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- Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:09 am
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: CBOT BLOWS IT!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7123
Mike, You will notice they published this for their customers AFTER the problem!! If all their customers knew about it why would they have had to publish a special report explaining it AFTER the event? During the exact meltdown moment several of the worlds largest FCM's that I am aware of and was in...
- Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:10 pm
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: CBOT BLOWS IT!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7123
CBOT BLOWS IT!
Many traders were surprised yesterday when trading the mini-silver contract at the CBOT. Why???? Because the CBOT had a rule that said if your stop was surpassed by 3 cents before it was filled that the stop was cancelled!!!!! This is insane, the CBOT is basically saying, “Hey, you already lost to...
- Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:49 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Exit Strategy and Profitability
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14218
Sluggo, How come when I go to www.iasg.com and do countless searches of the professionally managed futures world I never see results that good? Why dont those multibillion dollar traders simply purchase Trading Blox? Seems as though they could double or triple their performance ratios! :roll: What s...
- Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:47 pm
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: New Regulatory Wrinkle for ROBO-BROKERS
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4834
New Regulatory Wrinkle for ROBO-BROKERS
The NFA and CFTC recently met to discuss issues going forward. One of the main areas the CFTC said they are going to focus on is Robo Brokers who are actually operating as unregistered CTAs. It seems some of them are doing more than simply executing systems. In some cases they have been taking discr...
- Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:01 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Cointegration vs correlation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6845
Cointegration vs correlation
I've heard it said that "cointegration" analysis has replaced correlation analysis in many financial communities.
Does somebody have a clear and concise argument for the switch?
How about a software package that does this??
Thanks in advance
FT
Does somebody have a clear and concise argument for the switch?
How about a software package that does this??
Thanks in advance
FT