AUS INVEST 25 RE FUTURES SHARES AND MECHANICAL TRADING
From: "stan the man" (svincent@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Futures, Shares and Mechanical Trading
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 06:50:33 GMT


yes am interested stan "Garth Atkinson" <garth@no-spam> wrote in message news:3F0A674F.70AD9583@no-spam > I do. C with MYSQL in Linux.
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> Back-testing purely mechanical systems is fun, but a waste of time.
> I can optimise my programs for say 1998 calendar year and achieve > good results. When I switch the time-frame to some other period, the > back testing produces lousy results.
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> I concentrate on charts without _any_ technical indicators (eg MACD)
> - just a study of trends, volume, candles and gaps. Weekly and Daily > on the same graph. Anyone interested in seeing one of these charts?
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> Why?
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> Matthew wrote:
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> > Does anyone here write their own code (VBasic, C++, etc etc) for > > back-testing and developing their own trading strategies?
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> > Regards,
> >
> > Matt >
> --
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> Garth

From: "stan the man" (svincent@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Futures, Shares and Mechanical Trading
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 02:33:26 GMT

no messages since 8/7/2003
"Matthew" <shares@no-spam> wrote in message news:3f0a51fa$0$23122$5a62ac22@no-spam > Does anyone here write their own code (VBasic, C++, etc etc) for > back-testing and developing their own trading strategies?
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> Regards,
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> Matt >
>


From: "stan the man" (svincent@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Futures, Shares and Mechanical Trading
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:51:11 GMT

I write c code for options selection using downloaded weblink.com.au options chains to find implied volatilities,theta,gamma,delta. on asx not doing back testing by c code as metastock works ok so far.

stan
"Matthew" <shares@no-spam> wrote in message news:3f0a51fa$0$23122$5a62ac22@no-spam > Does anyone here write their own code (VBasic, C++, etc etc) for > back-testing and developing their own trading strategies?
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> Regards,
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> Matt >
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From: "LANDT" (landt@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Futures, Shares and Mechanical Trading
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:16:09 GMT

I wrote perl (CGI) code to make a free stock market trading game at www.bullmarket.com.au
Tom smartwebdesign.com.au
"stan the man" <svincent@no-spam> wrote in message news:PXl8b.97342$bo1.62148@no-spam > I write c code for options selection using downloaded weblink.com.au > options chains > to find implied volatilities,theta,gamma,delta. on asx > not doing back testing by c code as metastock works ok so far.
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> stan >
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> "Matthew" <shares@no-spam> wrote in message > news:3f0a51fa$0$23122$5a62ac22@no-spam > > Does anyone here write their own code (VBasic, C++, etc etc) for > > back-testing and developing their own trading strategies?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Matt > >
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