Recent content by elaskaris

Two things to research if you are planning to buy and hold UCO: 1) Contango 2) Leveraged Decay Both factors eat the value of your investment if you don't understand them. I am not expert enough to give you an in depth explanation, but a little internet research will open your eyes to how...

Someone earlier in the thread asked about a book to check out. I highly recommend "Fibonacci Analysis" by Constance Brown. The book is not terribly well written but the content is excellent. Once you get a feel for the techniques she intoduces in the book and apply them to your charts, you...

Hilarious. I Love the whole "if you just say it, then it makes it so" approach of the Obama B*tt- munching media. The only place Obama will lead us is into hopeless debt and some form of socialism/fascism. Where will this douch-bag Cafferty be then? Probably telling us how awesome our new lives...

Couldn't agree more. I laughed out loud.

To clarify what TUMS alludes to in his response: your data provider provides the split adjustment. Free Quotes does not do this. I upgraded to Esignal End-of-Day (EOD)for higher quality split-adjusted data (about $30 per month). Intra-day data is available but only after the trading day is over...

Hey all, Ideally I would like the ability to add a trailing stop once a condition is met (e.g., Add 3% trailing stop when price exceeds 20). Currently IB seems only to accept Conditional orders based on Market or Limit order types. Any ideas how I can accomplish my goal in some other...

Hey all, Ideally I would like the ability to add a trailing stop once a condition is met (e.g., Add 3% trailing stop when price exceeds 20). Currently IB seems only to accept Conditional orders based on Market or Limit order types. Any ideas how I can accomplish my goal in some other...

On the recommendation made in this thread I tried the "Market System Analyzer" v3.1 from Adaptrade. I have to say that I'm very impressed. It's a pretty slick piece of software and does a whole lot more than just monte carlo simulation. Actually the new update, as noted above, adds...

Andrew, Thanks for the heads up. So after a reboot you can turn your strategy back on and continue trading (if it was holding a position at the time of connection loss)? It would be nice if the currently held position could be closed automatically by the strategy. For those of us with...

Multicharts has a portfolio backtester. Multicharts also uses EasyLanguage so you probably only need minor modifications to move your code over from the older platform.

You are correct. At this time there is no way to re-sync your autotrading strategy with your IB account when it times out for any reason (computer reboot, power failure, internet hiccup). Essentially your Marketposition variable is automatically reset to "0" (meaning you hold no position)...

After some more research, I've seen people representing themselves as "experienced autotraders " recommending OpenQuant. Several times I've seen posts refering to it as "the most complete platform for autotrading." Right now I'm trying to gauge how painful it's gonna be to learn C# from...

Hey all, I'm currently a Multicharts user, but their autotrading is still under development, so I am looking at Amibroker, but I have a question for experienced users. If a strategy is being autotraded and you are currently long a position when service is interrupted (power outage...