you! I needed exactly this for something I was working on last weekend. My observational skills must really suck, because I was looking at...
Not that I know of. Does INET provide a webservice for real-time quotes?
Here is a simple C# Windows Forms app that demonstrates connecting to the TWS API, and retrieving market data. This might help you out. It...
(1) Start a new windows forms project from scratch. (2) Go to the form Designer view. (3) Right-click on a blank spot in the toolbox. (4)...
Does anyone know what the symbol for the dow tick is in IB? Is it even available? I know how to get TICK-NYSE and TICK-NASDAQ using TWS, but...
Those rare occasions when I happen to venture out into morning or evening rush-hour traffic are when I most appreciate being self-employed and...
I have to agree with the others. Stay away from C++ if your a beginner. You don't need what it has to offer so there's no reason to subject...
Here's some interesting looking articles I downloaded in case anyone is interested. I haven't gotten a chance to even skim them yet. (I plan to...
Wow, I'm really looking forward to reading what you have to say about that.
I really hope that in addition to enlisting the expert legal advice available on Elite Trade, that you're Father is going to get a lawyer to help...
I see people recommending this place a lot on this board: http://tickdata.com/ They have an interesting white paper about filtering high...
I too started out attempting to create a comprehensive backtesting/trading platform (in C#), with individual componetized parts like that. I...
Acrary, dummy-variable, Riskarb
I've done a fair amount of experimenting with neural networks using daily stock data. For me, the results were usually interesting, but nothing...
What I meant was this. I've only been looking at high frequency data for a little while, and I've been going back and forth on what type of...
Well I don't literally mean 10 ticks or so, but that is what you mean when you say that you don't use bars....you use x number of last trade price...
By this, do you mean you calculate the variance ratio in "trading time" instead of real time sort of like this: vr = last 10 tick variance /...
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