Recent content by moa

Good tip, thanks!

Thanks ADB, this suits my intrinsically lazy demeanor. Spoke to cyberpowersystem and they seem flexible although I do have some reservations buying from smaller outfits, probably unjustifiably. Will see how it goes. Did you buy your monitors from them too?

Hi, would really appreciate some thoughts on this as my technical knowledge is a bit lacking. Looking for setup with two monitors, expandable to four at a future date should I decide to. Have been checking out Dell who've told me the Vostro series are not expandable in this way. Apparently...

"The single best book for beginners"? The Futures Game: Who Wins, Who Loses and Why, by Teweles and Jones I'm always surprised that this book is mentioned so infrequently. IMHO perhaps it offers too realistic an appraisal of the individual trader's chances, and the amount of knowledge and...

Brian You could have a sift around on this blog Quantitative Trading as the guy uses Matlab for his quantitative strategies. I have just bought his book which has some examples of Matlab coding, mainly for strategy back-testing, however I really couldn't recommend it yet as I haven't finished...

PeteyG I think the efinancialnews job site may have salary guides and some "day in the life" profiles of various roles which you may find helpful. I confess to not really understanding the sales analysis role you've been offered as it didn't sound like front office desk sales, more like fund...

Hi PeteyG Congrats on your offers. Have I understood you correctly: one offer of internship in sales, one of internship as P&L analyst? IMHO depends on a couple of things. If you want to be front office then on face of it the sales internship gets you straight in there to impress and you...

Hi Simon EURUSD (and looks like GBPUSD but I wasn't really following live). I can see gap on 1min charts between 07:56 and 08:00. At this time I'd looked at the quote page and the market was listed as 'closed'.

Gooseman I'm aware of the current volatility and reduced liquidity. However re, for example, this morning there were no quotes that I can see for 5mins and this at least didn't strike me as a particularly volatile period. If I look on FXStreet I can see prices through that whole period so...

Simon Can you explain why we are seeing significant periods where CS is not providing quotes? For example, EURUSD yesterday, 15:30h-15:32h, 15:39h-15:47h, 15:48h-15:50h, 15:57h-16:02h, 21:58h-22:06h; and again this morning 07:56h-08:01h. Thanks

ATHELSTAN IG Index seem to be the only ones to do LME metals so far as I've seen: www.igindex.co.uk I have no idea what they are like though.

Jonny was just browsing the site and saw your post from August. This is a bit late but hopefully you may find it of use for the future. You are perfectly correct in noting the formula for the last trading day however as a speculative trader the relevant date for you is the first notice day...

Hi, I'm looking for some advice on software for developing/testing a technical trading system. I'd be very grateful if someone could offer their opinion on the relative merits of the different software available, particularly in light of my comments below. - the ability to develop for a...