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    Systematic Trading works

    Great performance ! Are you trading only in futures? And what broker, trading system, programming language and external libraries are you using if I may ask?
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    Auto Trading With Zerodha

    Sourabh, this is immensely useful. Thanks a lot. Just a few questions. 1. Is this fully automated, right from retrieval of quotes to order placement and execution? Or does it just generate the buy/sell trigger and we have to go in and manually punch in the order? 2. Here's an example of...
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    Need intraday data for backtesting?

    No problem with paying. But can I download the data to my disk? If yes, please suggest a source.
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    Day trading for those with a day job

    But as far as I know we can only trade INR pairs? And the market for that closes around 6PM or so I think. Someone please clarify. Thanks.
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    Request Suggestion of best free IEOD downloader

    1min historical data good enough for me for now. Where can I get it?
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    Need intraday data for backtesting?

    Thanks a lot, very useful. May I know where this data comes from? I am interested in getting such data for all scrips, not just nifty50. How can I go about it?
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    Request Suggestion of best free IEOD downloader

    How can one get historical tick data (older than 15days)?
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    Best real time data provider in India

    Is there a way I can download historical tick data (1min, 5min, etc.)? I am willing to pay for subscription to feed services if needed. I know programming also, so if there are any services that would let me download data via APIs, that would be fine too.
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    Day trading for those with a day job

    What are the financial instruments and markets that one can day trade if one has a day job and can't day trade 9AM-5PM. I heard that oil and forex can be traded 24X7. Is it true? What about commodities? Please give me options. Also please let me know brokers and software for trading these...
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    Tips/Precautions while shorting medium to low liquidity stocks

    Please share your thoughts on this. Notable personal experiences, good or bad, would be nice :thumb: I am particularly interested in hearing from people who have done the "big short".
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    What happened to PNB today?

    Yes, you are right. It is easier to cook up any kind of explanation of what happened after the event has happened. Classic case of hindsight bias. And if I understand right, "gap up" orders are executed 9AM-9:15AM right before the trading for the general public starts, right? As in, the...
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    Machine Learning (ML) master thread

    Parallelization will help. Additionally, you don't need to download the HTML to your disk for storage. Grab the page, parse it on the fly (using BeautifulSoup or something) to remove noise/ads from HTML and get the raw text, then do some preprocessing (stemming, stopword removal) etc. also on...
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    Understanding Market Manipulation

    Are there any books/websites/guides can elaborate upon the market manipulation tactics that these big guys use?
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    What happened to PNB today?

    PSU banks have been trading in the negative recently. PNB announced negative results just earlier today. Still PNB went UP by 3.5% by the time trading ended today ! As a newcomer trying to get his head around the stock market, I am flabbergasted. Can anyone help explain what happened with...
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    Any broker in india that provide service to trade in international markets

    I may be wrong here, but from what I understand, you can trade intraday on US equity markets for upto $200k. Just that no leveraging is allowed. Can anyone confirm if I am right or wrong?
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    Zerodha - Number One Discount Broker in India

    @Zerodha I am thinking about opening brokerage and demat accounts with you. Can you give me a demo account on your trading platforms so I can try them out first? Also what are your account opening charges and how much time do you take for account activation?
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    Upstox - RKSV - Trade in Rs 20 Max

    @RKSV I am thinking about opening brokerage and demat accounts with you. Can you give me a demo account on your trading platforms so I can try them out first? Also what are your account opening charges and how much time do you take for account activation?
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    Crude trading - books, journals, misc advice requested from experienced traders

    hi folks, any thoughts or pointers on this? i know there are a lot of accomplished oil traders here. don't be shy :-)
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    Crude trading - books, journals, misc advice requested from experienced traders

    Dear experienced traders, I am just starting with crude trading and have a few questions. Please answer what you can. To make this thread brief and useful, I request that you answer each question in 1-2 sentences only, and only answer based on your personal experiences. 0. General...