Recent content by Simon

I don't find the speaking clock necessary to give me that urge.

Apologies if I'm duplicating, (I ain't readin' sixty odd pages) but more immediate concerns & pressures outside of trading? I believe I had finally got to the point of actually making some real financial progress when my little world was turned upside down, resulting in the trading 'pot' being...

Thanks Bluewave & Aarie, I'll have a further fiddle later.

Where do I start? Sluggish, recurrent bad things that ad-aware & Spybot cannot remove, things generally not working properly, etc., etc. And it won't boot from the hard disk, at all. Any ideas?

After many pointless attempts to fix my comp & many hours wasted trying, it seems that my machine has become so infected & full of sh!t that a reformat is (probably?) the only way of returning it to satisfactory working order. Unfortunately, after changing the boot sequence/method in BIOS, the...

How's that relevant to whether the training was up to scratch?

Can volume actually be used with any real degree of accuracy on UK stocks? I seem to remember a discussion on these boards a while back in which it was stated that if a trade was being 'worked', it did not have to be disclosed until complete. Obviously less of an issue with EOD data, as opposed...

True, but Refco do not offer an SB product, do they?

Currently short from 238. Primary target 230, secondary 215.

Does the problem lie with Sierra or the feed you are using, presumably myTrack? If you cannot solve the problem with a new datafeed, aside from long-windedly deducting current volume from previous, the only option may be to ditch Sierra & utilise another package.

Indeed, why would an SB co. increase it's admin costs with no obligation or reward?

Cash or futures? I would assume futures data would be readily available through your data feed for any applicable period. A crude way of, presumably, calculating the cash volume would be to add together the volume for all constituents of the index for whatever period you desire & adjust accordingly.

This is something that struck me recently, you can minimise your risk exposure by trading the equivalent of a single share using CFD's, as opposed to a minimum of 100 shares with most SB co's, great for testing a new strategy on a limited budget. Obviously you're still liable to CGT, but this is...

No problem.

Sorry Paul, I thought it was quite obvious in my earlier post where I stated: ' I posted my thoughts, on the training I had with Mr. C last year, somewhere on these boards, might be of some use, albeit probably limited, if you can track it down.' Obviously not though. In future I'll try not to...