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Michael has written 41 posts for RaidenWorks

MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal Build 482

MT4 build 482, a jump from 451, has been released on 2013-03-09. http://forum.mql4.com/54431 A key feature is item 2: Terminal: Increased the number of allowed parallel trading operations for MQL4 programs – up to 8 parallel trade requests are allowed now. This ensures uninterrupted simultaneous trading of several scripts or Expert Advisors – it means … Continue reading

Failure is as important as success (and possibly more so)

Keeping things trading related, many a times you will come across in a forum, or a publication, or been advocated to by another person, a technical system where a whole bunch of charts are shown how a setup is ideal for predicting the following profitable price movement. A highly compelling story of its success is painted by … Continue reading

Spread widening during news and low-liquidity periods

Here’s some simple plots of the EURGBP spread during the course of a day. Initially tried to use Excel but R handles it much faster and leaner. You can evidently see the spikes during news releases and a general increase as the liquidity drops during the Asian hours. 2012-10-07, 2012-10-14, 2012-10-21 are Sundays. Green line … Continue reading

MetaEditor ‘corrupt’ compile

I spent the better part of yesterday figuring out where I might have accidentally written an infinite loop. Reason being that the moment I started my backtest, MT4 would crash upon accessing the EA. It seemed the most plausible explanation and I went about combing through every new line. What I couldn’t rationalise was that … Continue reading

Your specific counterparty risk is pretty much a crapshoot

With the latest debacle of Peregrine Financial Group Inc. CEO, Russell R. Wasendorf, Sr., misappropriating client funds, of which at least $200 million is currently unaccounted for, one has to really ask just how do you measure specific counterparty risk? Note that Peregrine Financial Group Inc., better known as its online moniker, PFGBEST, was a … Continue reading

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