Recent content by grantk

Germany has been paying compensation since the end of the war

Having lived in Germany for a couple of years I've had a chance to talk to many Germans about this. Up until the last football word cup being hosted in Germany, it was frowned upon to show much in the way of National support (flying a German flag for example). However the world cup seemed to...

Yes that has happened to me in the past - whacked with a late fee:bazooka:

Why don't you call the brokers service desk?

I was last in Phuket before the Tsunami so things may have changed a bit, but Koh Phi Phi was amazing so I would recommend going there. However I prefer the other side of Thailand around Koh Samui better than Phuket. Probably just as expensive though. I agree with other that 8 days is...

There are applications around that let you automate filling in website forms. These can be used if your broker doesn't publish APIs for automated trading, however you will still need some IT skills to set this up.

Unless your broker is Opes Prime! Opps, maybe not a great idea....:bricks1:

Hi All, Long time reader but finally got off my **** to register and post. I figure there are not enough posters based in Germany so I'm making up the numbers:alcohol:

Ah, it would of made more sense if I had explained it properly. The list of full trades is passed into the monte carlo application, which also has settings for position sizing and capital. These are set before the monte carlo tests are run....

Thought I might post my :2twocents on how I do Monte Carlo testing as I know it means different things to different people. I use AmiBroker with an extremly large starting capitial and simple fixed position sizing to generate a list of every possible trade the system could generate over the...

Hi Howard I read this in the release notes for the latest AB version, however I don't understand it's use. Perhaps I have the walk-forward concept mixed up - to me this means testing your formula which has been optimized on in-sample data, on out-of-sample data. So in AB if I have created...