Recent content by daveb1

Rossini, Thanks for your suggestions. I would agree that I've been curve fitting by finding the best parameter values over a period of time. However, I'm not clear how I can optimise the system and how that differs from what I've been doing. Could you explain the difference ? I am coming...

Hi, After making small losses spreadbetting on shares and subsequently reading a number of trading books and articles, I began to realise that I needed a totally systematic way of trading. I need to know exactly when to enter a trade, how to size a position and when to exit a trade in order to...

Hi, Does anyone know where I can find the EOD bid-offer spread for FTSE350 shares? As far as I know the EOD OHLC prices given by data suppliers e.g. ADVFN, Yahoo, etc are mid-price and don't take into account the bid-offer spread. I'm writing some software to backtest a system but rather than...

Splitlink Thanks for that. There seem to be a few SB firms who offer 'their quote' & 'market quote' but most state that the quote is 'their price' suggesting a license to move the price through the day to suit them. Would you advise to go with a firm that offers 'market quotes' or do the 'own...

Hi, I'm looking to open a SB account for FTSE350 shares and am wondering if there is any benefit in using a SB firms 'quote price' rather than a 'market price' ? I'd like to work with downloaded data/charts (Sharescope) for calculating entry & stop-loss prices rather than having to use SB...

Hi, I'm looking for a spread betting company which would suit EOD share trading where I can place orders, move stop losses and exit a trade all out of hours. Are all these possible ? Also, are there companies whose OHLC share prices are close to the underlying market price i.e. within a...

Hi, I'm a newbie using Sharescope and displaying 10 & 40 week simple moving averages on a candlestick chart. One thing that is puzzling me is that if I move the cursor left->right on the graph, the moving average figures displayed in the graph legend change on mondays but the actual moving...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try one or two platform demos to get a feel for them plus I'll keep a look out on T2W for various suggestions/do's/dont's. Great forum by the way! Dave

Hi I'm looking to start spread betting on FTSE250 shares and am looking for a spread betting company to open an account with. My head is swimming after reading the various SB company reviews here. It seems people either love or hate a SB company. Can you offer any suggestions as to what I...