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- Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:51 pm
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Costly Robobroker Errors
- Replies: 21
- Views: 29440
- Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:02 am
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Costly Robobroker Errors
- Replies: 21
- Views: 29440
I have tested for fixed dates quite a lot in the past. It would have been absolutely no d**n problem for me what method the broker chose - he suggested OI, not me. I was relying on his diligence and expertise to keep me out of trouble. In my case I have been able to satisfy myself that in the longer...
- Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:37 am
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Private Traders' Forum
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4876
Private Traders' Forum
There is a good case for a group of like-minded traders to get together and to operate a totally independent private forum for systems traders where full and frank discussions can occur without embarrassing our host. We have already seen how "he who must not been named" prevented the free ...
- Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:02 pm
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Costly Robobroker Errors
- Replies: 21
- Views: 29440
Costly Robobroker Errors
On another thread I warned of the frustrations of using a systems assist broker. http://www.tradingblox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3037&highlight= As a result of my robobroker entering all contract months into CSI UA for Crude (instead of HMUZ as instructed) a false signal was taken. A loss was o...
- Fri May 26, 2006 2:41 am
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: who gets what?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17024
- Thu May 25, 2006 4:24 pm
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Rolling on Open Interest
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3894
- Thu May 25, 2006 1:33 pm
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Rolling on Open Interest
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3894
Rolling on Open Interest
I had hitherto made an assumption about how a systems assist broker handles rolls on Open Interest. I had assumed that when a broker rolled, he waited for a signal from CSI and looked at CSI UA to see which contract he should roll into. Certainly, the Order Generation facility of TB will follow CSI ...
- Tue May 23, 2006 3:23 am
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: who gets what?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17024
- Mon May 22, 2006 6:16 pm
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Futures Market Data Pitfalls - Newbies Beware
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15266
- Sun May 14, 2006 11:28 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: contango/backwardation
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16317
- Sat May 13, 2006 4:24 am
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: An example of compound growth (Exponential)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7986
- Sat May 13, 2006 3:58 am
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: people on this forum were rude and are fake traders
- Replies: 34
- Views: 38481
- Fri May 12, 2006 6:24 pm
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: people on this forum were rude and are fake traders
- Replies: 34
- Views: 38481
Here is another taste of how these syndicates tended to operate. Whether you would call this gearing, leverage, borrowing - I don't know. Many of the early operators in the US started 25 years ago on a shoestring. They would deposit $20,000 (or some small amount) with a broker who would settle their...
- Fri May 12, 2006 5:28 pm
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: people on this forum were rude and are fake traders
- Replies: 34
- Views: 38481
James Bond agreed to buy USD 5,000,000 worth of stock when his net worth was a small fraction of that. As financiers, in the normal course of events, we would have lent the amount to take the stock............had he been authorised to take the trade. It is not unlike a futures trader who has $100,00...
- Fri May 12, 2006 4:24 pm
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: people on this forum were rude and are fake traders
- Replies: 34
- Views: 38481
Actually, while I'm at it I'll give you a real life example of the dangers of gearing and over enthusiasm. In the 90’s I ran (with some colleagues) around 20 traders whose job it was to hoover up deals of all shapes and sizes. We played junk bonds, sovereign debt, convertible bonds, equities from ...
- Fri May 12, 2006 3:57 pm
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: people on this forum were rude and are fake traders
- Replies: 34
- Views: 38481
Yes, yes, I shouldn't have been mean. But look my friend, there are quite a few of us on this forum who have been speculating in financial markets for a long time. And gearing is something we have all used for many, many years in differing ways and which we all realise is a double edged sword. The r...
- Fri May 12, 2006 10:01 am
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: people on this forum were rude and are fake traders
- Replies: 34
- Views: 38481
- Thu May 11, 2006 3:44 pm
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: people on this forum were rude and are fake traders
- Replies: 34
- Views: 38481
c.f.' post is helpful. I could not fathom the intent either and as to the complexity of the chart ............... Perhaps it was the enormity of the chart which made me think a sales pitch was coming. Not to be rude, but I did find the post a little garbled and confusing and thus passed on, tossing ...
- Thu May 11, 2006 10:03 am
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Futures Market Data Pitfalls - Newbies Beware
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15266
Another little point which occurs on crunching dull detail by dull detail through my settings and my broker's. Your backtesting software updates your stops every single day. That is what your backtesting results are based on. You discover: A) your broker does not update stops EVERY day and B) in som...
- Thu May 11, 2006 6:24 am
- Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
- Topic: people on this forum were rude and are fake traders
- Replies: 34
- Views: 38481
Ah, good man. Thank god for that, and welcome. Switzerland is just fabulous: the mountain flowers are out in the meadows and snow is still adorning the mountain tops. Hardy youths are still putting on their skins and shinning up to the peaks and skiing down again. Sadly I'm not among them........mus...