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June 20th, 2022, 09:53 AM
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Your best bet if you are a discretionary trader...
Your best bet if you are a discretionary trader is this: Use one of the "estimated place in the queue" tools from your favorite software. NinjaTrader has one, I think Sierra and maybe a few others...
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June 20th, 2022, 09:43 AM
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Sorry for the delay responding to this. I...
Sorry for the delay responding to this. I haven't been keeping up with my old email notifications from Futures.IO. Here is an old NT forum post I started like 7 years ago that gets into this in...
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March 20th, 2022, 09:02 PM
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There are 3 data feeds in NinjaTrader, and they...
There are 3 data feeds in NinjaTrader, and they will go out of sync often. Depending on what you are trying to do you may see some weird stuff.
For modeling purposes, stay away from the OnBarUpdate...
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December 6th, 2020, 10:36 PM
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Good question, I've tried the NQ and YM before. ...
Good question, I've tried the NQ and YM before. They are both a bit thinner than the ES. The concepts are largely the same but there are more gaps in the data with multiple price levels getting...
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July 13th, 2020, 07:28 PM
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I figured everything out that I presented in this...
I figured everything out that I presented in this thread on my own just by looking at the data. I am a data scientist among other things by trade, so building this type of taxonomy and analyzing the...
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November 22nd, 2019, 11:23 AM
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More or less. The extraction program uses the...
More or less. The extraction program uses the level 1, and level 2 feeds in a specific sequencing way. What I dumped into excel to show the raw data was just to illustrate how it works at a high...
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November 22nd, 2019, 11:20 AM
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Hi Birdyalex, I appreciate and respect the...
Hi Birdyalex,
I appreciate and respect the reconciliation work you put in. You definitely understand this way better than most people.
To your question about the anomalies. As you can imagine...
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November 19th, 2019, 10:52 PM
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In the simplest form possible, trading is...
In the simplest form possible, trading is essentially betting which way the market will go. So what is your bet? Why are you putting money on red or black? At some point you have to form a basis...
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November 12th, 2019, 11:37 PM
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Hi LastDino, Thanks for taking an interest. ...
Hi LastDino,
Thanks for taking an interest. To your questions:
1. I won't say that resting volume analysis has no informational value at all, but I can tell you that the edges that I have...
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November 11th, 2019, 10:41 PM
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Again thanks for taking an interest in this. The...
Again thanks for taking an interest in this. The taxonomy pretty much follows this:
Every price level has one side starting with resting volume that has been accumulating on resting price levels....
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October 25th, 2019, 09:35 AM
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Hi Torr, Thanks for taking an interest. The...
Hi Torr,
Thanks for taking an interest. The level 1 and level 2 data feed are not perfectly in sync with the program that I used (NinjaTrader). So there are some gaps and data mismatches here...
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October 6th, 2019, 01:59 PM
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Hi Ludo, I have used gradient boosting as...
Hi Ludo,
I have used gradient boosting as part of my day job before, but I haven't really given it a go on futures data before.
I have no doubts that with a decent training data set, I could get...
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September 13th, 2019, 10:42 PM
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Hi quants00, I am always happy to share and help...
Hi quants00, I am always happy to share and help if possible. If you have any specific questions, let me know and I will be glad to give you some feedback.
But i will always defer to artemiso...
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September 11th, 2019, 11:04 PM
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You might have a shot with rithmic's diamond API,...
You might have a shot with rithmic's diamond API, but that is about the only one on the market (in terms of retail-ish).
The edge is solid, you can test it over any day, any time of day, etc, and...
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April 7th, 2019, 10:18 PM
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As a follow up to Post 9 on fill rates
Following up on my last post: Here is the actual analysis and raw data.
I won't provide a long winded explanation of the technical aspects of the analysis. Everything is in excel and you can...
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March 11th, 2019, 10:41 PM
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The Paradox of Toxic Fills and Understanding Limit Orders under the Hood
Fair Warning: This is the part where the Red Pill comes in. If you are pursing a scalping, Order flow related strategy, aiming for 1 to 2 ticks, modeling a strategy that heavily relies on limit...
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March 2nd, 2019, 12:49 PM
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The way the market moves and clears levels can be...
The way the market moves and clears levels can be visualized like this: https://nexusfi.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=263511
Buy limit orders can only be placed on or south of the current best...
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February 27th, 2019, 01:54 PM
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Analysis # 1
Backstory: There is so much misinformation out there regarding volume / order related trading methods. I have heard these described as volume profile, order imbalance, DOM, Level 2, Order Flow, and...
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February 26th, 2019, 04:19 PM
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Market Microstructures - The Red Pill
Overview:
There is a ton of misinformation out there about the usefulness and utility of a lot of trading concepts. A recent poll on here is showing that there is more interest on the topics of...
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