Thank you, Eugene. Right now, I am only trading stocks. However, JBT only has a sample which is future. I am so sorry for asking questions this strange way.
On Thursday, June 27, 2013 10:56:46 AM UTC-4, Eugene Kononov wrote: > > > 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.
