Recent content by scotty_dog

I've spent time living in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and now Stockholm. The first and last are easy choices for quality of life. The two in the middle are great to visit - preferrably with wads of cash, an eye for curry and plenty of time for lunch.

I recently came across some elegant thinking on this subject. The source was a highly successful trader, now in his 70s. Rather than seeing trendiness as a single, variable condition, he maintains there are always two trends in the market. Where there is "no clear cut trend", he sees two...

Not Mark Johnson's data, but certainly useful. 10 years of (free) historic data on futures, forex and stocks. http://www.tradingblox.com/tradingblox/free-historical-data.htm

So far none of my trades have gone against me. Hillarious.

I think the two books your friend recommended are excellent choices. Elsewhere on systems, I'm very much looking forward to getting hold of Curtis Faith's new book, Way of the Turtle.

I respect Socrates' primary intention in starting this thread. Amusing how camp it has become, though. Carry On Writing, anyone? http://www.carryonline.com/carryonline/Downloads/audio/infamy.wav

How about trading outrights? I found this interesting: http://www.trading-naked.com/FloorTraderMethod.htm Best of luck.

sounds pretty tough fella, sorry to hear it. thought no expert (so be wary of any advice i give ;) ), fixed income futures seem completely locked up to me. trading against so many automated players with so much liquidity can't be easy. i take my hat off to anyone who can manually, proftably...

A while ago, Mark Johnson of PGO fame used to publish futures data on his website. www.mjohnson.com. As you can see, the website is now "under construction" and the data no longer available. Does anyone know of a link to this data somewhere else on the web? Cheers, scotty_dog

I'd be interested to hear from you as well....

Jo'C, thanks for the reply. Am I right in thinking that FX futures liquidity is as follows, from greatest to smallest? 1 Euro 2 Yen 3 Swiss 4 Cable 5 Canadian 6 Aussie

Looking to expand my trading horizons, ideally within European hours. Via some back of the envelope logic and a Google on FX correlations, I'm thinking of starting with Cable and Swiss. What two FX futures would you recommend I have a look at? Any comments, warnings, considerations...

OK, thanks for that.

Please excuse my Energy ignorance... Given what's been going on with ICE, NYMEX, pits vs screens, could someone kindly tell me what are now the best contracts to trade electronically in European AM & PM sessions? ICE Brent? ICE WTI? Cheers, scotty_dog EDIT: Best as in liquidity, volatility...

great site.