That sounds like a good idea. In the past, I haven't bothered to even try to simulate limit orders. I'll definately be adding this to my toolkit...
It seems to me that a more likely reason for the volatility is that many of the big hedge funds (i.e. big speculators) that would normally be...
ChrisMMM, what tools, and programming languages did you use?
I don't know about fidelity, but when downloading eod data from yahoo you will frequently not have the EOD price for a lot of stocks by 6:00 PST...
At least you aren't like most people on this board who ask that question, that have 10k, but still with 25k it's not likely that you could make...
rosy2, In your opinion, specifically what is it that causes independent electronic daytraders to fail?
I'm in a very similar situation. Small Business owner. Business is good, but tougher than it used to be. I started thinking seriously about...
I find that as a "counter-trend" day-trader, the worse aspect of these big-trend days, is that I often actually trade worse than on normal days....
No, that is not correct. You do not need to own shares to be short options.
I don't know how to get a list of all symbols that existed, but you can get historical index components, for the major indices at their relevant...
Who said anything about flawed? I'm sure the numbers in Bloomberg are basically correct. What I'm not so sure about is that the fundamental data...
You have to be careful when you use fundamental data for a backtest. A lot of the data gets revised after the fact, and the reported values in...
Start out by opening an account with a brokerage that has very low commissions, and that allows you to trade a variety of markets, such as...
Will we be able to opt out on one account, while still using the security device for another account? For my main trading account, I definately...
Glad this isn't only me! Automatic update loads every single day when I start any of my 3 PC's now, instead of every few days like it used to....
What specific features are available in SmartQuant that aren't in OpenQuant?
I think IB limits you to like 50 or 100 data streams, so you may not be able to scan 200 stocks.
Thank you very much for that summary!
Another choice is to just use the ActiveX control...I posted basic C# code demonstrating how to use the ActiveX control a while back:...
Damn, I was wondering why ENT was up so much after hours. I knew I could come here to this thread and find out what was going on. (I wish I had...
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