gilj

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   by gilj 5y ago

   Ask yourself what you would use if you didn't want the general public to see it, while allowing your friends to see it? You would use anonymous accounts, or you would use use the privacy tools these platforms offer, or you would just
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   by gilj 9y ago

   Just a small off-topic comment: the Swiss Franc is not as stable as you think. For example, it used to be pegged (as in, CHF 1 was supposed to be worth EUR 1.2), but in recent history the Swiss Central Bank decided to unpeg the CHF to EUR,
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   by gilj 9y ago

   It's not about using the 20 years of data to fit your model, it's about using the 20 years of data to test your strategy on (a process called backtesting). Once you know how it performs historically, you can develop an intuition f
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   by gilj 9y ago

   When using IB, you can trade on your own machine/vps/whatever. I suggest you do this, and set it up such that you trade on an IB paper account, make sure everything is running correctly and in line with your backtests, and then st
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   by gilj 9y ago

   One of the very first things they ask you when you open a bank account in Switzerland is whether you are from the US. When I was asked this, and I asked them why this was important (I'm not from the US btw.), the person on the other si
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   Why automation may bore us to death(levels.io)

   1 points by gilj 12y ago|1 comments