Some preliminary technical requirements. — I also realized I'd need to outline some technical requirements so I don't spend time redoing work or waste my efforts on redundant things. Plus, I wanted an environment where I could express new ...

Jack's Automated System Development Journal

First steps of a long journey. — With a good testing environment in place, we can start really digging into the fun stuff: Strategy development. As I said in the first post, I'm not a seasoned automated strategy developer. I have an idea about ...

Jack's Automated System Development Journal

But I had to start somewhere... — I also came to the conclusion that if I wanted to trust the results of my testing, that means striving for the absolute best testing environment possible, and even the best has to be scrutinized. After reading ...

Jack's Automated System Development Journal

Bringing you up to speed. — Around two years ago I started playing with writing my own scripts for trading platforms. It was an excuse to keep sharp with scripting/coding, which I did a bit of back in my IT days. It started with ThinkScript, a ...

Jack's Automated System Development Journal

I love how FF's forum quote cuts off the post of mine you quoted so the last line reads entirely the opposite of what my message was intended to be.

How to avoid conflicts of interest with your broker?

That's not fast scalping, that's price feed latency exploitation. It hardly works on live accounts. Most brokers now have protections against it (like delaying execution and verifying price.) Nearly every broker will stop you from using it once ...

Scalpers favorite broker

LOL... well, I rant a lot about terminology.. it's important, but in the end, an ECN-like broker won't be what makes you profitable. Focus on consistency first, then once you have a style that fits you bets (ie, not what you think you'd like, but ...

How to avoid conflicts of interest with your broker?

Replace "true" with "pure" in my previous post. In other markets, ECN's take up all shapes and sizes, and they are all valid ECNs. (Heck, in US equities, there are ECNs that don't show their book (dark pools, dark liquidity ECNs, etc..,) let alone ...

How to avoid conflicts of interest with your broker?

Yup, got mine last night as well, counting just hours between the bad ticks and when it was resolved. Good stuff.

Pepperstone Forex

The refresh your chart part? Or the explanation of the bad quote from DB? If it's refreshing your chart, right click on the chart itself and go to refresh. Should that not clear the bad tick, I just go into history manager, find the bad bars, and ...

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Not for nothing, but "ECN" is any electronic network used for exchange. This recent trend with being "true" has been a bunch of marketing spin. At least some brokers put forward that they are "ECN-like", that's honest. Most who trumpet the "True ...

How to avoid conflicts of interest with your broker?

They've always made good on such things in the past for me. Usually pretty quickly too (within a day or so of me bringing it up I'd see corrections made to my account, when I've had other brokers take two weeks just to get some excuse and no ...

Pepperstone Forex

Anyone affected: email [email protected] with the details and screen shots. They will correct it. :|

Pepperstone Forex

Yes, bad ticks hit a few AUD pairs. It smoked an order of mine, I'm writing support an email now to fix it.

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Yeah, it does suffer from some of the same issues as martingale. All you've done is increase the distance price can move against you in exchange for requiring additional distance price has to move in your favor to become profitable. The big flaw ...

Martingale - the sad truth

This might be interesting for some of you: url Shows limit and stop limit orders by % of total (instead of a volume amount,) for Oanda's client base. There's a few ECN's or ECN-like shops that show "depth" but that's not quite the same as an order ...

Limit order book?

All that means is, if you used a credit card to fund within the past 60 days, you must withdrawal to that credit card if you want to take money out (up to the amount you initially deposited from that card.) This is an international standard to help ...

Pepperstone Forex

Oh, I thought it was posted somewhere else first then moved here... and I didn't see anything commercial about it. Mm..

Martingale - the sad truth

We were actually just talking about this: It appears as a 'refund' or credit on your account when it posts (usually a few business days, but it starts as a pending transaction within a day.) Hope that helps..

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