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sinner said:
All I can say is, being a student at the school of hard knocks doesn't come cheaply. Being at the beach worrying about the robustness of my algo doesn't sound too good to me.
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tsk tsk.....get an algo that make phone calls to your broker.....he's an algo too, isnt he?
 
I've seen a few things in my time go wrong ld:. Two of the most common is having to call and close trades over the phone because of lack of internet. The second and more alarming one is exchange problems. I've seen the SFE go down about 5 times. Honkers close because of storms etc.

Only thing you can do is use a different broker and different instrument and try and get a hedge. Never a pleasant experience.
 
Punta said:
Totally agree, massive problem for intraday. Not so sure it's a problem for EOD.
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It's the same thing. If my program is managing the state of my trades then it needs to be robust to unexpected failure no matter what. Otherwise I somehow have to reconstruct the precise state and take over the job as soon as I notice failure. The only difference is that I've got a 24h (minus the time it takes me to notice the problem) lead on trying to restore state, intraday you've essentially got no time up your sleeve to get things sorted out.

24h might be enough, might not, you never know in advance because 9/10 the problem isn't any of the ones you conceived of happening.
 
Dax wanting to test the LOD again i think...Lots to be said for only taking trades back towards value!

Keeps me out of trouble.

CanOz
 
This value area chop is annoying....
 

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Is it conceivable that China's market stays low, commodity prices fall a bit lower than current levels, AND the Australian market moves higher?

Australia didn't always ride on the back of the mining boom...
 
Aussie dollar doing a good impression of a lead balloon today. ASX doing the opposite.
 
Hmmm, whats with the HSI getting so excited

German PPI?
 
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