There’s another reason why I am so reluctant to put money into a TFSA trading account to invest in Canadian stocks. As you know, in a registered trading account, such as a RRSP self-directed trading account or a Questrade TFSA trading account (aff), you cannot short shares and can only buy because you can’t trade on margin. As such, a registered trading account is an account for buy-only trading.
I just spent the last few hours looking into Google App Engine to use it for trading. Google App Engine (GAE) is a cloud computing development and hosting platform for web applications. GAE is similar to the well-known Amazon EC2 service but it is also very different. The main difference between GAE and EC2 is that GAE is not as flexible as EC2 but it is a lot easier to develop on. Think of it like using C++ (EC2) to write your own trading platform to using EasyLanguage on TradeStation or MQL on Metatrader (GAE).
I barely traded this month. The total number of trades in February for my forex demo account is ten. That’s far from my regular 150 – 250 trades a month. Ever since my trading system was broken because of technical difficulties, I’ve changed my priorities in trading. I spent most of my time in February learning a new programming language to ramp up my quant and automated trading projects.
I’m still recuperating from my food poisoning from last week. Meanwhile, I came across this unbelievable trading workspace showcase from LifeHacker.
40 monitors trading workspace
I have no idea how this trader can juggle 40 monitors during his day trading. I am satisfied with just one 24″ monitor on my desk. However, I’m neither a day trader or a professional trader, so perhaps I’m missing something?
What do you think of this 40 monitors setup? A dream come true or a charts nightmare?
#canadavsrussia #Alright, so I’m back from the dead. Let’s finish this cost-benefit analysis before the weekend. Here are back links for Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 in case you missed them.
The table below shows my expected return as derived through part 2 and part 3 of this series. As you can see, I’m only expected to break-even by risking 1% of my $5000 TFSA trading account. Trading just for the sake of break-even isn’t exactly an enviable goal. Based on my statistics, I typically say an expected return of 0.10% per trade is acceptable. Looking at the table, that would require that I risk 1.5% per trade.
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