Traders' Roundtable

Now you might like to make some predictions for the future! :D If we assume that the markets will do what is necessary to confound the maximum number of participants then here’s a possible prediction for the future. Market action will consist of volatile choppy moves. Bull moves that begin slowly...

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From a volume traded point of view, It would appear that more oil traders "monitor" Light Sweet Crude and fewer oil traders "monitor" Brent Crude
(see pic below)

Google can sometimes be very good for these types of questions.
http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws ... +Crude+oil

(Yields 36,300 results !!)

Picture, in your mind’s eye, the leaning tower of Pisa. . . . .that’s what my unread book pile looks like.
I will be adding "Dark Pools" to that pile and will be crossing my fingers that my ‘tower’ doesn’t come tumbling down.
Thanks for the tip.

A good read over at zerohedge for those interested in the basics of High frequency trading and the impact these kind of trades may be having on market fills & market movements. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/interview-high-frequency-trader Personally, I have started to employ stop-limit orders to...

re: Hogwarts spell. This cannot be the cause. I know this because I recited the counter spell "Finite Incantatem" three times and then upon checking the Forum the problem was still there. It must be something else. I will attach 2 images below that show what I am seeing . . . . oops! forgo...

****Hmmm, Can't seem to post an image here. This forum section contains no facility to do so**** rhc may want to click the "quote" button to see how this was done -- then close the browser window Thank you moderator, I can see what you have done. I should have more correctly said that I a...

These are very good numbers. Assuming these good numbers stay static, the Kelly Kalculator, found at http://www.albionresearch.com/kelly/default.php ,reckons you should be betting 50%!! of your capital on each trade to guarantee an 18.38% account increase (on average) per trade. (sse image below) To...

US futures (except ICE/Nybot) = US$10/mth (or free if you do $30 commissions) ICE/NYBOT (i.e. softs, USDX etc) = US$75/mth (or free if you are happy with delayed data) EuroLand = prices vary per country (or free if you are happy with delayed data) Liffe commodities = 20Euro/mth (or free if you are h...

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Why do people keep saying that they're "buying futures contracts" when they're just entering into them? It doesn't cost anything to enter them, so they're not really buying anything. Au contraire, fc, you are buying something & it does cast you something. You are buying the control of...

AFJ Garner wrote: How was I to know? With hindsight, what should I have done? What should I have learnt from the exercise? Hmmm.............

Daniel Kahneman, in his book, “Thinking fast & slowâ€

Nice one!
Thanks sluggo

We allocate our equity over short, medium, and long term systems. I think at a basic level including several timeframes and passively trading them all adds a layer of diversification (if you can afford to stretch yourself over several timeframes One solution that was mentioned was kinda like what J...

Levi,
What is your average trade hold time ?

. . . . . . but wait. How did these short term systems fare prior to 2012 and how did the longer term systems fare prior to 2012 ?? If we refer to the image below which shows the exact same systems but with parameters adjusted to produce short, medium & long term trades. It would appear that si...