I don't think that trend is actually all that well-defined in classical technical analysis (TA), other than being the general direction of a...
Of course. But you're taking what I said out of context. Commodity_Trader implied that compounding returns had something to do with being able...
Not to sound argumentative, but I think I was the one that implied that 20% returns are possible, in response to your comment about Warren...
No, it is not possible. Name one trader who has consistently doubled his/her money every year? Your mention of Warren Buffett is incorrect. His...
This is a good point that is often overlooked. I just wanted to point out some additional information though, because once you consider everything...
I think the first paragraph of my prior post came out wrong. Some business or economics problems of course involve serious number crunching work,...
Not to sound offensive, but I am not sure that problems in business or economics qualify as "serious number crunching work", which is the point of...
I think the title for this thread should have been along the lines of why Linux/Unix environments are ignored, instead of Macs. In any case, as...
As you have seen firsthand, there is a very real issue of limit orders being filled. The standard way of handling this in backtesting is to set an...
IB is still snapshot (either 1s or 5s, I think), so you get condensed ticks. Is this a problem for forex? Maybe, but probably not. I think that...
For currencies, I would recommend that you use your broker's data. If your broker isn't a true ECN, the behavior of the data at the fine-grain...
I have built hundreds (if not thousands) of trading systems, some of them profitable, and concur that simply trying to build a trading system...
I am not sure if there is a source of free intraday data that goes back that far. There may be, but I am just not aware of one. There are a...
I don't really see R alone as suitable for automated trading. There are a ton of useful statistical, etc. functions (to analyze data), but to try...
Try: http://eoddata.com/symbols.aspx That will give you currently listed symbols though. If you only want 2013 symbols, you will have to...
It just occurred to me that what you meant by range is probably the max. of your measured data minus the min., and not something like the true...
It is not entirely clear on what you are trying to measure. Standard deviation is typically used to measure confidence (and report errors, etc.)...
What you are attempting to do is not entirely clear, but it sounds like you are trying to solve an optimization problem. If this is the case, a...
Yes, social trading for stocks does exist. For example, StockTwits. Perhaps a better question though is whether social trading is a worthwhile...
IB probably (but not necessarily) does have the lowest commissions. This will depend on more details than just "equities" (trade sizes, etc.). You...
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