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May 3, 2008

Credit Hedge Arbitrage

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After a successful acquisition of a multifinance company in the year of 2006, and heavily restructured the company along 2007, Risenberg launched its first credit hedge arbitrage program. The purpose of the acquisition was to provide an efficient vehicle for Risenberg to develop and run its arbitrage system. The acquisition was a deal worth IDR 10 Billion (USD 1.1 Million). Risenberg partnered with another group of investors in the deal and had been approved by the Department of Finance of Indonesia.

By participating in the program, corporate investors are able to gain an opportunity in an alternative asset class that has a very low correlation to the traditional market (ie. stock and bonds). The program is able to deliver a fixed 11% – 14% annual return to participants. The program exploits a continuous arbitrage opportunity that exclusively accessible only by a small number of players in Indonesia’s interbank money market. This is a close ended investment program, will only be available until a IDR 50 Billion (USD 5.5 Million) is reached.

For more info on the program, please contact Risenberg at www.risenberg.com

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November 5, 2007

Will we be there?

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If I set a target of a U$10M under management within the next 5 years, would it be something realistic? That would put us in the same competition room with these great names: Galleon Strategic Mgmt, DynexCorp Ltd., FEM Currency Portfolio Ltd, New World Cap’l Mgmt, MIGFX Inc, Overlay Asset Mgmt, Forex Cap’l Mkts, Lambay Capital Limited, Trimmer Cap’l Mgmt, and Ketch Capital Management.
Despite of the good start that we’re up 5% for the month of October which was achieved under a very conservative 10:1 gearing ratio by the Ri-VER algorithm, I still have this question in my head: “Am I dreaming here?”
And please don’t laugh at me when I sing the rainbow song while looking at this table taken from the November issue of Currency Traders Magazine.
Good luck to us!

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high in the land that I heard of once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. Someday I’ll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me. Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that’s where you’ll find me. Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. If happy little bluebirds fly above the rainbow, why, oh why can’t I?


September 28, 2007

the fund

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have just received a news from the broker early this morning. it’s about the fund that has just arrived in the account of an important client. although i have my internet connection working well here in the middle of the village of ubud, but i couldn’t get connected with the server back in the office using the teamviewer remote software. seems that it has some issues of failure to resume after a shut down.

with this situation, i guess i have to visit the server room sometimes today just to restart the server and will move the server to yogi’s place maybe next week. i have nobody with the ability to handle the situation in the office today, so i need to call the client today that the account wont be start traded today, and theres no need to hurry bacause the market will still be there with more opportunities lay ahead to get.

September 10, 2007

Ri-VER v.y.6c

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Need to add more touch on the money-management part.
Now is still using a proportional increment according to the equity.
Cllick on the thumbnail to view a screen shot of the golden goose. =P

Thanks to Mojo who in the previous chat session, has reminded me of some basic concept in system development. The algorithm is so much better now.

Conclusion from a valuable chat session today with him:
Mojo: 1) use faster momentum (osma)
Mojo: 2) segmental optimization
Mojo: 3) don’t depend on timefilter

August 21, 2007

Due to the regulation…

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Due to the regulation we strictly comply with, Risenberg Capital are not soliciting/offering any advisory services, nor any managed account programs nor any kinds of investment products to clients from Indonesia.

Existing holders of account(s) with FXLQ (USA), or FastbrokersFX (USA), or MIGFX (Swiss) –under their very own discretion– can have their account(s) to be traded by any trading robots provided by any vendors under a Limited Power of Attorney (LPOA) arrangement.

For information on Risenberg’s project on mechanical trading systems, please send us your query.

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July 18, 2007

Sekilas tentang algorithmic trading

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Pada umumnya pelaku pasar melakukan aktifitas trading di market currency, saham, atau derivatif, dengan menggunakan salah satu atau gabungan dari dua aliran, yaitu dengan pendekatan teknikal atau pendekatan fundamental.

Namun kedua aliran tersebut memiliki kelemahan mendasar, yaitu berusaha melakukan prediksi. Padahal prediksi di mana pun tidak pernah bisa diandalkan. Performance/kinerja dari aktifitas trading yang didasarkan pada pendekatan prediktif tidak akan pernah profitable secara konsisten. Resiko dan ekspektasi profitnya sulit untuk diukur.

Berikut terusan pembicaraan saya dengan mas wahyu, sedikit mengenai hal tersebut.

Awalnya mas wahyu tanya soal option, tapi kemudian saya menambahkan informasi mengenai pendekatan algoritmik dalam melakukan aktifitas trading.

Urutan email sudah saya susun ulang dari yang pertama ada di atas, dilanjutkan jawab-menjawab secara berurutan.

Semoga bermanfaat.

 

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On 7/10/07, Dewanto, Wahyu wrote:

Darma: Apa khabar? Boleh ganggu sedikit mau tanya tentang stock market. Minggu lalu saya diajak teman ikutan free seminar Options yg diajar oleh Abraham Lembang. Dia itu dijuluki sebagai Bpk Option Indonesia oleh Smart FM radio. Krn dia claim yg bawa options pertama kali ke Indonesia. Bener apa nggaknya, saya tidak tahu .. Tapi anyway dari dia saya belajar sesuatu yg baru, bahwa bermain saham risknya dpt diatur agar tetap dapat gain walaupun harga saham tdk bergerak atau turun. Tapi lagi2 setiap ada free seminar pasti ada embel2 lagi bahwa utk ikutan maen harus diwajibkan ikut workshop yg notabene harus bayar juga .. Dan akhirnya kitapun tahu juga bahwa mereka itu sebenarnya promosi bisnis untuk dapat collect money. Hahaha

Saya mau tanya apakah Darma tahu tentang selak beluk bermain options?

Trims

Wahyu

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From: Darma Sudiarta
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 7:06 AM
To: Dewanto, Wahyu
Cc: Wayan Mega Budiartha
Subject: Re: Options

Hallooww.. mas wahyu..

Iya nih, wayan sempat menyebutkan soal ini ke saya. tapi trus saya pergi ke luar kota selama seminggu ini. jadi baru reply hari ini. maaf ya atas kelambatannya, mas..

Option memang pintu masuk yg unik utk mengeksploitasi volatilitas market. Market apapun: stock, stock indices, spot fx, cfd.. any market. Masuk ke market dengan menggunakan teknik option, memang memaksa pelakunya utk mau tidak mau menjadi disiplin dengan risk management, karena bila masuk market dengan teknik spot atau plain-buy/sell, seringkali pelaku menjadi tidak disiplin dan loss cutting, yang seringkali berujung pada petaka amblasnya capital. Tapi sayangnya, dengan teknik option, timbul banyak sekali keterbatasan2. Banyak sekali manuver2 strategi trading yang tidak dapat diaplikasikan dengan menggunakan teknik option. Sedangkan sebaliknya, manuver2 strategi apapun yang coba dilakukan dengan teknik option, akan bisa dilakukan dengan teknik non-option seperti di kontrak rolling spot atau direct buy/sell di instrumennya.

Misalnya di kondisi market yg tidak bergerak, menggunakan teknik no-touch (double no-touch atau single nt) di option memang memberi kita peluang mendulang profit dari market yg diam. Tapi ini pun bisa dilakukan dengan teknik spot.

Sedangkan misalnya teknik trading trendfollowing yg memerlukan pyramiding, atau teknik trading intraday yang membutuhkan kelincahan entry-exit dengan risk management yg terukur, tidak bisa dilakukan lewat option.

Gitu pendapat saya sih tentang option, mas.

kalau tentang pak abraham lembang yang disebut sebagai bapak option indonesia, rasanya kurang tepat ya. option adalah teknik trading yang dikenal luas dalam dunia trading sejak dulu. saya dan kawan2 mengenal option, tanpa sedikitpun bersentuhan dengan beliau atau informasi dari indonesia, jadi ya rasanya lebih banyak trader di indonesia yang mengenal option secara langsung dari luar negeri. hanya saja, tidak mengajarkannya kepada publik, apalagi mendulang profit dari jualan training seperti itu.

Shovel sellers memang selalu berkembang subur. Hal serupa juga terjadi di market lain. Untuk di Indonesia, kali ini kebetulan sedang booming di option. Seprti halnya ciri2 dari shovel sellers lainnya, hal yang biasa2 saja dan penuh resiko, dibuat seolah2 bombastis, no-risk atau less risky dll. Tapi kalau nilai nominal kursusnya terjangkau, tidak ada salahnya ikut kursusnya, mas. Lalu nanti kalau sudah mengerti juga, bisa aja nanti mas wahyu bikin kursus serupa. bisnis kursus memang less risky dibanding mentradingkan teknik tersebut secara langsung..

Rgrds,
Darma Sudiarta
Risenberg Capital
www.risenberg.com
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On 7/14/07, Dewanto, Wahyu wrote:

Darma my good fellow:

Trims utk penjelasannya.

Kayaknya Darma harus kasih education ke kita2 nih ttg bgmn strategi trading yg jitu. Saya bener2 blind dgn bisnis yg beginian.

Apakah Risenberg juga memberikan kursus2/seminar2 gratis?? hahaha becanda koq …

Denger dari Wayan, Risenberg cuma mau memberikan advise consult ke company bukan personal? Wah padahal kita sangat berharap, Darma bisa membukakan mata kita utk melek stock trading … jadi kita tidak jadi looser atau gambler dalam bisnis yg beginian. Maklum aja capital yg ada cuma pas2an.

Kapan dong ke jakarta ngobrol2 lagi?

wahyu

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From: Darma Sudiarta
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 2:26 PM
To: Dewanto, Wahyu
Subject: Re: Options

Sama2, mas wahyu.. saya senang sekali kalau kita bersama teman2 mas wahyu bisa bertemu dan saling berbagi pengalaman, pandangan, dan pengetahuan dalam hal trading ini. saya sendiri mendevelop algorithms, untuk market currency. sedangkan untuk stock, ada juga algorithms utk market ini, tapi belum pernah saya gunakan karena masih terbatasnya akses ke market saham kita, yaitu belum adanya akses penggunaan automatic execution oleh robots/algorithm secara langsung ke market. bisa saja lewat perantara brokers, dan mestinya profitable juga, karena salah satu algorithm yg bermain di mid-long term memang memiliki sifat-sifat yg universal, bisa ditradingkan di market apa pun, apalagi di market saham Indonesia yg masih immature, sehingga sangat favorable utk sistem-sistem trading trendfollowing mekanis seperti salah satu sistem yg pernah saya develop.

iya, memang dengan menggunakan suatu algorithm yg terdefinisi jelas, dan terkuantisasi, teruji, maka kita akan melakukan aktifitas yang terukur di market. penggunaan algorithm ini bukan hanya sekedar penggunaan analisis teknikal, tapi beyond technical, karena technical analysis memiliki kelemahan yang fundamental. kalau saya ke jakarta, dan ada waktu untuk bincang-bincang tentang hal ini, akan sangat menarik. Dan menurut pengetahuan saya, pendekatan seperti ini dalam melakukan aktifitas trading di market, adalah hal yang baru di Indonesia.

Rgrds,

Darma

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On 7/17/07, Dewanto, Wahyu wrote:

Darma:

Wah makin menarik aja nih dengan algorithm yg dibikin oleh Darma.. yg dimaksud dgn market currency itu valas ya?? Kalo algorithmnya Darma bisa memprediksi stock wah lebih asiik lagi nih … jenius sekali …

Boleh dong kita ketemuan ntar kalo sempat mampir di jkt dan lagi nggak sibukk.

salam hangat,

wahyu

 

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From: Darma Sudiarta
Date: Jul 17, 2007 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: Options
To: “Dewanto, Wahyu”
Cc: megabudi

Iya, mas wahyu, currency market maksudnya valas, tapi bukan yang majors versus rupiah, karena kurang volatile utk bisa dieksploitasi.

utk stock, bbrapa algorithm memang bisa digunakan, misalnya algorithm yg berbasis “trendfollowing” yang bermain di mid-long term.

sebenarnya sih tidak memprediksi, karena kalau ditanya market tertentu akan bullish atau bearish, tidak bisa dijawab. currency mana yg akan naik atau turun, kapan suatu saham akan naik atau turun, dan berbagai macam prediksi, tidak dapat dilakukan.
yg dilakukan oleh algorithm2 tersebut adalah menentukan keputusan2 trading, yang terdiri dari entry timing, size (besarnya/jumlah contract yg kita transaksikan sesuai dengan capital kita), timing exit, multiply entries/exits, semua tanpa pendekatan prediktif sperti yang dicoba dilakukan oleh para market technicians apalagi para pakar fundamentalist yang selalu mencoba memprediksi.

iya mas wahyu, nanti kita kontak2an kalo saya ke jakarta, kita ktemuan aja. kalau ada 5-10 orang, saya sekalian siapkan presentation slides atau handouts, untuk kita berdiskusi dan berbagi pengetahuan.

Rgrds,

Darma

The next platform for the robots

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http://www.ninjatrader.com

NinjaTrader seems to be a good platform for developing robot.
It is based on C++ language, so it will be powerful enough to handle various features of the robots.

Although we are now satisfy with the Metatrader platform, but the lack of choice for well-known brokerage firms to execute the trades has been some obstacle for accepting big clients. Big clients prefer to put their money with well-known brokers, such as the Man Financials, or at least the Interactive Broker.
The largest brokerage firm that accept MT4-generated trades are the FXLQ, which we are now using. Their NAC now is some 36 million USD, while the Man’s is some 500 million USD

List of NT-supporting brokerage firms:
- Mirus Futures
- AMP Futures
- Spike Trading
- cCAP Futures
- Gain Capital
- Alaron
- Interactivebrokers
- MB Trading
- Velocity Futures
- Advantage Futures
- Man Financial
- Fox
- Daniel Trading
- King
- Infinity
- Zaner
- Rosenthal Collins
- Dorman Trading

Man Financial is the real big one. Having the robot playing at this big playground of the trading world will put us to the next level of the competition.

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June 12, 2007

Risenberg triathlon team

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Risenberg Triathlon Team, will compete in the Bali International Triathlon, June 24th 2007.

The team members are:

Swimming: Bayu Putra.
3rd winner of International Lifeguard Championship, Sydney
Porda Bali, Klungkung Contigent
Private Trainer, Denpasar

Cycling: Cahya S
Gadjah Merapi Speed Cycling Club

Running: Ozias Ramlasi
PON Gold Medal for 3 period consecutively
Bronze Medal, Sea Games, Malaysia

For more information on the event, please visit the Bali International Triathlon website. http://www.balitriathlon.com

Risenberg Capital (www.risenberg.com) is an investment advisor specializing in the trading of the global currency market. Risenberg invest in research-based trading strategies. By partnering with Risenberg individual and institutional clients have gained access to robust trading strategies to be applied in their trading activity.

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June 6, 2007

Fwd: historical economic calendar?

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———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Darma
Date: Jun 6, 2007 3:00 PM
Subject: historical economic calendar?
To: MetaTrader_Experts_and_Indicators@yahoogroups.com
Cc: indotraders@yahoogroups.com,
Berjangka_Derivatives@yahoogroups.com, milis-aati@yahoogroups.com

Dear friends,

Does anyone know where can be found an HISTORICAL economic calendar
for the US, or Japan or Europe or just any of them?
for example, i wud like to know what was the economic data schedule
for the date of May 17th 2000, a certain day some several years ago ?
e.g. : was it a holiday? or was it a CPI day? or was it an Interest
Rate decision day?

Much appreciate.

May 8, 2007

Cuap2 bulan mei

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Ugh, sering denger kan seminar2 dan promosi2 tentang investasi di market forex atau futures (stock index) gitu. Biasanya promosinya manis tapi isinya pahit.
Pasti udah sering denger kan, dengan iming2 “investasi”, tapi ternyata malah duit jadi amblas blas blas blas….
Kasus besar yg terbongkar misalnya kasus Sarana Perdana Indoglobal (SPI), trus ada kasus IBIST, trus kasus WBG (Dressel). Semua mengatas-namakan investasi. Belum lagi penipuan kecil2an yg dilakukan oknum marketing dari futures brokers gitu. Janjiin profit lah, nawarin fix-profit lah dll. Tapi kenyataannya malah sebaliknya: uang nasabah dibawa kabur. Haks haks haksss.. kacau banget dah pokoknya..

Nah, kebetulan akhir bulan mei ini saya ada kesempatan utk cuap2 di sebuah acara bersama pak Hasan Zein, dirutnya Bursa Berjangka Jakarta (BBJ). Mudah2an di kesempatan itu bisa disampaikan informasi yg benar tentang dunia trading di market forex dan futures. Jadi tidak seperti seminar2 bombastis scammers gitu.

Salah satu topik yg saya akan sampaikan adalh tentang bagaimana trading yang (menurut pengetahuan saya) benar. Tidak terjebak pada keputusan2 transaksi yang selalu menyebabkan amblasnya modal, dan tidak terjebak pada iming2 keuntungan investasi yang biasa dijanjikan oleh oknum2 marketin brokers itu.


May 5, 2007

F is for Final

After the sharing session, I do this small change to the algorithm, where it does the money management part of it.

volume = NormalizeDouble(
(AccountBalance()*prm_gearing_ratio)/
(prm_pair_diversify*MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_LOTSIZE)),
prm_lot_resolution);

This will automate the process in determining the position size based on a fixed number of gearing ratio.
I have a 5.33 gearing ratio, this will be the value of prm_gearing_ratio.
prm_pair_diversify will be 2, since the system will be run on two pair: EUR/USD and GBP/USD.
When trading on a mini acct, the MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_LOTSIZE) will automatically return a value of 10,000 or 100k when trading a standard account.
With this piece of code, i dont have to calculate some basic arithmetic on waste papers anymore. LOL.
This version is tagged as vy5f. So the version is StealthTrader_vy5f now. I hope F is for Final. he he he..
Good luck to us !!!

May 1, 2007

The sharing session

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The sharing session went well.
Some good and fresh ideas was given to me so I can improve the system to be more robust.
Although several things like building the system based on some rocket-science-kind-of Neural Network is a bit too unrealistic at this stage, but they shed some lights and adds up to my library of knowledge in my brain. he he he..
I had several old friends in the session like Asrul, Adek, Adit, Mey, Andre, Setyana, Ariel. And more new friends like imelda, remmy, nico, oswald, and several others. There were 22 people.
I disclosed the gears and bolts of the 10th version of the simplified Stealth_Trader System (STS), and then I get many feedbacks to improve it. A final touch, if you like. :-)
For those who are interested in getting the powerpoint presentation file, please contact me.
This time is my turn to share. Next time will be other’s. That way, we’ll move forward faster than if we each work alone.

Thanks, and good luck to us !!
Darma

January 24, 2007

To be the first

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Risenberg has been appointed by TGF WN as partner in their development to be the first futures trading firm in Indonesia who adapt mechanical trading system into their portfolio.

The first step is to conduct basic-to-advanced training sessions for TGF’s trader team. The next step would be to implement several Risenberg’s mechanical trading systems into TGF’s trading practice.

There will be several problems to be resolved within this implementation stage which includes the cost of trade, the execution of automated trading signals into TGF’s trading terminal, etc.
All these process have been started from December 2006.

Wish us luck :-)

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