If you use Redi, Reuters, Bloomberg, AT-Financial they all have dde links. Other services could have them, but I use the above. Yahoo's server...
Are you referring to an expected value equation? i.e. pwin =.50 plose =.50 avgwin =$3.00 avgloss =$1.00...
to run a Monte Carlo simulation on the securities you intend to trade. You'll need to know the mean, sd and moments of the distributions of the...
Is my choice. No lockups, no conflicts and it generates a log of the ip addresses of those vermin scanning your system. I send an e-mail to the...
Travis: Great questions! The market is a non-stationary, stochastic process. In other words, we can never be certain of what is about to...
What you've synthetically constructed is a long call position. Long stock delta = +100 long put delta = -40. Net position is equivalent to...
From 1995 to 2000 I ran four systems that I trained to trade foreign exchange spot and derivatives at a US securities firm. We had negligble...
I concur . Tradestation is a blunt tool, not a system to trade with. It crashes frequently and is the resource hog of all time. There really...
In addition to the previous reply, the position of long stock, short 60 call and long 60 put has exactly zero exposure to the market. We're...
I'm an ex-CME member and "cars" does indeed refer to railway cars. Early on the CME's biggest products were cows and pigs (and their parts) and...
Put / Call parity! Options pricing is all about portfolio replication. Let's look at your example of AMD: Stock price = 9.70 Strike...
Backtest Wizard is available at http://option-wizard.com I haven't used the program...
These things are set up as LLC's - limited liability corporations. The "limited" liability doesn't apply if any fraudulent activity takes place....
I am presently involved in a small hedge fund and have a few observations: The fee structure is usually as follows mgmt fee of 2% per year paid...
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