Recent content by ArchAngel

Make sure you enter the symbol as AMEX:DHY Without the exchange prefix it might get misinterpreted as a NYSE symbol and try to resolve it that way by default. It's horribly thinly traded, but I can get a chart for AMEX:DHY on Qcharts

If you're going to try to lock down a particular PC to accessing content from only certain sites, just install a SW firewall on that machine and let it restrict the outgoing connections as you see fit. No need to bother with yet another router or additional hardware. You'll want to spend...

Re: is it safe to browse and chat? I can tell you unequivocally that in all these years none of my machines have EVER been infected - and certainly not from just web browsing. 99% of infections result from users downloading and running software from unknown or questionable sites, getting...

Re: your network drive - as long as your hardware firewall has NAT (network address translation) enabled and you've not enabled any pass throughs you should be insulated from any inbound connections. Of course if one of your local PCs gets infected, the network drive could be subject to...

They are outgoing connections because YOUR machine is establishing the connection to those locations. The direction of the connection has nothing to do with whether you are transmitting, receiving, or both. It's solely based on which side originates the connection request to the other. In...

Doesn't look like spyware and don't jump to conclusions without first considering how web pages are built and composited. The typical web page contains a whole variety of different types of content (not just the text on that page) that is sourced from different locations on the server (i.e...

Do trendlines work? Like every TA tool - they'll work (seemingly scary) great, right up until they fail miserably. It also depends huge on what trendlines (or other TAs) you're looking at. I've seen a lot of trendlines drawn manually on charts by people that don't do a good job of...

The whole "is TRADING sexually inviting" question misses the point. MONEY is sexually inviting. Doesn't matter if you're a trader, consultant, building contractor, restaurant entrepeneur, or salesman. If you're not a royal a$$hole - then if you've got money, you're inviting - if you...

Donchian channels are also often used for stop placement (i.e., set stop for a long below the lowest low of the N last bars) Regardless of method, there's no one size fits all rule that works for all instruments in all timeframes - so you'll want to spend a reasonable amount of time analyzing...

All the principles of something like covertible arbitrage have been documented and in the public domain for decades - yet there are even more profitable firms doing it now than there were ten years ago. It's not as black and white as some have suggested. The problem is that the "if you make...

Yes, but I don't think anyone really said it was specifically about the price of the software - merely that discounting costlier than bare bones was absurb. An expensive self-contained power nailer or a formula one racer is an accident waiting to happen in the hands of someone without...

I would definitely agree that all things being equal the smart thing is to go with the cheaper priced option. It's rare however for all things to be equal :) Unfortuately, there are a lot of new traders who look only at price and don't factor in functionality of their various options -...

If you're not trading real dollars, then you're not "in a biz", you're just mentally masturbating. It's been said time and again on this board - if a few hundred bucks for software/datafeed/etc. is going "kill your biz", then your trading biz is doomed from the start. Good luck.

Possibly because that spread is where they're bleeding you for their profits :)

Depends somewhat on your specific application and needs, but in general I'd have to say that using a DB to store price data is not inherently performance detrimental. One instance I can think of off the top of my head where stream binary files could be better is if your implementation...