Recent content by bigyield1000

Thanks, Andrew. I'm going through the EasyLanguage tutorial. It's a bit of a learning curve initially, but I suspect once I can make modifications to the supplied indicators and signals I'll find it was all pretty easy. At that point I'll then be able to really test MC in the way I would...

I'd really like to be able to try MultiCharts. MultiCharts' PowerLanguage is supposed to be fully compatible with TradeStation's EasyLanguage. On this TSS support page http://www.tssupport.com/support/tutorials/ the MultiCharts user is referred to TradeStation's Getting Started with...

I was hoping to get lucky and find exactly the strategy I was looking for already supplied with MultiCharts so that I wouldn't have to do anything in PowerLanguage. Ok, so I see that SetExitOnClose is easily added to the end of the code. I'd also like to modify the 2-line MA system such...

I'm just trying to get up and going with a simple 2-line MA crossover automated trading system. Specifically, I'd like a 2-line SMA crossover system, one entry at the close of the bar on every crossover, and then exit the position at the end of the session. The MA crossover systems...

You're right. I thought IDEALPRO was only for larger transactions, and that IDEAL was for smaller transactions. Now that I've entered the currency trading pairs as market data lines using IDEALPRO as the exchange, I'm able to also pull up the corresponding charts.

This may answer at least some of the charting questions. The questions, which aren't really clear from the initial post, are, 1. When trading currency pairs, how do you get a chart of the tick by tick data to be displayed in IB? 2. IB indicates four different symbols for the March...

My active trading account is with Interactive Brokers, where I've been trading stocks and equity options. I'm now reading and learning about futures and currency trading, but none of the material I'm reading gives examples of how to trade these instruments on IB. For charting, I've been...