Ravi, Get real!!! Home/Retail traders are never going to be able to compete at the very high turnover/very low margin end of the market where investment banks thrive. Goldman's (and other banks) statistical arbitrage models which turnover billions of dollars of stock a day often making less than 1 basis point on turnover (which is still a lot of money when multiplied by billions of dollars)...1 basis point is 1/10000 %... With models like this it is critical to get price information as quickly as possible, hence "co-location" if their price servers closer to the exchange. Remember of course these banks also have effectively ZERO execution cost. A retail trader will never get close to that.
If you really think as a retail trader you can compete in that market you are seriously deluded. Retail traders make money trading in a different way... far less dependent on micro-second accuracy of price... --- In [email protected], Ravindra Palwankar <ravipalwank...@...> wrote: > > > > > Dear ALL > An open request to our expert developers of AFL for Amibroker > In this world of bleeding edge technology's, the one who has the best > system/strategy to take split second decision wins. > No doubt "AMI" is a very good software tool, but unless and until, there are > smart AFL's, it is of no use in a competitive environment. > There was an article , about how "Goldman Sach bank" is minting money in > trading by installing computers which run 30 millisecond's faster than all > the other computers. > With advancement of technolgy more refined AFL's can be developed. > Recently, I came across an AFL developed by Mr.RAhul Mohindar (RMO) for > Metastock, which has been explained in a lucid manner on his website. > URL: > http://forum.equis.com/ Training/Online%20Demo/RMO% > 20ATM%20Demo/RMO_ATM_DEMO.htm ) > > May I , therefore request our AFL experts of Amibroker to develop an AFL much > better than this, so that all the user's > of Amibroker can take better and accurate trading decisions. > Hope to see tha AFL soon. > Thanks in advance. > Brgds > Ravi >
