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Trading Journals
June 6th, 2014, 12:41 PM
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QPAS: Open Source Trading Journal w/ Performance, Risk, and Execution Analytics
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imPairsonator
QPAS: Open Source Trading Journal w/ Performance, Risk, and Execution Analytics
Hey futures.io (formerly BMT), long time no see! Today I open sourced a piece of software I think will be useful for a lot of people here so I thought I'd drop in...
When I was first starting out...
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Brokers
February 7th, 2013, 10:07 AM
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IB Stop Order Not Triggered. Is this possible?
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imPairsonator
"opening print" != "the exchange opening" Of...
"opening print" != "the exchange opening"
Of course the exchange opened at the right time. The stop is triggered on a trade, not by the bid/ask.
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Psychology and Money Management
January 23rd, 2013, 07:52 PM
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Webinar: Ernest Chan on Capital Allocation and Risk Management (Kelly)
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imPairsonator
The problem isn't the estimate of the expected...
The problem isn't the estimate of the expected payoff, it's the assumption of normalcy. Financial return series tend to have far heavier tails than the normal distribution implies. While "half" isn't...
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Stocks and ETFs
December 2nd, 2012, 10:40 AM
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IB D-Quote Orders
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imPairsonator
IB D-Quote Orders
Has anyone used D-quote orders? The idea seems to be that you get to participate in the closing auction through a floor broker, with the advantage being that you are not restricted in sending...
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MultiCharts
November 16th, 2012, 03:33 PM
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MC 8.5 beta 1 was released
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imPairsonator
I wonder when they plan on releasing a stable...
I wonder when they plan on releasing a stable version of 8.1...
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Feedback and Announcements
October 28th, 2012, 02:30 PM
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Big Mike's Best of Trading 2012
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imPairsonator
Best Trading Book: Hedge Fund Market Wizards by...
Best Trading Book: Hedge Fund Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
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Traders Hideout
October 20th, 2012, 08:01 PM
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Market makers cry
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imPairsonator
They're just pissed that their cartel isn't...
They're just pissed that their cartel isn't raking in free money any more.
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Brokers
October 19th, 2012, 11:35 AM
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IB and the Ability to Borrow Stock for Short Selling
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imPairsonator
Why not just go long one of the inverse ETFs?
Why not just go long one of the inverse ETFs?
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Stocks and ETFs
October 17th, 2012, 10:04 PM
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ETF vs Index Fund
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imPairsonator
Typically smaller tracking error (especially vs...
Typically smaller tracking error (especially vs smaller ETFs which have to resort to shortcuts in their index replication strategies), and depending on your broker and the funds you're buying you can...
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Platforms and Indicators
October 17th, 2012, 08:16 PM
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IB Gateway stuck on "Initializing environment"
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imPairsonator
They put out a new update, it fixed the gateway...
They put out a new update, it fixed the gateway issue.
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Platforms and Indicators
October 16th, 2012, 08:03 PM
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IB Gateway stuck on "Initializing environment"
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imPairsonator
I was going to post about this, getting the same...
I was going to post about this, getting the same problem. Tried re-installing at a different location, turning off the firewall, etc...nothing helped.
Here's the log:
ED 03:02:36:388...
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Psychology and Money Management
October 11th, 2012, 09:46 PM
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What is a reasonable return
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imPairsonator
Am I the only one who finds these 10%+ (hell,...
Am I the only one who finds these 10%+ (hell, even 3%+) hopes/expectations absurd? I mean...10% monthly will triple your money in a year. The best and luckiest traders Schwager has interviewed didn't...
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Trading Journals
September 26th, 2012, 05:42 PM
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Short term TF trading
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imPairsonator
Could you elaborate on #10 please? Where did you...
Could you elaborate on #10 please? Where did you have your stop and how come you didn't get out earlier? Was it a well-managed trade or do you think you got lucky?
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Trading Journals
September 24th, 2012, 04:47 PM
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Short term TF trading
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imPairsonator
I believe you're looking at this the wrong way. A...
I believe you're looking at this the wrong way. A stop for a single trade is completely different from a stop for a strategy or a trader as a whole. The stop for any one trade will be strategically...
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Traders Hideout
September 14th, 2012, 09:44 AM
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QE3 - The Fed, FOMC, Congress, and Election Year equals... ?
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imPairsonator
The BS is available on their website...
The BS is available on their website (http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_fedsbalancesheet.htm), it's not a privately owned entity (a better word would be "independent"), and the...
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Platforms and Indicators
September 8th, 2012, 10:58 AM
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Trading Platform - "IQBroker"
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imPairsonator
Mixed impressions so far, haven't looked too...
Mixed impressions so far, haven't looked too deeply into it though.
If you look at their twitter (https://twitter.com/iqbroker) they seem to be releasing new versions at very high frequencies.
...
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Platforms and Indicators
September 6th, 2012, 04:38 PM
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Trading Platform - "IQBroker"
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imPairsonator
Has anyone used this? Just discovered it and on...
Has anyone used this? Just discovered it and on paper it looks very interesting...would love to hear some opinions.
C# support
Portfolio-level backtesting & live (automated?) strategy control...
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MultiCharts
September 6th, 2012, 04:13 PM
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Multicharts with .Net
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66,849
Posted By
imPairsonator
You should be able to add ASCII data...go to the...
You should be able to add ASCII data...go to the quote manager, Instrument -> add symbol -> manually. After you've added it, right click it -> import data -> ASCII.
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Tech Support
August 22nd, 2012, 09:54 PM
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DDE links crash excel
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imPairsonator
Fixed by two re-installs of everything and a...
Fixed by two re-installs of everything and a bunch of restarts. No clue what was wrong.
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Tech Support
August 22nd, 2012, 01:05 PM
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DDE links crash excel
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imPairsonator
DDE links crash excel
So I recently upgraded to Windows 7 and Office 2010 and I've run into a really annoying issue: whenever I try to open a DDE link (either to TWS or IQfeed) excel just crashes. Apparently I'm not the...
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Traders Hideout
August 21st, 2012, 07:53 AM
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Arbitrage
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7,671
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imPairsonator
I've read both of those and unfortunately both...
I've read both of those and unfortunately both are severely lacking. They cover the basic ideas (which are essentially trivial) in a long-winded way but then completely ignore implementation issues...
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Traders Hideout
August 20th, 2012, 07:06 PM
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Arbitrage
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7,671
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imPairsonator
I'm not sure, never did any sports betting. I...
I'm not sure, never did any sports betting. I actually think it's illegal because the government is supposed to have a monopoly on betting, but there's really no way for them to enforce it.
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Traders Hideout
August 20th, 2012, 06:36 PM
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Arbitrage
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7,671
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imPairsonator
Pure arbitrage is completely out of the reach of...
Pure arbitrage is completely out of the reach of the retail trader. It comes in many forms...ETF price getting too far away from NAV, pricing differences between stocks listed on different exchanges,...
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MultiCharts
August 10th, 2012, 10:44 AM
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141
Multicharts with .Net
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66,849
Posted By
imPairsonator
So has anyone started using MC .NET actively? How...
So has anyone started using MC .NET actively? How are all the new C# capabilities? That DOM on the chart demo looked pretty sweet...
Also, how about a "Want your MC .NET indicator created, free?"...
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MultiCharts
August 8th, 2012, 08:27 AM
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6
How to scroll UP and DOWN on chart in MultiCharts?
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2,052
Posted By
imPairsonator
Hold ctrl then click and drag the y axis.
Hold ctrl then click and drag the y axis.
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