Traders' Roundtable

Yes I have just finished the Weissman book which I read after the Pardo one. I would suggest they are both good but perhaps the Weissman one was slightly better. I will have to re-read them to make a better judgment as I certainly found that re-reading WOTT revealed things I had missed first time ar...

Hi Matt,

You are welcome. Once you have TB I am sure you wont be disappointed!

BTW get hold of "Way of The Turtle" as well, that should get you started in back testing techniques. A truly excellent book.

Ahh,

That'll be because it is in the TB "support" area which you can't access unless you are a TB customer (I think). Maybe if you email Tim he might be able to send you a link just for that thread.

Matt,

Have a look at this thread regarding spreadbetting:

viewtopic.php?t=4137&highlight=spreadbetting

Matt, I am a Sharescope user and it is easy to export data for TB: *First create an export folder on you PC, "SS Export" for example. *Set the export options as shown in the first screen shot below. *Then select the type of data you want to export (excel) and where you wish to send it (the...

Hi Corvus, I have found it difficult sometimes to learn TB and to test "correctly". After all I guess most of us are essentially self-taught in this field, clearly starting from different levels of trading experience and so on. I would suggest, for further reading, two of the books mention...

I am in the process of upgrading from 2.1 to the 2.2 version of TB. Having re-read some parts of WOT, I am drawn to the more "robust" measurements of RAR% etc as described in the book. My question is therefore: has anybody who has used this metric found it to be as useful as it appears? In...

Slightly off topic but CSI withdrew 2.10.5 yesterday because of "issues" (their words). The data between 2.9.3 and 2.10.5 was different for some futures at various points in time going back as far as 1984 possibly because of "discrepancies in the back adjuster". Every version of ...

I looked at FutureSource graphs and selected "line" from the option. Is this what you were after?

Hi Stephen, Thanks for your comments. I agree with you 100% that the whole procedure is indeed quite simple. My take is to use the power of TB to build a good system in the first place. I normally test with a far larger account size that I actually have (1mil. for example) because I want all signals...

Thanks for your interest in my simple excel spreadsheet I will post it here over the weekend

Hi Raphael, Sorry for the delay in replying. You have asked a lot of questions so I will try to answer as best I can! For the actual mechanics of SB, I suggest you look at these links and read the downloadable dealing guides: www.cityindex.co.uk www.finspreads.com (Yes you can roll contracts in the ...

Hi Raphael,

Will PM you in the next couple of days. Bit busy at the mo.

Probably the most important factor with SB companies is to use at least two if not three at the same time. That way you can shop around for the best spread for each instrument-they can and do vary tremendously. The main players remain CityIndex, Finspreads (owned by CityIndex), IG Index and CMC Mark...

Hi immiejay, To answer your questions: I leave the leverage set to 1. All I am doing is "translating" the number of contracts into, in my case, £/point. I simply use the entry and stop price from TB which is entered into the excel sheet that I will shortly be pm-ing to you. SB companies v...

immiejay, I use spreadbetting for my trades. The way I tackle the bet sizing is by using a simple excel spreadsheet to work out the £/point equivalent to the number of contracts. All I do is put in the entry and stop levels then the number of contracts traded is calculated (fixed fractional). This ...

I had been (no pun intended) long in SN07 and rolled into the November contract on the 18th June at a price around 891. Then four days later got promptly stopped out, losing most of the gains from the previous 2 weeks. Having seen todays action reminds me of why trading can be so difficult. I wonder...

HI RR, I "upgraded" to 2.10.2 yesterday on my backup machine. It works fine and TB is back to normal. However UA appears much the same from the outside, still looks very "old fashioned" compared to other software and takes an age to update. I only use it for the data as scrolling...

Hi AFJ,

I had a similar problem with 2.10.1 which rendered TB un-useable. I notice that CSI have offered 2.10.2 for download, withdrawing 2.10.1 and 2.9.4.

Let's hope this version, which I am downloading now, works better!

Still hanging in with my long trade, little bit of a pull back but am keeping with it!