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- Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:25 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Curve Fitting
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4362
Curve Fitting
Consider the following: When backtesting my long term trend system, I have run individual market tests for all liquid US futures using multiple time frames. Several futures have very low or negative expectancies. These futures have been eliminated from this particular system. I'm curious to see if t...
- Fri May 13, 2011 4:16 pm
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Mac and CSI Data
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2300
Mac and CSI Data
I am currently in the process of converting both laptop and desktop over to Mac. CSI Data tells me that UA may run on Windows 7 supported by Mac with a dual processor. Any tips or software that will allow my conversion to use CSI Data/Ua along with Blox? Thanks. (or should I hang on to my older PC l...
- Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:00 pm
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Price discrepancy
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6224
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:41 pm
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Price discrepancy
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6224
Price discrepancy
I just opened an account with Interactive Brokers. The 2/11/11 closing price for May 2011 Corn on the CBOT was 717 2/8. IB has it quoted at 7.0875 close. Am I missing something?
- Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:06 pm
- Forum: Brokers
- Topic: Backup trading account
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5826
Backup trading account
I just opened a new account with Interactive Brokers. IB suggests to maintain "alternative trading arrangements in the event IB trading system is unavailable". How many traders out there have a "backup" trading account at a different broker in case something like this happens?
- Sun Dec 12, 2010 10:42 am
- Forum: Testing and Simulation
- Topic: Longest Drawdown
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2391
Longest Drawdown
When analyzing long term trend following systems, the shortest length of drawdowns seems to be approximately 16-17 months. Any tips to further shorten this time frame?