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Broker: IQFeed, Ninja, Own C# with API to Trade King and IB
Trading: stocks
Posts: 39 since Jul 2011
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The problem with sharing working code is....
1). I use exception as my driving force... So, if too many folks (I don't know what that number would be)... use my strategy... It no longer works like an exception because it would drive the market when the trigger exists...
If it worked on turn around of top or bottom... then the more people using it would provide a better return...
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
I appreciate mostly the tone and intent of the purpose of this site.
I had no problem signing up as an elite member , just because of your intention.
I have made and lost income in trading. Had the usual experiences, but now
I am focusing on the winning traits needed for consistentcy: detailed journals,
rigorous analysis of daily work, and watching the psychology aspects.
Books inspiring to me are: Trading in the Zone- read many times and learned
something new each time. The Logical Trader also- showing consistency in
one's strategy.
Do not hop from strategy to strategy.
This is a choosing of personal growth, not a quick fix, quick buck industry.
Thanks for the space.
I look forward to positive chat/forums of discussion.
And will be glad to contribute when the time comes.
Hi everyone, It's great to find a forum where traders can help other traders in their quest to become consistantly profitable. I'm looking forward to reading others posts and gaining insight on how others trade. I trade the ES and YM. I have tried every indicator out there and have found the fewer I use the better I do. I use TradeStation as my platform.
First, I like to thank Mike for designing and maintaining such a great Forum, and also thank the great sincere contribution and team work of so many great traders, i.e., Perryg, RJay, Sharky, TheWizard, Fat Tails, Lolu, Aslan, ....
I joined ~ 2 weeks ago and I am like a hungry kid in a candy store, reading and reviewing so many great posts, discussions, and trading systems ... Amazing, encouraging, and very educational for my trading career
About my background, I have been introduced to the market and technical analysis by my direct report in a bio-pharmaceutical industry in California about 6 years ago. As soon as I saw the potential exits in the market, that is Compounding, and so many other advantages vs. other owned-businesses, I started my extensive reading and research in this filed. This was a total shift from my 22 years of higher educational training and career path in bio-medical research. However, with strong scientific research background and modeling experiences, I am glad that life offered me this new direction and opportunity. Also. the more I traded live in the market and gained experiences, the more I appreciated and respected the market. I realized that market is the most honest and sincere friend of mine who is reflecting my true psychology and discipline, the one that was not trained well enough by formal education and the industry and needed to be improved significantly to reach consistency.
Anyway, I was able to develop a few profitable scalping and swing trading systems and reached consistency in trading about 2 years ago. However, being busy with my full-time job and being dependent on its income forced me to focus more on development of semi-automatic trading systems. In these systems, I do not need to worry about the Entry and Exits, but need to give directions and define a proper range to the system, so it only trades during the trends in one direction and avoids narrow ranges. I used initially Tradestation and later Multicharts to develop and test systems using easy language coding, which I learned slowly on my own. I like to translate these to C# in Ninja Trader and combine it with the other great Entry/Exit systems and chart types that I came across in this forum.
I will post these ideas and systems in separate sections and looking forward to working with you and create a win-win situation for all.
I've been day trading the SPY since '94. I trade from 100-500 shares depending on the strength of the setup and try for $100 plus a trail stop. If I lose $100 I stop for the day; my day being from 7-11 CST. I'm interested in trading futures so I'm trying to learn the in and outs. And honestly, after watching what happened to MF Global I'm already having second thoughts.
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