Recent content by AndrewL

Esignal doesn't have very good backtesting so I went and tallied up the last couple months trading XTL breakouts on the SP500 on a 5 minute chart. You would've made about 270 points in Jan and 105 in Feb with no losses greater than about 5 points even without a stoploss? The trend indicator...

I get the feeling that though Tradestation is better Advanced GET is much simpler to use. Is this true? Does tradestation have all the proprietary indicators like esignal does or do you have to program them in yourself? Also I've lost some money trading overly complicated strategies. I've...

Can you give me an example of software superior to GET? What about pricing? $2995 is fairly inexpensive when you consider it's only $60/month after that.

What's wrong with advanced get? I shelled out $2995 but still have 3 weeks to return it, so if you recommend TradeStation or something else instead...... I've found the advanced get trend signals to be unbelievably accurate. Using the XTL breakout seems to yield about break even/slight gain...

I should've shorted this puppy around $50.50 but I had decided to short Toll Brothers instead. When Toll Brothers started rallying I entered my RIMM positing at $49.50ish. What a perfect chart! The esignal community has been making a killing off RIMM both short and long. It was on the watch...

Any suggestions for what software and brokerage I should consider using to try automated trading?

After purchasing esignal's advanced GET it's apparent to me that good software really is a huge advantage. So I was wondering about the next step. Has anyone heard of individuals trading "professionally" without actually doing a thing having their software execute all the trades on it's own...

I was thinking about buying some SP500 puts both as a speculative play and also to protect my long position. Puts are fairly cheap right now with the VIX at 46. So them I thought of something. My puts would be priced April 730 on the assumption the market will not hold the November bottom...

The unexpectedly wild variations in intraday moves shows this is a very important and potentially profitable issue! Does anyone have more general historical data? I think it's very important for every day trader to know. If a significant amount of the market's gains were made intraday you...

Reaver, I hear you. I'm a Vault 101 escapee myself. At 31 some might think I'm a little to old to play practically every RPG and Strategy game out but when you're self employed you have a lot of free time. In all seriousness you might trade better by relieving some of the stress. I've...

You sometimes see the brokerage trading desks where the traders are glued to their 5 monitors all day. Is this really necessary? I don't know what time frame they're trading but to me if you're going to hold from near the open to near close it may even be counterproductive. I used to follow...