Traders' Roundtable

Are you about to hit us with a sales pitch for something at some stage? Just out of interest?

Believe me the money back guarantee on something like this will be so vague as to be unenforceable.

Congratulations, that is some achievement. I too would benefit from placing my own orders. It would greatly speed my learning curve. The problem I have is backup. Or lack thereof. You may well be a lone individual as I am (?) But I have it in mind from some of your previous posts that you are buildi...

An extremely good point. I have just had a long and very helpful telephone conversation with CSI on this very topic. It may be best if the broker sends the client his portfile.adm file which the client puts somewhere OTHER than in his UA files - IE he avoids overwriting his own settings. I am told t...

You are right in everything you say. I have done precisely the same myself - looked up details on the relevant exchange website, not only for every contract I trade but for every contract I follow. And still, it is easy to make a mistake. I accept that. Look, this is really a subject for a different...

You are not going off topic my friend. The trouble I have had recently makes me very frustrated. I will start a new thread to share my frustration.
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I despair of CSI. I reported to them that the contract size is rupee 100 x the index as specifically confirmed to me by the exchange. The have updated the "Contract Size" column of the factsheet but left point value as 2. Their "Price Format" is 2. So 2 / 0.01 = 200. I am finding...

I do very much agree with Red Rock. I have found it to be so in my own life, albeit only in recent years. I think some of us do need to be TOLD that we can choose - I certainly did. I happen to think this a very profound and important gift - the ability to choose. I have to say though that there are...

I guess what I am saying is that an 84% increase in the value of a stock market index is an enormous gain in just over 14 months...........and you would expect to profit handsomely. In points, the increase was 1,632.30 The index level is similar to that of the DJ Euro Stoxx and the DJ Stoxx. But the...

In the interests of possible diversification I recently took a look at the above contract. I should add that many years ago, the Indian domestic equity market had a horrendous reputation for settlement difficulties - and for this reason I have only ever dealt in foreign depository receipts for India...

As a postscript, I wish I could say that I DID believe in a way to tame trend following so that over the long term I could achieve both a high return and a low drawdown. Then I would devote much more money to it. But I don't think any investment strategy can guarantee that. May be Sluggo (who has, b...

I am sure that many will disagree. It could well be that I am 100% wrong - I have only been at this game a few short years. But viewed as a stand alone investment, in my view it is probably fallacious to believe that drawdowns, in a long term trend following model, can be minimised in any way other ...

What I would also like to know is how people calculate their slippage. It is very clear how to calculate slippage where you have an order at a certain limit. Less so where you have a spread or an MOO order. Let us take MOO. CSI gives you an opening price which it gets from the exchange. That is the ...

I suspect that one does have to listen to the pontificators or at least to the general drift that the pontificating is taking. Fashions take hold in the fund management industry as much as in any other. And if you are in the thankless business of getting blood out of a stone by raising institutional...

Damian Don't be so mean: I love Kiwis, also Aussies. Used to have lovely antipodean nannies and au pairs when I was a kid! Dinky. Anyway, what about Lord of the Rings, at least you must admit its a glorious country. Chortle. Yes, take your point and I am looking at 1 year plus trades for winners als...

Hmm, that's encouraging: its even more illiquid than the NZ $. Perhaps I'm looking to be talked out of it. Mind you, speaking of someone who only recently noticed the nosedive in volume on MB and thus gave it up, I don't know quite why I'm feeling so cautious. I note that one or two of the better kn...

Any one out there trading these rather illiquid contracts on the CME? They seem to offer useful diversification..........hmmm, perhaps better avoided.

In trend following systems designed to hook on and hang on to long secular trends, I prefer not to pay too much attention to standard deviation or semi deviation of returns when it comes to deciding between taking profits or letting full position size run to the bitter end. And in my systems and my ...

Hmm, internet "security" and the lack thereof is very, very scary. I keep getting spoof e-mails from Pay Pal leading me to a spoof site where I am asked to record my account details for checking! Yup, sure, thanks, I'll do the jokes. Its one of those subjects I keep meaning to research - h...

Agreed and thank you. I'm adding Canola to my portfolio for diversification.