Recent content by azwhaley

I find Alpari pretty good - solid platform, decent execution and competitive spreads.

So you've only made 437 pips on EURUSD in an entire year ! I average that most months :- http://www.zulutrade.com/TradeHistoryIndividual.aspx?pid=20470 Considering the numbers of pairs you're trading your results aren't that good - check out some of the signal providers on Collective2, there...

I'd recommend that you ditch NN's and look at GP instead. I've found several consistently profitable strategies using GP although it certainly wasn't easy.

As with most things these days, programming is being dumbed down so you'll find that C# is rapidly gaining popularity. It's far easier to use than C/C++ and you'll find more and more jobs asking for it so I would go that route personally. What you will find though is that C# is only...

I'm stuck to my chair !

Don't you have to pay £30 to use their pro/advanced charts ? Is there such a thing as an EA for the IG platform then ? I'm getting MetaTrader setup with Alpari for auto-scalping, but I'd rather not pay 18% CGT if I could do the same thing through IG. I could write a screen scraper to do it...

Are you watching Barclays 3.86 -> 3.79 so far today - would have made a nice short. I'just ridden it up from 3.55 to 3.80. It's a good one because it bounces around in a range so get in at when at 3.60 and out at 3.80 and repeat in a week or two. The indexes are just too random for me - had my...

You mean it was a trick ! I thought that method of averaging everyone's opinion actually worked. I've got all my friends and family giving me predictions for share prices tomorrow and I'm busy averaging them out here ! Funny thing is we actually tried the averaging method on Saturday's lottery...

So Practically, for a UK residence you need to pay 18% of the net gain in the financial year minus the individual allowance of £10,100 ? So if I make 1,000 trades between 5th April 2009 and 5th April 2010 and I start with £500 and end up with £20,000 (I'm optimistic) I'll owe 0.18 * (19,500 -...

I've a shot at it through spread betting but lost so far due to my stops being triggered although I got the general trend right. What are you using for entry / exit signals and what sort of levels are you setting your stops at ? Thanks

Also forgot to say, although I haven't got this for yet I will autotrade by taking the winning algorithms and recoding these as a Metatrader EA - I have an MQL framework ready to plug them in. This will allow me to then confirm the results by backtesting in MT and then forward test in a demo...

Hi Paula, l've written my own trading simulator that works with historic data. The genetic algorithms are then evaluated in the simulator as their fitness function. This blog post has more details. regards Andrew

Caspian, those results look very impressive. Do you care to give us an insight into the strategy that your EA is using ? I've tried MACD, CCI, RSI without any success so far.

At the risk of being flamed, I think it is nonsense to say that all EA's lose money. Probably the majority do just as the majority of human traders do. It's unfortunate that there is so much spam and obvious dishonest promotion of these get-rich-quick EA's around so it is very difficult to get...

OK thanks - can you point me to the website ?