> Why is the TradingSchedule from 10:05 to 15:25? What is the schedule for > JBT to collect the data? >
The data will be collected as soon as you start running JBT in either "forward test" or "trade" modes. However, the trading schedule, as coded in your strategy, would allow you to initiate the trades only in a specific period during the day. For example, you may have an idea that some "special situations" occur in a particular market between 2pm and 3pm EST. You would code that interval accordingly into your strategy. > > int multiplier = 50;// contract multiplier > Is multiplier the minimum number of securities per contract? > No, it's a contract multiplier which comes from the futures contract specification set by the exchange. It's used to calculate the gains and losses. > double bidAskSpread = 0.25; // prevalent spread between best bid > and best ask > Is bidAskSpread the minimum spread between bid and ask? > > Yes. > In the comment, I saw > > * Initial Intra-day: $2,500 > * Intra-day Maintenance: $2,250 > * Initial Overnight: $5,625 > * Overnight Maintenance: $4,500 > What are the meanings for those comments? > > This would be a topic on the fundamentals of the futures trading, and is out of scope for this forum. My suggestion to you is to pick up a good book which focuses on the futures. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JBookTrader" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
