I’ve been looking for a broker that has an API for index futures and ideally also futures options. I’m looking to use the API to build a customized view of my risk based on balances, positions, and market conditions. Searching the algotrading sub I found many API-related posts, but then when I actually read them and their comments, I found they’re often lacking in real substance. It turns out many brokers or data services that have APIs don’t actually support index futures and options via the API, and instead they focus on equities, forex, or cypto. So here’s the list of what I’ve found so far. This isn’t a review of these brokers or APIs and note that I have a specific application in mind (index futures and futures options). Perhaps you’re looking for an API for equities, or you just want data and not a broker, in which case there may be a few options. Also, I’m based in the US so I didn’t really look for brokers or platforms outside the US. If you have experience with these APIs, please chime in with your thoughts. Also, I may have missed some brokers or platforms. If I did or if you see anything that needs correction please let me know.
Broker with a variety of platforms including CQG, Rithmic, TT, some with APIs
Wow, this list grew longer than I originally thought it would be. If you spot a mistake, please let me know and I’ll correct it. Edit: - added Lightspeed API - updated Dashprime to indicate some of the APIs available - added Medved Trader to table - added marketstack to table
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YOUTUBE courses
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TWITTER courses
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FACEBOOK courses
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FILMMAKE/VIDEO courses
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SMMA courses
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Hey guys, A little about me - I've been writing algos on and off for about a year and a half now. I started with Quantopian way back using python to write stock algos, then realised I couldn't live trade with it, so that put me off that. I then found MT4 and MetaEditor and the world of forex... I was immediately in love with the simplicity of the language (C#), but I ditched it because forex just felt impossible to code around with all the volatility and news based price action. (I'm sure there's exceptions to this - but does anyone have a similar experience with it?) I finally landed on NinjaTrader and scalping futures, which is amazing and seems to fit way better. I'm wondering if anyone has experiences with successful Ninjascript trading systems and what advice they have etc. I've written up a few, one with a 76% success rate over 50 days but I'm starting to see how commission and tax really can have an impact...I'd also like to know about the reliability of backtesting using the Strategy Analyser vs Market Replay... Who's out there! :)
WikiFX: the murky business and the murkier methods
https://preview.redd.it/1rf74ljv34l51.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=566235871ce22dd3078f0532dfb672bff6eb0707 The irony of financial markets is that this business that officially has got as much regulation as arms trafficking, has also got the same problem –- numerous illegal entities that evolve around the niche. Scam brokers, funds recovery services that rob the robbed traders, HYIPs, “learn how to make millions overnight” trading courses and a number of other schemes all tend to exploit the weak point of human nature – the belief that there is the magic device with the “MORE MONEY” button out there, that someone can sell you.
A thief shouting “Thief!”
Considering the above there is a high demand in society for truthful and unbiased information about the market players. WikiFX claims to be the provider of such honest information about brokers but in fact, makes money by blackmailing brokers and promoting any company that offers to pay enough in their rankings. WikiFX is a classic illustration of a thief shouting “Get the thief!” louder than anybody else in the crowd. The strategy works unfortunately and traders tend to trust WikiFx broker’s ratings without questioning what these ratings are based on and who sponsors this global brokers’ database.
Paving the road with some good intentions
Even the most horrible crimes against humanity were done under the cover of best intentions. Starting with the first crusades and ending with the holocaust. There are always some sound arguments, protected people and reliable methods. Ask any trader whether each forex broker must be regulated by a third party? The answer will be “yes” with a near 100% probability and this answer is totally correct. Know-your-customer procedures and some unbiased third-party control are essential for maintaining the overall transparency of any business in a sphere of finance. This is the argument that WikiFX starts with when promoting its service and there is absolutely no point to argue. Starting with an indisputable truth is a good strategy to win the debate. “The long-term presence on the market adds credibility”, – says WikiFX, and hears “yes” again. “Don’t you agree that the longer the company is in the business, the better?”. “Sure”, – the trader agrees one more time. The mission is completed. This is when the broker ranker can add any other criteria to their appraisal methods. Traders will tend to trust the service because they’ve agreed upon the most important criteria. The rest are minor details. But what if the rest of the appraisal methods are not just minor issues? What if these details can be the means to manipulate the facts as much as they want to?
Can WikiFX appraisal criteria be trusted?
If we take a look at any broker’s WikiFX rating, we can see that the criteria of appraisal are the following:
The year of registration
Regulations
Market Making license
Software license
For example, this is what the top-rated broker’s summary looks like at WikiFX: WikiFX Forex com example https://preview.redd.it/t4ugtbt344l51.png?width=625&format=png&auto=webp&s=95fddf8434faf8938d1a3f18bbd5f1da2ceb47e4 Looks good. Really. Regardless of the attitude to this particular brokerage, the work seems to be done fine. All the regulators are listed below, the information on the used software, licensing, and years of operation is included. But what if we take some other random brokerage with one of the lowest rankings at WikiFX? NinjaTraderBrokerage WIkiFX Ranking https://preview.redd.it/pgyqp0u644l51.png?width=631&format=png&auto=webp&s=eb268faac83608a494c31a39eb1621f7132e3520 This is where the truth reveals itself. Once again, regardless of the attitude to this particular brokerage this is really easy to find out what they do, what licenses they’ve got and what kind of software they use. Suspicious clone? Seriously? If WikiFX staff cared enough to do any investigation prior to stamping that “Suspicious” mark on the brokerage, they would have seen that both domains, nijatrader com and ninjatraderbrokerage com belong to the same entity. NinyaTrader whois data https://preview.redd.it/2097lkw944l51.png?width=563&format=png&auto=webp&s=079cc4248b825a3cd941c6b691a67bb9769f4f7f If they cared enough to collect information on the brokerage from at least one reliable source, like Investopedia or any other similarly known database, they would also have found out that the company not only provides the brokerage service, but also is known for its trading platform with advanced technical analysis tools. But the only trading software that WikiFX considers reliable seems to be MT4/MT5. They simply ignore the fact that trading does not evolve around MetaTrader products, no matter how good and popular they are. WikiFX lowers the score of any brokerage with custom-developed software. We can clearly see this with the above example. Other criteria that WikiFX is proud to use for the broker’s appraisal are regulations. Using the same example let’s see how well they do the appraisal in this field. As you can see above, WikiFX used the “Suspicious Regulatory License” stamp for NinjaTrader Brokerage. And here is what The National Futures Association, that NinjaTrader is registered with as a futures broker has on its record: NFA regulation of NTB proof that WikiFX did not consider to be trustworthy https://preview.redd.it/di8fwkdd44l51.png?width=629&format=png&auto=webp&s=2de618d5df26bd8fcca99c51a6030f4bdfa7f776 We can’t expect every trader to know that any futures broker that wants to operate on the US market must be a member of NFA. This is the requirement of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regarding the futures broker’s operations. But this is totally unacceptable for a broker ranking website, which WikiFX claims to be, to mark NFA-registered futures brokerage as non-reliable. By the way, did you notice on the above screenshot that NTB has obtained the NFA license in 2004? Yet, this does not prevent WikiFX from claiming that the brokerage has only been providing its services for 1-2 years only, instead of the factual 16 years of operations. We can long discuss the reasons that lie behind such selectivity of WikiFX but this random example clearly shows that any brokerage that provides access to non-forex derivatives trading or dares to suggest custom-developed software to its traders is in danger of receiving a negative review at WikiFX regardless of the factual reliability and regulations.
What lies beneath WikiFX selectivity?
WikiFX claims to have a team of professionals that are all involved in objective appraisal of broker’s services, licenses and used software. The methods used by these professionals remain unrevealed and as we see from the above comparison two similarly reliable brokerages can get any score from 1.0 and up to 10.0 at WikiFX, no matter what regulations they’ve got, for how long they’ve been in the business and what kind of software they use. This is difficult to say what lies behind such selectivity with 100% confidence. The first thing that comes to mind is that WikiFX might be affiliated with some brokers. The hypothesis gets even more realistic if we try to understand who sponsors WikiFX. There are no transparent built-in ads neither on the web-version of the website nor in its applications. There are no paid subscriptions for access to the database. This means that users sponsor the service with neither their attention to ads nor directly. Being the non-charity and non-governmental organization WikiFX can’t be sponsored with donations or a government. The only option that we have left is that brokers sponsor this ranking system directly, which automatically makes the whole system non-reliable and highly biased. The only transparent method that we know WikiFX uses to collect money is sponsorship fees they collect from their offline events participants. Let’s have a look at the exhibitors of the recent WikiFX Expo in Thailand. WikiFX Expo Exhibitors
TLC is a non-regulated investment platform that was founded in 2019
Samtrade FX is not regulated by any of the agencies that WikiFX itself lists as reliable
Forex4you is not regulated by any of the agencies that WikiFX itself lists as reliable
B2 Broker is a non-regulated broker
XDL FX is a non-regulated broker
VAT FX is a non-regulated broker Six out of sixteen WikiFX recent expo exhibitors do not have proper legal status according to the “standards” of WikiFX itself. This fact does not prevent them from promoting the services of these companies at their offline events. This conspicuous fact tells a lot about the attitude of WikiFX to common traders looking for reliable partners. Reputation is nothing but a sale item for this brokers’ ranking system.
Murky & Murkier
So far we’ve only discussed the facts that anyone can check himself using free tools and sources. It was not that difficult to discover that WikiFX uses non-transparent standards for brokers’ appraisal. It ignores the specifics of some brokerages lowering their scores due to non-standard derivatives they offer to trade or custom trading software. It also promotes non-regulated and non-licensed brokerages, which is 100% against the declared WikiFX values and mission. The rumors are that this company was also noticed blackmailing brokers with the purpose of making them pay for better reviews at WikiFX. There are also some signs that indicate suspicious promotion of WikiFX platform through social media and Quora. Some of the WikiFX positive reviews also look highly suspicious. All of the above is a matter of further investigation. Nevertheless, thousands of users keep relying on the information provided by this scam ranking system. It may even look like all these users are satisfied. WikiFX has got 4.5 starts at Google Play, which sounds good enough. However, positive WikiFX reviews use similar semantics and are also highly suspicious. Despite the high average grade, Google Play finds the following messages to be most relevant and brings them to the top of WikiFX reviews: Google Play most relevant WikiFX reviews https://preview.redd.it/kftutvcl44l51.png?width=532&format=png&auto=webp&s=1ccb74ee156388285a2fab711dd604945c04377c
You’ve got the facts now and it’s time to make your own conclusions.
I started day trading in 2015 with zero experience. After all these years of testing methodologies back testing stocks,options, futures and forex, I was wondering what is the best platform for trading futures and Forex. I have tried MLQ4, TOS, and NinjaTrader. I am currently using Ninjatrader for my futures trading. I found out from my personal experience that to become a consistent trader, one has to manage risk to stay in the long game. This is now my morning trade on the NQ.
What are the best platforms for both Forex and Futures trading?
Hey guys, hope everyone is doing well! I have searched on this sub to help find this answer, however every post is in regards to only Futures or only Forex platforms. Seeing if you could please offer some feedback in regards to the best platform to use that includes both Forex and Futures trading? I understand that I would probably need to have different brokers for each, but I would like the simplicity of having both in one. For instance, is trading-view a platform that you can trade both Forex & Futures? If so, do you personally use it for both, or do you have separate platforms for each? I have been paper trading Futures on Ninja Trader 8, and do enjoy it, however I never read any info/reviews about using Ninja Trader 8 with Forex trading so I am skeptical.. although they say they can with; Oanda and Forex.com. FYI - I have my TDAmeritrade/TOS account for Equities and Options. (I wouldn't use TOS for Futures at this moment due to the high margins, and looking for low margins as I will be using small capital to start <$2,000.) Any help will be greatly appreciated, and I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you in advance!
Ninjatrader - Selected Dorman, but now which broker for license key?
Having been approved by Dorman and receiving the green light to fund a Ninjatrader8 account, I now must purchase a license key. When purchasing the license key, I must once again select a broker. My options are: "NinjaTrader Brokerage" "City Index" "FOREX.com" "FXCM (non-US)" "Interactive Brokers" "Oanda" "TD AMERITRADE" "Multi Broker (Includes all above)" "CQG (for existing customers only)" I'm not really sure what I'm selecting at this stage. Is there any advantage between one and another? Does choosing something like "TD Ameritrade" change anything about the platform or chart-trading abilities I've gotten used to on the Ninjatrader Demo? Does Dorman fall under "NinjaTrader Brokerage"? Is it advantageous to select "Multi Broker" so that my trades can execute on any of the above brokerages, allowing for increased liquidity?
Bạn đang muốn đầu tư vào Forex nhưng chưa có kiến thức về đầu tư trên thị trường này. Nếu các bạn có nhu cầu học đầu tư Forex thì có thể tham khảo bài viết này. Trong bài viết này mình sẽ giới thiệu cho các bạn một khóa học đầu tư Forex cung cấp cho bạn đầy đủ kiến thức.
Trung tâm đào tạo đầu tư Forex Papatrader
Papatrader là một trong những trang web quen thuộc đối với những trader. Đây là trang web cung cấp các kiến thức về tài chính, chứng khoán, Forex được nhiều người biết đến. https://preview.redd.it/hs0m723430451.jpg?width=867&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fb1601136052020a8641cb1b2df812a35369d8e Papatrader cung cấp khóa học đầu tư Forex bài bản nhất. Khóa học tại Papatrader được thiết kế dễ hiểu nhằm giúp cho những người không biết gì và Forex cũng có thể theo học và ứng dụng những kiến thức đã học vào đầu tư Forex.
Nội dung khóa học đầu tư Forex
Nội dung khóa học Forex được thiết kế dễ hiểu, chi tiết nhất bao gồm 7 chương từ cơ bản đến nâng cao, bao gồm:
Chương 1: Cơ bản về thị trường tài chính (2 bài).
Chương 2: Sử dụng phần mềm giao dịch Metatrader 4 (3 bài).
Chương 3: Giải thích các thuật ngữ trong đầu tư Forex (3 bài).
Chương 4: Nền tảng cần thiết trong phân tích kỹ thuật (3 bài).
Chương 5: Chuyên sâu phân tích cơ bản (3 bài).
Chương 6: Quản lý vốn và tâm lý trong giao dịch (2 bài).
Chương 7: Phương pháp giao dịch Ninja Black (1 bài).
Với 7 chương học này, các bạn sẽ nắm vững toàn bộ kiến thức từ cơ bản đến nâng cao về đầu tư Forex. Nhận biết được những rủi ro, cũng như cơ hội đầu tư, tạo được nguồn thu nhập bền vững với mức lợi nhuận cao.
Những ai có thể tham gia khóa học này
Khóa học đầu tư Forex này được thiết kế chi tiết, dễ hiểu phù hợp cho nhiều đối tượng khác nhau.
Những người chưa biết gì về Forex cũng có thể tham gia kháo học.
Những bạn đam mê kiếm tiền, đầu tư tài chính, chứng khoán.
Người đi làm có ít thời gian rãnh, muốn học và đầu tư vào thị trường Forex.
Những bạn mong muốn tự do về tài chính, kiếm được nguồn thu nhập bền vững.
Cám ơn các bạn đã theo dõi bài viết này, hy vọng với những gì mình vừa chia sẻ có thể cung cấp cho bạn những thông tin hữu ích. Nếu bạn có nhu cầu tham gia khóa học đầu tư Forex có thể truy cập vào website https://papatrader.com/ để tìm hiểu thêm về thông tin khóa học.
Seeking advice on platforms (or not) for integrated Algo development.
Starting at ground-zero as an Algo Trading developer, I am hoping for some advice on platforms for operationalizing strategies—i.e. would like to ultimately only build things 2 to 3 times before actually getting a clue of what I should have done to begin with. ; ) I have 20+ years of professional software development experience, mainly writing backend services in Perl, Java, Python, JavaScript or Go. Finance was my Major as an Undergrad. Instruments of interest are Options, Futures and maybe Forex. First question; should I even seriously choose an integrated environment, or—like everything else I do for a paycheck—build something from 'scratch' because of bad fills or high commissions? Normally, for a question like this, in some order, I'll do exhaustive feature comparisons, correspond/talk with vendors, kick some tires and talk to peers to make sure nothing has been missed, however, nobody I know has ever done anything like what people here are doing or trying to do, so... Has anyone had experience with Quantower? Quantower looks impressive and allows for writing strategies in C#. Noted also that cTrader Automate (formerly known as cAlgo),MultiCharts .NET and NinjaTrader (via NinjaScript) also have integrated C# or C#-ish software language strategy development and IB allows C# as well as other languages via the Trader Workstation API. C# seems like a good choice (nowish) for the sake of portability as it looks like more platforms run on Windows than Mac or Linux and most support integrated strategy development using the C or C++ or C# languages, or scripts based thereon. People mention a lot of interest in using R and Python, two languages I like, though their support for integrated strategy development seems to be only slowly catching up to the other languages. Is this accurate?
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Hi guys, I need your help with this. I've been looking for a free software that can replay stocks data. I've done a lot of searching and the best I found is NinjaTrader but it doesn't have data for stocks (forex seems to work fine though). I've got a day job and I'm not allowed to carry my phone while at work so my best option is to replay the market when I get home and on the weekends. Another decent option would be if there's any apps for a smartwatch that offer trading. I'm still practicing and while mobile trading isn't the best it's still better than nothing. Thank you for your help!
If you hodl or trade, you`re the biggest problem with the world of cryptocurrencies.
There`s 3 components to a market economy: Spending, Savings & Investments. We only have 2 and those are way off balance. Spending: Payments. Drives Inclusion & Adoption. Represents the primary bridge to real world assets. Saving: Store of Value, Essential driver for stability. The ideea that your holdings are safe over time and don`t depreciate. Investments: Trading, drives value of the economy, corrects inflation. State of the nation:
Over 3000 coins traded on > 1000 Exchanges.
70 Mil users world wide. That`s less than 1% of the population.
250 Bil market cap.
and yet, less than 3% of merchants (online companies) world wide accept any form of cryptocurrency.
For those that do accept it, they average about 0.5% crypto transactions out of total transactions.
IF there`s any chance at adoption, don`t just HODL. Don`t just DayTrade. Spend what you have. Money needs to move. The moment you start spending a portion of cryptocurrencies, that money moves. The entire supply chain benefits. Miners Mine, Exchangers Exchange, Businesses get paid, Taxes get taxed. The underlying value of your holdings grows as you tell more people how you paid your AliBaba supplier in Bitcoin and didn`t have any trouble with your EU based bank making a fuss over "why you`re sending money to Asia". If the only thing you do with Crypto is to buy it, hold it or trade it, it has no impact on real life. It`s not inviting more people to use it. Demand doesn`t grow. the value chain remains closed and non-inclusive. And it`s against the basic principles of Blockchain. You, the person who only has 10 USD in Dogecoin or the Hodler who has 8 bitcoins since Satoshi was in diapers, you`re responsible for the value of your assets and growth of your community. If you don`t SPEND it, people around you have NO reason to adopt. And if they do adopt, they do it for the wrong reasons and simply add to the volatility. Introduction: I`ve been in this space since 2009, reading all I could get my hands on. Coming from a poorly banked background and still having frustrations due to the inability of making online purchases at the time, just coming out of a recession, Bitcoin`s vision struck a nerve with me. I`ve been an avid believer in blockchain ever since and at no point did I buy crypto to store value, hedge my bets, invest, digital gold or any of this. I went in because it was, and still is: the easiest way to send money across the world. Ethereum`s smart contracts bring this simple function to a new level, introducing conditions to be met for the transfer itself. Simple, open, transparent, inclusive. Period. What we`ve become, as a community: As a whole, this community went from a group of passionate people who wanted an alternative to banks, government and politics, people who wanted to deal directly with other people, to something weird I can`t describe as a whole, but more as personas. Here`s what I`m seeing:
The "I wanna buy Pizza with Bitcoin" crowd. I`m one of them. We just wanted a simple alternative, we were okay with volatility because we always knew the more people use it, more stable it gets as an alternative currency. Conspiracy theorists, tech geeks, scientists, curious people fascinated by the endless possibilities of a global, open banking system, built by the people, for the people. Joined from the first 3-4 years of Bitcoin, many still join it.
The Hodlers: Also coined as the true "Believers". They`re responsible for the initial traction, and would rather liquidate their house than to "sell off" their Bitcoins. They see Bitcoin and other currencies as a "store of value" and see not much difference between buying/storing Gold and Crypto. Joined after the first group and peacefully co-existed with everybody so far. Most dedicated miners came from this group/generation of adopters.
The Traders: People coming from the finance world. They either did Hedgefunds, Forex, VC. Smart opportunists that saw the first 2 groups, saw the potential value of the system as something to be gained from (nothing wrong with this) and heavily capitalize on it. These were the first guys to look at crypto as financial instruments and started fighting the compliance game. This is also where market manipulation started.
The "Tokenize the world" generation. Driven by technology on one side, by the ICO madness on the other side, this opportunistic group wanted to create a token (and respective ICOs) for everything they could think of. Huge similarities between how everything needed a website in the 2000`s, everything needed an app in 2010, everything needed a coin/token started around 2016. Dogecoin is the perfect example of a joke that got way out of proportion, while the original ideea was to make fun of this particular group. Oh well, this group still garners a lot of traction/interest. This group is why we have 3000 shitcoins and who knows how many that never saw the light of day.
The Consultants, Gurus, Ninjas. The "know it all`s". They`re all about the TREND, not about the substance. In the 90`s we had the "internet consultants" who were selling strategies for people to get online. Later the same people were selling strategies to get website traffic. Later, it was about the apps or about the cloud. Right now, it`s about blockchain, token economics, go to market, liquidity, or investing. Some are super smart, most are useless. The only thing that really bothers me is that consultants take no ownership in the success or failure of what they`re selling. As long as you cover their fees, they don`t care if their advice works or not and usually blame you for failing. These are the "market makers" of today, the youtube/facebook/twitteinstagram investment gurus who look at charts for 4 hours and make predictions without really having any skin in the game. Here`s what I never got my head around, if you know how to make a market for a coin, or really know how to invest in crypto.... WHY would you charge me 20k when you can make millions for yourself in less time than that? I guess it holds true: those that can, DO, those that can`t, Teach.
This brings us to the state of the market today.
You don`t know how the price is set across exchanges.
You don`t know the real volumes of most exchanges
You can`t trust Gurus. Period.
Until your parents buy their Newports with Dogecoin and you pay your taxes with Bitcoin Cash, there is no adoption.
Proposed solution: Don`t wait for your government to regulate, don`t wait for banks or institutional investors to kick in, don`t wait for the media frenzy. Just do your part: spend, save and invest your crypto just as you would your USD/Euro/Yen/etc. If you`re a freelancer, accept crypto payments. if you run a business, accept crypto payments. If you have crypto, make crypto payments. This is the main reason we have crypto today and it`s exactly what we don`t use it for. Go back to basics and let`s see how influenced by "market volatility" or "market manipulation" or "media bias" the price will get. Disclosure: Yes, trying to solve the adoption issue has led me to build a platform for e-commerce that also solves crypto-to-fiat payments for more than 2000 tokens. We walk the walk, not talk the talk. I`d love to hear if you guys agree or disagree, and most importantly, Why? C:\> P.S. I love you
Question: What are good platforms for paper trading?
Hi guys, what are some good platforms with charts that I can papertrade? I used to use NinjaTrader and IB paper account long time ago, however this option is no longer availible since IB requires real time data subscription. I could use demo account from NinjaTrader, but its only for futures OR forex. I would like to have the option to trade stocks and etfs in one place as well. Since I only need end of the day data, I would prefer some free alternative. Thanks for your suggestions!
Digital marketer interested in partening up with Forex business?
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this kind of post in this sub, but I've found no better place to do it, so here it goes: I launched a website 5 years ago, that sells applications I've coded for popular Forex trading platforms (Metatrader and NinjaTrader). I've had moderate success so far that allowed me to live off this business alone. Who am I? I came to this market due to my passion for trading, and my experience in coding. My background is in Science (physics and statistics) and programming. I consider my expertise to be in coding, data science (data analysis, machine learning, models, predictions, etc...) and I also consider myself to be a creative and very pragmatic person, with a good market intuition. Who am I looking for? Since I've started this business, I've always felt that marketing was its weakest point (virtually no marketing efforts were done...), and after learning the basics of it and realizing how much it could help the business grow, I've committed to start taking it seriously. Of course, I could just try to apply the basics - and probably screw it all up - or I could actually look for someone who is experienced in digital marketing to do a proper job. Hiring a freelancer is not my first option, as this is a central area of the business that needs regular work from someone who has some stake in the business. So I'm looking for an experienced digital marketer, with an interest in financial trading. What do I need from a digital marketer? - Copywriting - Building sales funnels - Email marketing - SEO efforts - Possibly creating/managing ads in the future Here's how the business is right now: - Constant revenues, leads and mostly organic search visits - Ranking on first page for several important keywords directly related to our products - 3 paid applications - 5+ free applications - 3 more paid applications ready to be launched, each one with a free version to be used as a lead-magnet - Plans to launch a subscription service for data/charts that would target daily/weekly traders - Plan to launch an innovative product with machine learning as its backbone to help manual traders optimize their own trading in an effortless way - A key partnership on a very large non-english market I want to grow this business as fast as possible, and it's definitely doable in a short time span with a proper marketing strategy. Leave your details here or PM me directly if you're interested.
If you just hodl or trade, you`re the biggest problem with the world of cryptocurrencies.
TL;DR: There`s 3 components to a market economy: Spending, Savings & Investments. We only have 2 and those are way off balance. Spending: Payments. Drives Inclusion & Adoption. Represents the primary bridge to real world assets. Saving: Store of Value, Essential driver for stability. The ideea that your holdings are safe over time and don`t depreciate. Investments: Trading, drives value of the economy, corrects inflation. State of the nation:
Over 3000 coins traded on > 1000 Exchanges.
70 Mil users world wide. That`s less than 1% of the population.
250 Bil market cap.
and yet, less than 3% of merchants (online companies) world wide accept any form of cryptocurrency.
For those that do accept it, they average about 0.5% crypto transactions out of total transactions.
IF there`s any chance at adoption, don`t just HODL. Don`t just DayTrade. Spend what you have. Money needs to move. The moment you start spending a portion of cryptocurrencies, that money moves. The entire supply chain benefits. Miners Mine, Exchangers Exchange, Businesses get paid, Taxes get taxed. The underlying value of your holdings grows as you tell more people how you paid your AliBaba supplier in Bitcoin and didn`t have any trouble with your EU based bank making a fuss over "why you`re sending money to Asia". If the only thing you do with Crypto is to buy it, hold it or trade it, it has no impact on real life. It`s not inviting more people to use it. Demand doesn`t grow. the value chain remains closed and non-inclusive. And it`s against the basic principles of Blockchain. You, the person who only has 10 USD in Dogecoin or the Hodler who has 8 bitcoins since Satoshi was in diapers, you`re responsible for the value of your assets and growth of your community. If you don`t SPEND it, people around you have NO reason to adopt. And if they do adopt, they do it for the wrong reasons and simply add to the volatility. Introduction: I`ve been in this space since 2009, reading all I could get my hands on. Coming from a poorly banked background and still having frustrations due to the inability of making online purchases at the time, just coming out of a recession, Bitcoin`s vision struck a nerve with me. I`ve been an avid believer in blockchain ever since and at no point did I buy crypto to store value, hedge my bets, invest, digital gold or any of this. I went in because it was, and still is: the easiest way to send money across the world. Ethereum`s smart contracts bring this simple function to a new level, introducing conditions to be met for the transfer itself. Simple, open, transparent, inclusive. Period. What we`ve become, as a community: As a whole, this community went from a group of passionate people who wanted an alternative to banks, government and politics, people who wanted to deal directly with other people, to something weird I can`t describe as a whole, but more as personas. Here`s what I`m seeing:
The "I wanna buy Pizza with Bitcoin" crowd. I`m one of them. We just wanted a simple alternative, we were okay with volatility because we always knew the more people use it, more stable it gets as an alternative currency. Conspiracy theorists, tech geeks, scientists, curious people fascinated by the endless possibilities of a global, open banking system, built by the people, for the people. Joined from the first 3-4 years of Bitcoin, many still join it.
The Hodlers: Also coined as the true "Believers". They`re responsible for the initial traction, and would rather liquidate their house than to "sell off" their Bitcoins. They see Bitcoin and other currencies as a "store of value" and see not much difference between buying/storing Gold and Crypto. Joined after the first group and peacefully co-existed with everybody so far. Most dedicated miners came from this group/generation of adopters.
The Traders: People coming from the finance world. They either did Hedgefunds, Forex, VC. Smart opportunists that saw the first 2 groups, saw the potential value of the system as something to be gained from (nothing wrong with this) and heavily capitalize on it. These were the first guys to look at crypto as financial instruments and started fighting the compliance game. This is also where market manipulation started.
The "Tokenize the world" generation. Driven by technology on one side, by the ICO madness on the other side, this opportunistic group wanted to create a token (and respective ICOs) for everything they could think of. Huge similarities between how everything needed a website in the 2000`s, everything needed an app in 2010, everything needed a coin/token started around 2016. Dogecoin is the perfect example of a joke that got way out of proportion, while the original ideea was to make fun of this particular group. Oh well, this group still garners a lot of traction/interest. This group is why we have 3000 secondary coins and who knows how many that never saw the light of day.
The Consultants, Gurus, Ninjas. The "know it all`s". They`re all about the TREND, not about the substance. In the 90`s we had the "internet consultants" who were selling strategies for people to get online. Later the same people were selling strategies to get website traffic. Later, it was about the apps or about the cloud. Right now, it`s about blockchain, token economics, go to market, liquidity, or investing. Some are super smart, most are useless. The only thing that really bothers me is that consultants take no ownership in the success or failure of what they`re selling. As long as you cover their fees, they don`t care if their advice works or not and usually blame you for failing. These are the "market makers" of today, the youtube/facebook/twitteinstagram investment gurus who look at charts for 4 hours and make predictions without really having any skin in the game. Here`s what I never got my head around, if you know how to make a market for a coin, or really know how to invest in crypto.... WHY would you charge me 20k when you can make millions for yourself in less time than that? I guess it holds true: those that can, DO, those that can`t, Teach.
This brings us to the state of the market today.
You don`t know how the price is set across exchanges.
You don`t know the real volumes of most exchanges
You can`t trust Gurus. Period.
Until your parents buy their Newports with Dogecoin and you pay your taxes with Bitcoin Cash, there is no adoption.
Proposed solution: Don`t wait for your government to regulate, don`t wait for banks or institutional investors to kick in, don`t wait for the media frenzy. Just do your part: spend, save and invest your crypto just as you would your USD/Euro/Yen/etc. If you`re a freelancer, accept crypto payments. if you run a business, accept crypto payments. If you have crypto, make crypto payments. This is the main reason we have crypto today and it`s exactly what we don`t use it for. Go back to basics and let`s see how influenced by "market volatility" or "market manipulation" or "media bias" the price will get. Disclosure: Yes, trying to solve the adoption issue has led me to build a platform for e-commerce that also solves crypto-to-fiat payments for more than 2000 tokens. We walk the walk, not talk the talk. I`d love to hear if you guys agree or disagree, and most importantly, Why? C:\> P.S. I love you
Hi. For quite some time I'm looking at cryptocurrency markets and I very want to join this gig as a trader, but I'm feeling my knowledge of TA, FA and markets is far from being sufficient to perform profitably so I'm looking for a bootcamp or course that can get me on board. I've tried several courses but stuck on some of their common issues:
Historical analysis only. There's a big difference in looking at head & shoulders / double top / bottom / any other market structure / signal that have formed and looking at emerging formations. Forecast bias, "perfect example" and all that.
Holy grails. Some courses are just a long introduction to a single strategy or signal mix. I'm seeing the course as a fundamental broad preparation for action rather than a single tool introduction.
Inconsistent or poorly prepared materials. Thats when any questions are being answered with "go google" mantra. For googling I don't need any courses, I expect course to cover common questions and form solid ground rather than being just a limited set of recipes.
Generally low tools & process introduction. Crypto markets don't have terminal like stocks or forex markets have (MetaTrader, NinjaTrader, etc.) so seeing a live session with recommendations and explanations regarding particular exchanges would help a lot.
Ideally what I'm looking for is a big fundamental course like zero to pro covering TA, FA, other kinds of analysis of crypto markets with later instructor support on my trades when I'll start on my own (paper or real). Maybe I'm overcomplicating things, but "money don't grow on trees" so before I start doing something with my hard earned $$$ I really want to be sure I know what I'm doing and I've got someone able to tell me what I did wrong to avoid same mistakes later. All advises are welcome, especially those you've used to get into trading yourself. Thanks! P. S. I've seen a couple of similar questions around, but they didn't get much attention or had answers like copy-paste from google result page. I really would love to hear about your personal experience. How did you get in? What was your way? Did you graduate from some course and still in the markets?
Using TD Ameritrade Brokerage with NinjaTrader 8 automated strategies?
Hey Guys, I'm new to this community and haven't seen any posts on this topic, so if someone has asked/talked about this before let me know. Anyway I have been looking into algorithmic trading but currently use TD thinkorswim to execute trades manually. When searching for brokerages which allow for development of automated trading strategies I came across NinjaTrader, which seems to allow for custom strategy development and execution. The problem is that the NinjaTrader brokerage only provides service for Options, Forex, and Futures, but not Stocks/ETFs. Despite this, NT lists TD Ameritrade as a supported equity brokerage, which has me wondering if it is possible to develop a trading algo in NinjaTrader 8 and use the TD brokerage support to execute it for stocks. If I'm correct in this assumption, does anyone have experience with this/know any more on the topic? If I'm wrong, what brokerages/platforms have options for automated trading strategy development for stocks?
Hey guys, So I am totally new to reddit (at least for the posting side and not just for reading) so if I am violating anything in anyway please just let me know, but I have been learning to trade Forex specifically Forex binaries with nadex for about a 1 year and I have seen dramatic improvements in my trading I have been interested in investing all my life and still pretty young just looking for some direction. The reason I went with nadex was because I don't have to worry about taking my account negative off of a single trade, like other brokers because of leverage ( I assume?). I just have some questions for people that maybe are making some consistent profits off nadex?? I have been testing the Ichimoku cloud system on 15 minute charts focusing on 2 hour expiration's. The reason I went with nadex was I see that they are supposed to be CFTC regulated, but some people are still saying its gambling but then they say they still trade Forex, so just wondering especially for a US trader if there using forex.com?? I am not trying be offend anyone I am just confused and would like some clarification.... I am also starting to wonder if people that do trade Forex are generally using brokers like ninja trader or forex.com? I dont mind if i trade things other than binaries and get into regular Forex but I just don't like the idea of leverage trading, so are there some brokers that could be recommended? Thanks!
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