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iwannatoscript started following 2 Data Interaction, Market Club's Perfect R Portfolio, TS Indicator Know if Long/Short for Equity Curves? and and 7 others
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Is Optimizing Profit Target & Stop Loss Curve Fitting?
iwannatoscript replied to cunparis's topic in Automated Trading
Could you post an easy example that work please? Is it possible to built something that search it in different time frame? Regards -
VWAP Indicator with 1SD and 2SD bands
iwannatoscript replied to dbntina's topic in Trading Indicators
if i use a volume chart is it more accurate? are there any video that wxplain how to trade with this indicator? Are there other indicator that should we add to help us in trading? Do you know is are there strategy profitable by vwap? -
Is it possible have a thread with a rating of all strategy in the forum that make money?
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Is there a thread that include all the best strategy on this forum, with a real reasult by user and a rating?
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Continuous Futures Contract / Other questions
iwannatoscript replied to Freddie's topic in E-mini Futures
Hi Folks, I see that option in IB is very usefull, i am thinking to merge contracts when there is this warning message be ib, so have continuos contracts.? is it possible? -
Hi Tasuki, i am looking to merge data to build continuous contracts for oil and bonds agriculturals gas, ecc... i read about esignal how to do. I think the best solution is merge when volume became bigger to the next contracts. Some is seasoned to do this on ninjatrader or in multicharts to explain well and simple how to do? Image and video will bw very helpfull. Regards
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Hi guys, is it possible make an indicator in easylanguage that write in quotemanager the data and roll automatic the futures? is there a commercial software to make continuos contrand independent from datafeed?
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I find this rules General Information on Futures Rollover CME CBOT Quick Facts about Rollover Day The following applies to many (if not most) futures contracts especially those from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). Rollover is 8 days before expiration. Expiration is the third Friday of each quarter month (March, June, September, December) The contract letter associated with each month is: March=H June=M September=U December=Z Rollover is on a Thursday. Rollover is usually on the second Thursday of the month but will be on the first Thursday if the first day of the month falls on a Friday Volume shifts to the new contract at market open (09:30 EST) on Rollover day New day trading or swing trading positions opened on rollover day should use the new contract month irrespective of when you plan to close it. New swing positions might be better opened using the new contract if opened within a few days of rollover day. Market myths abound at rollover and expiration. Check the source and confirm the probabilities before believing anything Rollover day is when we switch from trading the contract that will expire this quarter to the contract that will expire the following quarter. The futures contract that we focus on (the e-mini S&P500 or ES) expires on the third Friday of the months of March (H), June (M), September (U) and December (Z). The rollover days, however, are 8 days before expiration on the second Thursday of each of these months. These months have the letter designations H, M, U, and Z. Depending on the charting and trading platform that you're using you would usually have to switch your reference to the following month by letting the software know the contract and expiry month/year. On eSignal "ES H5" refers to the e-mini S&P contract that expires on the third Friday March 2005. Using eSignal and the #F designation it will switch to the new contract on the rollover day for you. I have bit more to explain about how eSignal uses the #F designation to make rollover day easier for you. On Globex, the trading day starts at 16:30 EST the evening before the "day" and ends at 16:15 EST on the "day." So, for example, Thursday's trading session starts at 16:30 EST on Wednesday and ends at 16:15 EST on Thursday. If you have a chart that is plotting the symbol ES #F, then this chart will switch the symbol that is being plotted at the start of the Rollover Day which in this case is actually 16:30 EST before the "day" which in our case is the second Thursday in each quarter. So the symbol swap happens at 16:30 EST on the Wednesday before that Thursday. Why is this useful? If you have 15 charts that plot several E-mini contracts on several timeframes then you have to manually edit each chart and change the symbol from the current to the next quarter. If you've specified #F then this will happen automatically for you and save you from forgetting or missing a chart - especially if you have multiple pages/layouts of charts that you load. When and why you should switch from trading one contract to the next? Liquidity switches from the current contract to the next contract at 09:30 EST on rollover day. This can be seen by comparing the volume (number of contracts traded) in the old and new contracts in the charts below. [Note that the scale on the volume part of the charts is different for the near and far expiry months because of the rollover effect and traders switching to the far contract.] If you are opening a new position in the ES before 09:30 that you plan to close during the day or perhaps before 09:30 you could use the near contract but you must remember that the spread will start widening as traders start switching out of this contract and you will struggle to get as favorable a price as you would with the next contract. The general rule here is that you want to get into the next contract as liquidity moves from one to the other. At this point in time (09:30 EST on rollover day) the spreads will be tightest and you will lose the least amount on the spread as you switch contracts. This is especially important for swing and longer term traders that may want to carry their positions past the expiry date. If you are opening a new position that you intend to carry for more than an hour and it's 09:00 EST on rollover day then you are better off trading the next (new) contract. What else happens on rollover day? You may hear plenty of myths and "truths" about rollover and expiry days. Don't believe any of it until you have seen it several times or have back tested this and verified it. I have heard many traders say: "They always mark it up on rollover day" or "stay away from rollover day because it is choppy and impossible to trade." First of all do your own back testing and investigations before you believe any of this. Start off by looking at the charts on this page and see if any of them (all from rollover days) match what you have heard. Then get some data from previous rollover days and see what happen on those days. Even daily data will allow you to compute the change from open to close or from previous close to rollover day close. There is no reason for the market to act any differently on rollover days. Scalpers, day traders, swing traders and longer term investors balance each other out. Traders trading large size contracts know that they risk moving the market if they are rolling from one contract to the other and so they break their positions up into more manageable sizes and move their contracts in partials in order to get the best execution prices. Traders are not focusing on the rollover process but instead on strategies that will make them money. They want to move to the next contract at the best possible prices and lowest possible costs. The rollover process is merely a mechanical necessity of the market. There are (allegedly) pit traders that just specialize in the days around rollover. They only trade these days (I have no idea what they do for the other 10 weeks in between rollovers but this is what I've been told) and they trade the widening spread in the expiring contracts. For whatever reason there are longer term traders that don't close out and roll their contracts at the optimum time. These rollover "specialists" will make a market (at a wider than normal spread) in the expiring contract and (apparently) make a very good living out of the rollover process.
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Thanks DUgDug, but i don't have the knowledge how to do this. If someone could explain how to do this for example by es or nq? i use zen fire and ib. This is the post on forum of ninja How to built continuos contract - NinjaTrader Support Forum Regards
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Ok i answer to you on the other post.
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Hi TRO, First for all thanks for all that works that you share. I like use and learn this trading strategy. Where could i find a how to Is it a ts or by hand? Have you got code for multicharts? Regards
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Hi Folks, i am using zen fire and interactivebroker, and i see that i could build a continuos contract to have a big database of data to test strategy. I have never done this before, is there a code or something that to it automatically in multicharts or ninjatrader?
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Hi guys, i need help to merge these futures to built continuos contracts. The main is to test trading system and see the difference between feed of interactivebrokers and zenfire. I use interactivebrokers and zen-fire. I read that each single futures has own rule to built a continuos contract. Is it possible a clear explaination and a step by step guide to do it. I see that there also many algotrader, how do you manage your database? I write down the main futures. cbl: zt, zf, zn, zb,zq, dd, re, zdj, ym, cme: 6e, 6s, 6n, rp, ry, rf, hc, 6j, 6b, e7, j7, nq, glb ge, pjy, eurex: fdax, fstx,fesx, fgbm, fgbl, fgbs,
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Hi what software should i use to start programming in c++ and bult some indicators?
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"Market Delta" Footprint for TradeStation
iwannatoscript replied to ant's topic in Trading Indicators
Simple questions: How to use market delta in real trading? easy explaination please How could i conbine market delta and market profile and volume? how could i define a setup of buy and a setup of sell? I imported on mc but the compiling process was unsuccessful, is there a one that works? Regards