Please do not take this the wrong way toughluck, but I think you should stop live trading.
It isn't even possible that you have enough data on LE yet to make any kind of proper risk assessment. Trading on hotel wifi is a recipe for disaster. These are the first two huge obvious red flags I see. Much respect for trying to live the dream. We all want to. On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 12:40 PM, toughluck <[email protected]> wrote: > Merry Xmas! I am doing my dream.. Off to Las Vegas, hot tub at noon, check > on the JBookTrader screen.. off to Circus Circus with the kids in the > afternoon.. check on the JBookTrader screen.. Off to the casinos with the > wife at night.. come back, re-optimize strategies and repeat for the next > day :P > > Well, almost. I still have to go back to work in a week. > > So far I'm down ~ $140 of which $86 is commissions to IB. But it is > understandable as I started trading with only one day of data on LE... now > I think I got ~5 days worth. Continued problems with the wifi connection > at the hotel and bad 'human intervention' on my part caused about $200 in > losses. What amazes me is that the account is still standing and has not > run down to the ground when I am not looking. Looks promising and I'll > continue to learn about the program code and strategies. Dont know how to > connect the web console yet to look at the account in a cell phone, much > less from a hotel.. will do that later. > > Made some changes to the file writer and reader, in order to write and > read the cumulativeAsk and cumulativeBid sizes.. I think it is working. If > I have the the skill I hope to try to reproduce the calculations for hidden > liquidity in that paper linked in the indicators post. > > So far very pleased. Merry X-mas! > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
