Disliked{quote} Hi Claudia, hope all is going well for you. As you can see, I've diversified my business interests..... especially with you in mind.Good health, David {image}
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Disliked{quote} Hi Claudia, hope all is going well for you. As you can see, I've diversified my business interests..... especially with you in mind.Good health, David {image}
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DislikedToo many times I've been burned by being right at the wrong time, timing is by far the hardest part of fundamental analysis IMO). So each day I'm placing sell orders at the bottom of the previous days range, to be triggered when price breaks its series of higher lows and starts flying south for the winter.Ignored
DislikedJust in case it's useful to somebody......... Attached is a ZIP containing a comma separated (CSV) file of FF calendar news announcements from Jan 1, 2007 thru May 8, 2015, timestamped New York EST (or DST when applicable). The CSV file can be imported to any platform (e.g. Excel) for further analysis. Columns (from left to right) are: Date, Time, Currency, News description, Impact, Actual, Forecast, Previous, Revised from, Plotted wingdings symbol (ignore), Color value (ignore), Spacing (ignore), FF event ID {file}Ignored
Disliked{quote} Thanks! Did you use a crawler for this, if so, what programming language did you use and any resources you can direct me to to learn how to build/write one?Ignored
Disliked{quote} The news downloader is part of an app that I wrote (screenshot here) using an old 16-bit release of Clarion, and was originally part of the Plot News indicator system. I removed it from Platform Tech after one user claimed that it damaged his computer, and my subsequent attempts to upload it to FF failed to pass their security scan. (However,...Ignored
Disliked{quote} Alright thanks very much! My friend once mentioned using Python to crawl lots of data from the web, dya think it would be a one of the good alternatives to look into for this case here?Ignored
Disliked{quote} Coincidentally, a year or so ago, I was thinking of teaching myself Python (here is good selection of resources), although I subsequently got sidetracked into other projects. As an old COBOL programmer from the 1970s/80s, I'm not really up-to-date with all of the latest OO languages, and their capabilities -- perhaps somebody else could help?Ignored
Disliked{quote} This is a dangerous question as everyone is extremely biased. I have stumbled upon a lot of Python when looking at web development and have worked with it myself for a few weeks. I personally really disliked using it as programming in python felt more like scripting javascript. In my opinion the language is a little bit too minimalistic (e.g. without the use of brackets) but maybe that's exactly a "feature" someone else likes. If you consider Python you should maybe also consider ruby? I think you can not be wrong with any of those 2. To...Ignored
Disliked{quote} Python sounds like it has the right idea about some things, but not so much about others. I'll stick with PHP for anything web for the near future. Python sounds like just another tool with strengths and weaknesses and some people like it and others are happy to pay it little attention. It's just another language with another mentality behind it. Look into PyCharm. I haven't used it, but there's a free edition that seems to cover the necessities. If it's anything like PHPStorm then it'll be worth the download.Ignored
Disliked@nubcake, @hanover, @Kilian19 Thanks for the responses. Think I'll start with learning C++ and Python. Currently I only know R and a bit of basic Python because I've been working on data-related work. Building a crawler like that would be really useful to test out some of my hypotheses about the market.Ignored
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CrucialPoint
Disliked{quote} Dear Mr CrucialPoint, As I've said many times, forex is merely a recreational hobby for me. Hence I have no reputation to maintain, and I'm more than happy to answer publicly....Ignored
Disliked{quote} Thanks for the response and added to my logs@ LearnAlways: I'll shoot you an email, but you're not going to like it
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