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- ElephantFlea replied May 17, 2011
From Wikipedia:- VIX is the ticker symbol for the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index, a popular measure of the implied volatility of S&P 500 index. If you can get a pricefeed from NYSE, then it's probably got the VIX available. ...
- ElephantFlea replied May 16, 2011
Use the VIX — Hmmm. Can you get it to lose consistently? :-) That's just as valuable! Nope, you can't Margin expansion calls will wipe you out. A margin call halts all of my strategies. I use the VIX for this. Any blackswan produces a huge ...
- ElephantFlea replied Feb 21, 2011
Metatrader volumes — For what it's worth, I've found that the metatrader volumes are a useful way of deducing the overall activity in the market. Price movements are most extreme when the markets are open (Duh!), and the metatrader volumes ...
- ElephantFlea replied Apr 28, 2010
Packed Sniffing IGIndex and other brokers — This is in effect taking advantage of errors in the broker/spreadbetters systems. Whilst it's possible, I think most brokers would find it unacceptable over the long term. Particularly with large bet ...
- ElephantFlea replied Apr 21, 2010
The bit's I've found useful... — Yes, that is exactly what I do. I don't care if my signal line is the best fit, just if it generates trades with a low risk:reward ratio and a high success percentage. Personally, I don't understand much of the ...
- ElephantFlea replied Jan 1, 2010
Try another editor, as it looks like it's not handling the line termination properly. Wordpad might work for you. Or textedit, Scite etc... Yes, absolutely. The whole point is to be able to reduce one's dependency upon a single broker - and to be ...
- ElephantFlea replied Dec 28, 2009
I uploaded from a unix box, so there might be unexpected line-termination characters. I've just downloaded the file to a Windows PC, and notepad seems to read it fine for me. Anybody else got a problem with the file? IG don't publish an API, but ...
- ElephantFlea replied Dec 26, 2009
Sniffing traffic — Most of the above questions have been answered beforehand:- 1. Read the programme that I attached with post #687 2. Read Post #674 3. I've no idea. I'm not a VB programmer. 4. Several, as described in this thread and ...
- ElephantFlea replied Dec 18, 2009
Auto-trading platform — Post #230 suggest a 11min 43.2sec timeframe, although I suspect CB was jesting. I wrote a couple of MT4 Indicators about 18months ago, and it was a horrible experience. I kept coming across poorly documented quirks in ...
- ElephantFlea replied Dec 16, 2009
Funky timeframes — Good question. It was just a suggestion that somebody made to me a while back; and I subsequently found (to my great surprise) that it did seem to work well on EURUSD at specific times of the day. This was all gut feeling ...
- ElephantFlea replied Dec 16, 2009
I get the actual tick quotes, not the OHLC bars; which is more accurate and inherently shows the spread. I can also send back trade orders, although that's turned off whilst my strategy is being developed. Currently I get a sample period of around ...
- ElephantFlea replied Dec 16, 2009
Packet sniffing IG Index — I've recently discovered this thread. You might be interested in the packet sniffing that I've done to connect to IGIndex (UK). After using Wireshark and Fiddler to see what goes up and down the wire, I built a tick ...
- ElephantFlea replied Oct 22, 2009
Use your broker... — When I started building my system, I was planning to use opentick.com, but alas that's disappeared. I also looked at the historical data available from Metatrader brokers, but mostly that's incomplete/unreliable. I now use ...
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