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    I think that zerodha is tracking my orders. What should i do?

    I am not going to those extreme cases but still these may happen. Look what mark zuckerburg doing https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/22/mark-zuckerberg-tape-webcam-microphone-facebook . You will say he is paranoid I will say he is intelligent
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    I think that zerodha is tracking my orders. What should i do?

    Na, I didnt bother about using a firewall and blocking amibroker in firewall is not such a good idea because amibroker uses internet for many purpose includes downloading data. Blocking amibroker with firewall may interfere with proper working of the software . Any way I wrote my own backtester...
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    I think that zerodha is tracking my orders. What should i do?

    I am not singling out amibroker alone but all those close sourced softwares, sadly which includes amibroker also. Call me paranoid but I wont trust any backtesting softwares which dosent provide the source code. The reason is simple they can steal and send your winning strategy to their...
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    Any interest in a Quantopian like website for Indian markets ?

    I have tried quantopian and in my opinion coding strategies in quantopian is a little tough you should be an advance programmer in python to code in quantopian. Are you planning to do some thing regarding this so that a noob programmer can code and backtest strategy easily.
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    I think that zerodha is tracking my orders. What should i do?

    Hi I also want to give my opinion about this. Its a sad but reality that every brokers(RKSV,sharekhan,icici etc) and not just zerodha who will will look into traders portfolio for their own gain. Zerodha is one of the reputable brokers in india and there are others even worse brokers who will...
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    Any interest in a Quantopian like website for Indian markets ?

    Hey thanks for the reply but I forget to ask you an important question. If you are using zipline library of quantopian and lets say in future quantopian starts offering the same service to indian markets that they gives to US market. Then dont you think they will shut down your site?
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    Auto Trading With Zerodha

    Hi soruabhg, can you write a script for algo trading in python instead of PHP because python is much more powerful than php.
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    Any interest in a Quantopian like website for Indian markets ?

    I am interested but these are my questions a)is it just for building backtesting and live trading or is their any competition like in quantopian. In quantopian they rank the algorithm and the winning algorithm will get a couple of millions of dollars for trading and the profit goes to the...
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    What is the purpose of stop loss in india for equity/derivative delivery?

    I came to know that in india we cant carryforword our stop loss to next day or other future days. If we are doing equity or dervative delivery trading with a stop loss then we have to manually set new stop loss daily. It seems NSE will clear all our orders at the EOD. So is there any...
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    Best Mobile App for Markets

    Jstock app this is the best they also have alerts
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    What happens if you buy and sell stock before T+2 deilivery?

    Lets say I have brought SBI stock today friday at 10.30am (T day) hoping that it will go up for next 20 days and for safety I also added a stop loss of 10 percentage to it. In India we get stock delivered by T+2 day so I will get my stock on monday(sat,sun holiday) These are my scenario...
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    Why futures delivery in stock has become costlier?

    I am looking for stock futures delivery in NSE and It seems July and August contracts for stock futures has become very costlier. I am looking for stock futures with less than 50000(even 60000) margin (zerodha) requirement for a lot but only Indexs are available at this price. Do you think...
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    Guidance on scanners

    I have used amibroker and ninjatrader in my expereience amibroker screener is good and fast but the software is very costly. Ninjatrader is bad I would recommend not to use it
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    Which is better Zerodha's kite, RKSV's upstox or Reliance's Tick?

    Which of these platform are better for an retail investor Zerodha's kite, RKSV's upstox or Reliance's Tick? what are their advantages and disadvantages? What are their best features which is not given by competitors? Comparison KITE UPSTOX Pro TICK Online/Live Yes Beta - Brokerage...
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    What is the optimal winning percentage for trend following?

    Basically I am looking for those who backtested their strategy thoroughly in a historical data and i am looking for winning percentage in that test. if sum1 is having exit depended on markets? I am assuming you are taking about live trading and its winning percentage. It will be very hard to...
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    What is the optimal winning percentage for trend following?

    I am starting this poll because I want to create my custom trend following system. The biggest drawback for a common trend following system which I know of is that they have very small winning percentage(20-30% or lesser) but some traders have reported more than 50% for their custom strategy. If...
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    How to confirm a trending or ranging market?

    Its very hard to confirm a trend but there are some indicators which can be used for finding the strength of a trend. ADX is one such indicatore. The common rule is if ADX>25 (or 30) then the market is trending.
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    Job as a algo trader

    My understanding is to become an algo trader companies looks for atleast PhD in quantiative science or Post graduation in quantitative science from a very reputed universities is a must.
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    Systematic Trading works

    Hey sorry for bothering you but I am running through your numbers your starting nav was about 182879 and your cumulative return is 267%. If my calculations are correct your ending nav should be 671165.93 and not 2781702. care to explain this? You already mentioned in another post that you are...