Recent content by Vandalay

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    Automated Spread Betting

    I was... but moved away from it a few years back. Still has been a fun little project to build up over the past 6 months. Haven't got it to calculate any TA indicators as yet but I think that could be done relatively easily from where I am right now.
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    Automated Spread Betting

    IG, hoping to try it on other brokers soon, but as more of them move to full java interfaces it becomes more difficult. With this broker I have had to resort to using an older browser version. Incidentally could anyone tell me of any other brokers which have simple interface that you could...
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    Automated Spread Betting

    Yes this can be done via Excel. I've spent the last few months building a macro which will interact with a broker interface, copy and paste prices into excel to work out when to trade etc. It executes, monitors and exits trades also. It's hard to do, and it doesn't work with brokers with Java...
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    can you trade Binaries / Fixed Odds for a full time living: disscussion

    I think binaries are perhaps one of the best ways to trade for a living, IF it is used to manage risk correctly. I don't use binaries to trade on pullbacks etc as they are too unpredictable and leave you pretty open. The beauty of the instrument is the predictability of it. I based my basic...
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    binary strategy

    This is roughly the strategy I have been working on for the past 6 months, with good success. I recorded prices on various binary markets on IG over a couple of months to work out the optimum strategy by building an algorithm in Excel. For FTSE it's something in the region of entering at...
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    5 minute binaries

    I've just sat and watched the 5 minute binaries on IG several times, the volatility is ridiculous. How could you possibly apply a strategy to this?
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