Recent content by Harald

Bratislava is a 1 hour drive from Vienna (50 miles).... just have a look at the tax rates.

Have been living and working in London, Paris, Zurich and Berlin. Some thoughts on this: None of the DAX30 companies has its headquarters in Berlin. Compare to CAC40 or FTSE100. Industry could neither survive 45 years of Communism in the East nor the difficult setting in Berlin West during...

Although pivot levels R3, R4, S3 and S4 are rarely used, I have found three different formulas for them, two of these are also repeatedly mentioned in this forum. So is there anybody who would explain to me, which is the more widely used formula? Here is just an example for R3: Formula 1: R3...

For order execution / semi-automated strategies an alternative would be ButtonTrader. For charting and backtesting you will find quite a number of other programs.

You can easily connect NT to the API of TWS. I did not try NT with QuoteTracker. Why should I connect NT to QuoteTracker and QuoteTracker to a data feed, if I can connect NT directly to a data feed. I am not looking for trouble, so I am not running software chains. Otherwise you cannot...

I am using NT with Interactive Brokers. It is a bit tricky, but in the end it works. I do have some crashes during backfill, which is when I connect. So I do regular backups (several per day) and if necessary restore the data base. NT is a very good piece of software with one major problem...

Definitely agree: IB is a brokerage and not a software company, that means - In the first place I would look for fast, proper and price-competitive order execution - In the second place I would appreciate reliable data feed and backfill You do not need TWS charting: There is a choice of...

I am using monthly pivots on my charts. These are calculated from the data of the previous month. For NYMEX I cannot use them, because half of october is missing. For TF there is also no data for october. For FOREX I cannot calculate pivots because the bars have false timestamps. Forex shows...

All NYMEX futures (also CLZ8, GCZ8 - the main crude and gold contracts traded!): No data is available prior to 16 october. That is when IB had hardware problems. For the november contracts there also were about 3 weeks of data missing. For Nybot futures - some of them are quoted in cents - there...

We should not complain about charting of IB. It is not their main business and they provide a working API that allows you to run hundreds of charting programs, many of them for free. Also the realtime feed is acceptable, although compressed. The real problem is the backfill. It is full of...

Sometimes I tried to connect to 20 instruments realtime and also backfilling them, which occasionally caused NT to lock itself. I guess it is not necessary to do this, so if you just want to trade ES, there won't be a problem.

Open instrument manager and search for ES. The instrument is ES 12-08 and it is preconfigured by NinjaTrader for OpenTick. Edit the instrument, verify that the exchange is set to GLOBEX and make sure that the symbol for OpenTick is set to ES|EM.

First of all, I would not want to compare QuoteTracker and NinjaTrader. QuoteTracker is a nice and intelligently designed little charting tool, which is easy to use. I loved it because of its paint bar capabilities, which are easy to understand even for non-programmers. I used it with IB...

OpenTick is slow during normal hours, for a faster download connect during week-ends. To my experience you can download ES, NQ, YM, currency futures and agricultural futures for free. The free version of NT will automatically save data, so you only need to download the data once.

There is no backfill data for TF today. So today's menu is a choice between no charts (Globex) and empty charts (ICE-NYBOT).