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Yes I know ... two of which actually have enough volume to trade and
they have later closing times.
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "wavemechanic" <wd78@xxxx> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred" <fctonetti@xxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 11:04 PM
> 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 amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Yuki Taga <yukitaga@xxxx> wrote:
> > > 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
> > >
> > > mailto:yukitaga@x...
> >
> >
> >
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