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by futurestrader111
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...
by futurestrader111
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...
by futurestrader111
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...
by futurestrader111
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...
by futurestrader111
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