Hi guys, Ive got the first piece of my system up and running, the quote engine, which is an interface to a quote priovider. At the moment its hooked up to MBs quote API and it is saving quotes to my DB. I intend to build a health monitor system to ...

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I think announcments(see calendar) can cause price to temporarlity be out of synch with it real value, you get the greed, fear thing happening. To automate trading the news would require a feed though.

challenges of developing forex trading system vs. equity and other EAs

I think the problem is the human eye->brain, it will see patterns, or price will look random. Using a computer to "look" at the prices using various measurements may reveal "patterns" that the human eye simply cant see in a naked chart.

Can you tell with naked eyes?

No problem spekkie, just think its good to keep an open mind. Good to have this thread although its kinda slow going.

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Im not sure how you equate that because you could get 2 or 1.4 then thats the most anyone else on the planet could get? BTW, Im not saying I have better results as I am concentrating on infrastrucure of my ATS at the moment. I just find it difficult ...

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It all depends on the system, profit factor of a crap system will be low on daily charts as well as 15 min charts. I use the tick data to organise it into different time groupings.

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It is tradeable, but not using patterns, at least not the traditional patterns.

Can you tell with naked eyes?

True, I am looking at intrada, tick stream based.

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This is why patterns are the fools gold of the market.

Can you tell with naked eyes?

Welcome, I started using Java but found it extremely slow compared to C++, so I have I am doing everything in C++. Do you find having data going back so far useful? I am only really looking at the last few months, given the market changes often. Mark ...

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There are many, many traders using automated systems based on quantitative analysis that have an edge. The fact that you couldn't develop a system does not mean you cant profit that way. Of course there is no formula or model that will bring profit ...

Double up and get rich???

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No, is it was simple everyone would be doing it, its more about adapting to the changing market.

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No problem, if you can profit then who cares how you do it. Keep up the posts.

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Why would a plan require you to trade a number of times? There no such thing as overtrading, there is trading without a clear strategy that is measured and you have confidence in.

What is over-trading?

Spot on, trying to predicting where the market will go is a sure way to lose all your money. Should be the first thing you learn about trading, its better to have an measured edge and let the edge play out, without trying to predict each move.

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I think the OP is using some kind of cross between charts and "quant", the best threads I have read on here and other forums have 0 price charts, the only charts thay have are maybe equity curves or distributions. Im not saying this style will not ...

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Thanks Craig, I think ill start with forex and try to build up to stocks, just didn't want to waste time if it was impossible to profit due to inefficiency. Got my MB demo info so its time to code. Mark

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I can see you are a million miles ahead of most of the people giving advice here, I don't think you need to worry you seem to know what you are doing.

A Lot of Money and Risk

Numbers.

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