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Stocks and ETFs
August 16th, 2021, 03:20 PM
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Day trading leveraged ETF's
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Market makers are providing liquidity but at...
Market makers are providing liquidity but at Bid/Ask spread that is quite large, typically not at the bid/ask that you see which may be very thin
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Stocks and ETFs
August 16th, 2021, 02:58 PM
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Day trading leveraged ETF's
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Exact, unfortunately I don't think you will be...
Exact, unfortunately I don't think you will be able to get filled at the bid/ask with a market order, with that amount.
If you are trying to arbitrage the 3X vs the actual theoretical value (which I...
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Stocks and ETFs
August 16th, 2021, 02:41 PM
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Day trading leveraged ETF's
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Profitable scalp trading with retail tools is...
Profitable scalp trading with retail tools is indeed very difficult and based on what you describe, I doubt your algo will work live, at least based on my experience of developing/testing live...
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Stocks and ETFs
August 16th, 2021, 02:12 PM
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Day trading leveraged ETF's
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You will probably have to do some real tests to...
You will probably have to do some real tests to know for sure as there are quite a few variables involved:
- liquidity/market depth at the time of making the trade
- amount you trade
- platform...
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Cryptocurrency
May 24th, 2021, 08:52 PM
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How much do you know about Bitcoin?
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1. My advice, do yourself a favor, be curious...
1. My advice, do yourself a favor, be curious and take the time to learn what it is. Read "The Bitcoin Standard", "The Little Bitcoin Book", the Bitcoin Whitepaper, etc
2. My main takeaway: this is...
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NinjaTrader
July 1st, 2020, 09:20 PM
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Ninjatrader 7 indicator programmers?
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Virtuose1
If you don't find any here, you may want to try...
If you don't find any here, you may want to try freelancer dot com. I hired a few programmers there for similar needs.
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Cryptocurrency
June 2nd, 2019, 11:46 AM
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Canadian Bitcoin Fund Receives Status as Mutual Fund Trust
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Virtuose1
There is another option as well in Canada which...
There is another option as well in Canada which is the fund from 3IQ
https://3iq.ca/3iq-global-cryptoasset-fund/
Unfortunatly the MER is very high at 2.95% and not pure Bitcoin (about 50%...
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Platforms and Indicators
February 15th, 2019, 02:16 PM
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IBC Alpha to avoid TWS daily shutdown
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IBC Alpha to avoid TWS daily shutdown
I am looking at a way to avoid to resart TWS everyday (i.e.: connected to NinjaTrader for autotrading) and just come across IBC Alpha, an tool available on GitHub.
Anyone has experience using it ?...
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Traders Hideout
July 29th, 2018, 09:47 AM
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Best alternative to NinjaTrader ?
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Virtuose1
Thanks Xiaosi. Based on everything I read and...
Thanks Xiaosi. Based on everything I read and heard so far, it seems that indeed Sierra is the way to go. I’ll have run both in parallel the time I get use to it and then will happily drop NT....
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Platforms and Indicators
July 28th, 2018, 09:08 PM
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Buttontrader
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Buttontrader
Fat Tails do you know if this is still the case, IB providing inaccurate volume data, even for 1min bar ?
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Platforms and Indicators
July 28th, 2018, 11:57 AM
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TradeStation or NinjaTrader?
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Virtuose1
So which one would you recommend then? After...
So which one would you recommend then?
After about 10 years with NT, I’m in the camp of thinking to switch from NT to something else...
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Traders Hideout
July 27th, 2018, 05:57 PM
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Best alternative to NinjaTrader ?
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Virtuose1
Thanks RLSStreet. I had a look at their website....
Thanks RLSStreet. I had a look at their website. The features seems to be quite interesting but how robust is the overall platform ? I didn’t want to be the one debugging NT8 so I won’t go to the...
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Traders Hideout
July 27th, 2018, 05:54 PM
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Best alternative to NinjaTrader ?
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Virtuose1
Many thanks TraderDoc. I sent an email to...
Many thanks TraderDoc. I sent an email to TradeStation to see what are the options for Canadian but I think you’re right and it is now possible to only use their trading platform which seems a great...
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Traders Hideout
July 27th, 2018, 05:52 PM
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Best alternative to NinjaTrader ?
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Virtuose1
Many thanks Bob. I did my undergrad in Computer...
Many thanks Bob. I did my undergrad in Computer Sciences years ago but I’m a terrible programmer ;-). I managed to learn NT and I’ll definitely have a look at Sierra.
Sent from my iPhone...
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Traders Hideout
July 27th, 2018, 12:14 PM
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Best alternative to NinjaTrader ?
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Virtuose1
Thanks. I'll have a look again but it was not...
Thanks. I'll have a look again but it was not possible for Canadian to open an account with them last time I checked. Do you know if it is possible to use just use their trading platform without...
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Traders Hideout
July 26th, 2018, 10:06 PM
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Best alternative to NinjaTrader ?
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Virtuose1
Best alternative to NinjaTrader ?
After many years using NinjaTrader 7 for my automated day trading (with a Kinetick data feed, trading on Interactive Brokers), I'm seriously thinking about switching all my algos from NT to another...
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Traders Hideout
April 18th, 2018, 11:15 PM
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Flash proof stop limit orders
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Virtuose1
These are awesome insights Ian, many thanks.
These are awesome insights Ian, many thanks.
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Traders Hideout
April 18th, 2018, 04:20 PM
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Flash proof stop limit orders
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Virtuose1
Thanks a lot for taking the time to provide your...
Thanks a lot for taking the time to provide your answer Ian, truly appreciated.
The stop-limit orders that I use are custom developed in NT. The sell order is triggered once the max daily loss %...
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Traders Hideout
April 17th, 2018, 06:58 PM
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Flash proof stop limit orders
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Virtuose1
Flash proof stop limit orders
The following article does a great job at setting the context of my question: https://sixfigureinvesting.com/2012/10/needed-a-way-to-flash-proof-your-stop-limit-orders/
I'd be interested to get...
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Traders Hideout
September 17th, 2017, 09:59 AM
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Big computer setup need to the next step?
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Virtuose1
For automated day trading (tick data, etc),...
For automated day trading (tick data, etc), simply a good reliable laptop with a high speed internet connection is sufficient. I currently use a Dell XPS15-9560 with i7 processor, 16GB Ram, SSD,...
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Traders Hideout
June 7th, 2017, 08:50 PM
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Predicting algos that will be successful with the tail ratio
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Virtuose1
Predicting algos that will be successful with the tail ratio
Nice article which describes how the tail ratio (and other criteria) can help assess the likelihood of future success of trading algos: ...
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NinjaTrader
December 23rd, 2016, 11:54 AM
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NT7 problem
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Virtuose1
I'm not overly excited that at some point I'll...
I'm not overly excited that at some point I'll have to convert my indicators and strategies but there is no need to panic as clearly NT is making this transition quite smoothly to provide enough time...
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Psychology and Money Management
March 26th, 2016, 12:27 PM
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Got a sharpe of 2.0
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Virtuose1
I only do automated trading and my sharpe ratio...
I only do automated trading and my sharpe ratio over 7 years is above 1 but below 2 (and improving every year) and still I'm satisfied with the results as the returns have been positives every year,...
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Stocks and ETFs
March 24th, 2016, 10:14 PM
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trading management
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Virtuose1
I'd suggest that the important question should...
I'd suggest that the important question should rather be how to protect capital. Stop loss should only be one of the 20+ ways to do so, and in my views, one of the least effective. Better ways would...
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Traders Hideout
March 4th, 2016, 09:45 PM
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Sortino ratio ?
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3,018
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Virtuose1
Benchmarks
For anyone interested in these kind of metrics, attached are some benchmarks. How does it compare with your trading results over the last year ? Over multiple years ? (again if you use Interactive...
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