Pft. Counter Strike is so last week. We're on Left 4 Dead now.
Seriously though, do people do this? Do you find it works, doesn't take up too much time? I've been thinking EVE Online...
KillPhil08
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Eve-online has a great market system you can manipulate...
arabianights
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Dont have to worry about this if you trade in an office.
One of my early memories of Refco was a guy sat on another aisle across from me, would regularly watch some hardcore porn after his lunchtime coffee. I have no idea how he managed this because the office firewall seemed to be tighter than a gnats chuff in this respect, but I remember spectating with a bemused mix of interest and horror as he observed a long series of girls licking guys bumholes, only to have receive the pleasant reward for their efforts of a loud wet fart onto their tongues.
Adds a new level of meaning to spreading the Bund :cheesy:
Happy days!
Totally seperated network for browsing the net here... no filtering at all as far as I can tell :clap:
Strange question for a java programmer to be asking! Let me see the test coverage report from your auto-trader program and if it's up to 90% then I might consider the question seriously
Hot off the auto-trader, this hour's results attached. 2.38% up since open of currency markets on Sunday/Monday, after commission but before margin, across 53 trades. Trades done using Interactive Broker's paper trading system while testing.
While obviously if it was reliably making this much, I'd be running it live by now, I'm hoping you'll accept I'm at least on the right path...
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where is that, marex?
Skill Leverage
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Left 4 Dead is SICK. CS:S still has its place though. Can't wait for the new L4D campaigns to come out. Some new weapons would be nice too - twin desert eagles please B)
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oh, and FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments passes the time nicely too
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Oh no, I have turned into a stalker! Quick give me the pills before I have one of my turns...... :O
The reason why I was giving you a hard time (apart from because I'm a stalker) is because I'm obviously highly envious of where you are in respect of your trading plans, and you were asking what to do with your time or at least that's what it seemed like.
I spent the last month writing a risk analysis program to output all the stats and equity curves I want. Being a java programmer by nature, I keep getting side tracked by all the cool new ways to program this stuff that I need. So it took me a month and I now have some cool software.
I guess I'm annoyed at myself because I could have done the same thing to a certain extent in a spreadsheet in under a week.
On the other hand, if I had been really efficient and got to the point of trading live a few months back, I would have kicked off my trading right at the start of the credit crunch storm.
Really don't fret over a month here or there. I've been trying different ideas since May, and spent about 4 months coding to get the platform I've written, done. Only to decide it's not realy what I want or need, and therefore that I'm going to rewrite it into a different project anyway!
The market will be there tomorrow, don't ever feel it's a race, y'know?
That's good to know, I had assumed people were doing something for a lot more of the day, and therefore I was missing something. Thinking trading while getting my PhD thesis written has got to be a good idea, then
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If I don't get this stuff sorted soon, I'll have to go back to work, that's the only problem.
As far as my spare time goes, once I start trading this monster, I'm going to buy a DVD of tickdata and investigate how it fares when I shorten the time frame (EOD -> hours or minutes).
I figure that will increase the profitability of the system and give me more than enough work.
That's assuming it turns out profitable with EOD, after moving from backtesting to live.
As far as my spare time goes, once I start trading this monster, I'm going to buy a DVD of tickdata and investigate how it fares when I shorten the time frame (EOD -> hours or minutes).
I figure that will increase the profitability of the system and give me more than enough work.
That's assuming it turns out profitable with EOD, after moving from backtesting to live.
Oh, hadn't realised you'd given up your job for this. I'm still very much working at the same time. Combination envy and amazement here
Good luck, either way!