I've heard people talking about replaing live trading sessions for practice. I am really interested in this. What software / data is required?...
I guess that all of this means that even with Straddles you need to have a bias towards one direction.
Hey, thanks for the responses, I've learned a lot from this thread. I like knowing that the $75 straddle should be priced the same with a $72...
I know a *little* bit about volatility, but not enough to understand what happened to this DNA straddle. On Thursday, before we knew whether...
I am getting data from IQFeed right now. I should check to see if they offer the asian markets. I didnt think any of these guys did. Have you...
What do people mean on ET when they are talking about 'The Hybrid Market'? Why has the Hybrid market killed tape-reading? Thanks,
Does anyone here trade the korean or japanese market? I am interested in the asian markets so that I can trade them overnight, but specifically...
Excellent, I am going to be doing exactly this on Monday's open. Two questions: 1) Why SPY options. Is it because of the extra liquidity?...
I'm in canada so I dont have the PDT rule. So it sounds like options are a good way to daytrade, at least, superior to equities. But you...
I'm interested in doing some short-term trading, holding positions for just a few minutes, perhaps an hour. I've seen videos of daytraders doing...
I'm still new at this but what I wanted to do was find a way to play volatility. I see daytraders range-trading throughout the day on...
I'm looking at straddles as a daytrade mechanism (sometimes only a few minutes in length, upto a few hours). I wonder, what are some...
I'm canadian (Hellz, yeah) , thinking of using think or swim canada.. I hear about some PDT pattern day trader regulation in the US. Does...
I heard a few people talking about JSystemTrader. I am just rolling my own custom backtester in Java..
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Does anyone know of any good trading chat rooms? Perhaps some that have people online during the weekend chatting about stuff ahead of the...
Can someone point me to a good vector DBMS? I cant seem to find anything. Wrong keyword perhaps?
It seems to me that text files and loading in the data would be prohibitively expensive in the RAM department. I am using SQL relational...
I see, so even full-time day traders are only making 20 or 30% returns? So I guess in order to make $50k, they are trading with $250k of...
Why is it that in a lot of literature, and on TV, 10-15% returns are heralded as such a great accomplishment? CNBC and other networks herald...
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