By range you mean the range a currency passes thorugh some period of time? Then this is just the function of the price change. i.e. of the integral of the price - - hence range is just another indicator just like MA.

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Maybe I wasn't clear on this - you are right that the different weather indicators are the same kind as technical indicators. However, the algorithms used to predict future weather are such as those described by Merlin - looking for certain patterns ...

questions from a future quant

No, those are not indicators in the sense we use them. What we use when we say "indicators" in trading signifies some kind of derivation from the price data. But pressure, wind speed etc. are correlated, but different components of weather. When you ...

questions from a future quant

I'm not sure you're right. Think of it - first of all you can open several different accounts on each broker - you can cover some ten or more brokers - none of them you need to see face to face, everything is done online. So you could open just many ...

Money laundering with Forex

Merlin, I was thinking about this kind of thing for a while already - one could use autocorrelations and things kind of markov chain models. Just like you predict weather (no weather prediction id based on indicators - they are all based on thing ...

questions from a future quant

Yes, I know I could use FXCMs platform (there is a plugin that would let me trade through any platform of their type), however, first of all I don't really want to change a broker, and second there must be an option to do it also thorugh forex.com I ...

A smart trading system?

Another question I had. Does anybody have an idea after I design and test my mechanical system, how I make it purely mechanical. My broker right now is forex.com - how do I make an interface to let the computer do my trades? I have yet no idea as to ...

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"the data seems a way off..." — I think you are right about the data being off the real values. I too downloaded the data, and it looks very very "jumpy" I'd call it. However I also downloaded from the other site I mentioned (the ...

A smart trading system?

restrictions and expectations for my future system — I am now devising the needed restrictions and the goals for the system I want to design. Please tell me if you think they are plausible. What I want from the system. A) I want to trade ...

A smart trading system?

Yes I could I also downloaded the data for the last 4 years for free from the site above (http://www.fin-rus.com/analysis/export/default.asp). The problem is that I am not sure that even 10 years is enough.

A smart trading system?

You can download tick by tick data from: url However I don't really know whether I trust their quotes entirely - they seem a bit too "jumpy". Now about a platform - I don't really know, but I was thinking of doing my work in MATLAB, it has large ...

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What I am looking mostly is to increase the available volume of data. I am very much afraid that overfitting might occur if I use just the existing data. (Remember that Stocks&Commodities article that random prices can also be very well back-tested ...

A smart trading system?

I am also with forex.com - 1) About the stops- I thought it was obvious that the minimum stop is at least 4 pips away on the majors. When fiddling with their demo I understood it. 2) about their charting software - It doesn't load for me anyhow - ...

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Oh btw - I forgot that I thought about another modification of the system. How about incorporating some news feed into the system which will be oriented on certain keywords and combinations to "understand" the meaning of it. Then modifying the ...

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