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- Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:46 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Stop order execution
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3292
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:18 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Stop order execution
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3292
Stop order execution
Ok, I admit it, I've been trading way too long. 30 years or so in stocks, 22, 23 years in futures. I've not traded (seriously) in stocks for the past 8-9 years or so, only longer term trades, some held for years, some not. I've always used stops, and until today, never came across an issue with a st...
- Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:51 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Testing Results Question
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10998
- Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:15 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Testing Results Question
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10998
- Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:30 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Musings on (worthless) Past Performance
- Replies: 83
- Views: 40363
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 3:23 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Musings on (worthless) Past Performance
- Replies: 83
- Views: 40363
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:21 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Musings on (worthless) Past Performance
- Replies: 83
- Views: 40363
Trading is a dangerous game and none of us are immune to its perils. My accountant told me recently of a copper trader who built up his capital to £160m and lost 40% last year. Reminds me of the story the late Ray Kelly told me years ago about an options trader on the CBOE he knew from the beginni...
- Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:25 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Musings on (worthless) Past Performance
- Replies: 83
- Views: 40363
Past performance can be an outstanding predictor of future success! That success is however in the marketing of said fund/adviser to the latest performance chasing idiots. Suck in the new money in the largest possible quantities in the shortest amount of time possible. Of course we are just entering...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:31 pm
- Forum: Market Psychology
- Topic: Is now the time to take a trading holiday?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12506
Re: Is now the time to take a trading holiday?
Now, the question; What to do with my money if I choose not to trade.? Here in Oz I can get a nice boring ‘safe’ 1 year term deposit at my local friendly bank that pays interest in $AUD of around 5.5% p.a. . . . give half of that to the government in tax and the other half to inflation and I sh...
- Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:59 pm
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Interactive Brokers & Re-hypothecation
- Replies: 19
- Views: 27402
- Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:20 pm
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Interactive Brokers & Re-hypothecation
- Replies: 19
- Views: 27402
- Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:43 am
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Is Modern Portfolio Theory Dead?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 23858
- Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:28 pm
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Is Modern Portfolio Theory Dead?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 23858
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:49 pm
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Preparing for the Demise of the Euro
- Replies: 20
- Views: 22569
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:26 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Robustly Selecting Porfolio to Trade
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3972
Read this thread from the early days of the board before Trading Blox existed and bump it with a reply/question perhaps?
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- Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:50 am
- Forum: Money Management
- Topic: Will Notional Funding Now Become the New Standard?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11661
- Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:14 am
- Forum: Trader Psychology
- Topic: (Timely) Larry Williams Quote
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6348
while I largely agree with it..... the only thing here is often this can be the final straw for some people and sometimes we need people like your friend who will give up everything for 'justice' If we all just cut our losses and did not chase these 'injustices' then I think the world would be a po...
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:31 am
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Which month do you trade for S&P?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6434
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:44 am
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Which month do you trade for S&P?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6434
- Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:08 am
- Forum: Futures Markets
- Topic: Doing business in the post MFG era
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8794
Getting money into a FCM is generally easy - getting it out is the problem. If anything positive comes from the MFG fiasco is that this might be improved and become standard - the technology seems to be there, but the will does not. I guess I'm just too pessimistic coupled with how this would look ...