Tag Archives: programming

Comparing Trading API from 6 Online Forex Brokerages

By Paul | Published: April 14, 2010
Choosing a discount broker for forex trading is time consuming. As the forex market is not centralized, choosing a discount broker is sort of like picking a stall in a farmer’s market. They all offer the same product, but prices, features, quality, and services can vary considerably between fx brokerages. One criteria that I consider [...]
Posted in Forex | Also tagged API, broker | 1 Comment

From Object Oriented Programming to Object Oriented Design

By Paul | Published: March 22, 2010
The good news is that I have finished my data scraping module for extracting all the company data listed on the two Toronto Stock Exchanges (TSX and TSV). I presented an alpha version of this data scraping module last week. I added the functionality to download all the historical quotes from Yahoo for all the [...]
Posted in Quantitative Finance | Also tagged object oriented | 1 Comment

A sign that you are truly enjoying what you do

By Paul | Published: March 15, 2010
When was the last time that you were working on something and you were so immersed in it that you have forgotten about the hours that gone by? That feeling of timelessness while doing something for hours. Not the type that you’re stressed and feel that you don’t have enough time to do a job. [...]
Posted in Journal | Also tagged trading for a living | Leave a comment

Why I am not a big fan of MQL4 or trading platform scripting

By Paul | Published: February 8, 2010
I spent most of 2008 trading futures and developing automated systems on Tradestation.  The futures trading didn’t turn out so well as I lost 40% of my account and had to call it quit.  My quant development work on the other hand, was coming along slow but steadily.  However, since I couldn’t bear the monstrous [...]
Posted in Quantitative Finance | Also tagged EasyLanguage, MQL4 | Leave a comment