Why bother with all these lame ETFs when you can just short GC or the associated mini? Much better all around.
Vail has better skiing than Aspen, assuming Japanese tourists don't bother you. It's probably cheaper to live in one of Vail's bedroom...
Why wouldn't they look? If I were a broker, and I had an account that just went up several hundred percent, I'd definitely be curious. I might...
I imagine a good chat room could give you a heads-up about that sort of stuff. But I'm not aware of any websites.
If the only concern was piggybacking, then obviously that's nothing to worry about. It should be beneficial. However, knowing the system it...
This would seem to be the obvious way to hide. The downside is that it potentially increases margin requirements by a factor of the number of...
Duly noted, but I know from first hand experience that competent bookies steal information from profitable/knowledgable bettors - not only do...
Imagine the following situation: you are trading a profitable system using a popular futures contract as the instrument. The system has a long...
I think it's trivially easy to defend scaling in and scaling out when you're trading size. More or less the definition of size is that you can't...
This seems like a correct answer. The reason spot co-exists with derivatives in any market is that they are NOT the same. If they were, they...
Also a great suggestion. Thanks. Since most of the suggestions boil down to "tackle one of the APIs" I'm just biting the bullet and doing it in...
All excellent suggestions. Thanks.
I'd like to dump TWS' historical 5min bar data for a bunch of futures contracts to .csv or .xls files or some similar format. Is there an easy...
Yes, it's called logic and independent validation. Armed with these amazing tools, you no longer have to be afraid that your mush-like brain will...
Agreed, but always be careful about continuous contract data. It sometimes implies prices that were never available in any actual market. if you...
Good for IB :D
Certainly in ES no one is hunting 1 lot stops. It takes roughly 300 contracts per tick to move the ES price during regular trading hours...
5-10 ticks is NOT that far. How are you setting the stops? Off previous features of the chart plus a tick or two for "safety"?
I believe the rules for GLOBEX futures are that the "dark" side of the order book is indeed invisible to everyone but the computer. So no, no one...
You may be this soft headed, but that doesn't mean everyone else is. You're projecting. I read all sorts of financial related sources, and much...
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