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From: "Fred" <<A
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Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 11:04
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Subject: [amibroker] Re: I'm looking for a trading
system to purchase!
> Interesting ... I'd like to see how the short
side works since in the > states we're still only able to short stocks on
upticks.
One
major exception are ETFs (e.g., QQQ) which can even be shorted on a
downtick.
So even > with overnight orders
expecting to get the opening, for example a > stock that closed at $12
today, opens at $11 tomorrow and keeps going > down to $10 before it has
an uptick to 10.01 it's of course the last > price that ones trade will
be at. As far as limit and stop orders go > I agree but then of
course one does not get all the positions that > one goes after using
these and in a scalper type systems that by > their nature are expecting
average profit to be very small, using > stop/limit orders on exits might
at best be problematic.> > --- In <A
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> Hi Fred,> > > > Tuesday, July 8, 2003, 9:20:12 AM, you
wrote:> > > > F> And what do you allow and/or experience
for slippage ?> > > > For the most part, I don't. Most
of my entries are either opens, or> > limits, or both. My exits are
almost always on opens. So I get> > whatever the system is
testing. I also trade stuff where the bid and> > ask are adjacent to
each other most of the time, as well.> > > > When I lived in
the states "slippage" was pretty much a> > commodities-only term that
really meant "amount you were going to be> > flat-out cheated by the
floor broker or the firm you were trading> > with". ^_^ It could
certainly be a factor with illiquid stocks, but> > not with the ones I
stick to.> > > > Best,> > > >
Yuki> > > > <A
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