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i have just started using ninjatrader and think its an awesome piece of kit. you need to be computer literate but you dont need to be able to programme in c as the system does that for you

no, its trading platform where you can build and backtest mechanical trading systems

just downloaded this and started goingthrough the, mostly video based, tutorial. i'm trying to build a basic mechanical system and i have to say that this really is an excellent piece of kit. aybody else use this in their trading?

sorry, that didnt paste too well. on the left column are buy/sell signals, on the right is price of the underlying. so in the above example i have a sel signal when the price hit 1.1450. lets say i wanted a stop at 200 pips, then easy: if ( current price 200 pips > sell price , buy, 0 ). but...

seems to be the general gyst of what people on this sectionof the forum are saying....in the med/long term at least. but i'm guessing that some people here do have succesful mechanical trading systems, and i'm trying to build a fairly simple one myself. the question is to those of you who have...

thanks John. my spreadsheet looks, broadly, like this: buy/sell price sell 1.145 1.1406 1.1382 1.1382 1.1319 1.1359 1.1309 in the left column i have a new 'sell' signal, in the right i have price. i'm comfortable enough using a conditional formula to establish the cashflow when i...

hi - i'm building a very basic mechanical trading system in excel but need to create a basic trailing stop. i'm sure it can be done using simple IF functions, but i'm feeling a bit slow today. can anybody help thanks in advance

anyone use an SMA trading system with any success? thanks in advance

just stumbled across this. views?

do you guys do any backtesting?

so when you started you just followed the prices, traded without a formalised strategy (i.e. you traded if it felt right), and made money?

to those who have acheived a degree of success with their trading: can you tell me what has changed about your style since your first started? what are you doing differently now? what were you doing wrong when you began? is it largely down to discipline and hard work as Way of the Turtle might...

i'm starting too and have been doing a lot of reading to try to establish a strategy. read Technical Analysis Simplified and Way of The Turtle. also, read everything you can on this forum as it is excellent if you cant wait to get stuck in , open up a demo account which will give you (eg) a...

you could price it as an option where you simultaneously buy a bond and sell an FRN as this would give you the same cashflows. but personally i think this approach is unnecesary and cumbersome. Devvy is correct, aswap is a swap and not a bond. in terms of pricing, really not sure which model is...

hahahaha - just seen the old fart buy instead of sell in fairness to him i have bought, on behalf of a client, EURUSD 880,000,000......when they should have sold oops FAOD - their fault