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BTW Ensign's playback function is great, i advise you al to try it if you 're still paper trading or testing strategies/methods. You could try it for 7 days, and $40 a month after that, and it is 100% worth the money.

I read somewhere that it is possible to set up ensign with a IB data feed. You need metaserver for that, you can use their demo (just 2 quotes) for free. But untill now i don't know how to set this thing up.

cheap charting www.livecharts.com 10 min delay , pay $10 extra for realtime.

Do you guys know if sierrachart saves IB's yesterday data? So when you close the program after the market close and open it next day at the open, is yesterday's data lost? Thanks Bora

What happens if i have to restart my pc? Will Sierrachart plot the chart for these 'lost' minutes? (datafeed=IB)

What do you think is better: Sierrachart ($40 six months) or Medved Quote tracker? Sierrachart looks good, but if you can get the same stuff for free, why pay?

Just download the software and press the free trial button. You can only use data of three stocks (IBM,MSFT,DJI).

The book ' daytrading into the millennium' mentions this strategy. If the buy/sell imbalance is equal or more then 10% of the average daily volume go long/short asap and get out with a MOC.

What amount of money would you suggest to have in your account for 1 contract (daytrading) to feel safe? $5000? more?

I have never traded e-minis before, just stocks and option. Now i want to start trading e-mini Nasdaq-100 and e-mini S&P500 futures. But i am confused about the margin requirements. Looking at CME website i found: initial margin req NQ: $2,250 and maintenance req. $ 1800. Does this mean...

I looked at historical data and wrote on a paper what my entry & exit would be using this system. I started at year 97 and stopped in 99, my conclusion was that it was worthless. It missed the big moves in 97, 98 and 99. I haven't tried 2000, 2001, and 2002 YTD because it felt as a waste of time.

Thanks guys for the replies! Peri, Did you tested this MA system? Are you trading it?

I know a lot of traders use MA's and a lot traders find them useless. My question is when your trading is based on crossing MA's, how do you know when they cross? In theory, backtesting MA crossovers is easy because you know exactly that the two MA's have crossed. But in real life you don't...