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None of the above solutions worked for me. I think the basic problem is you cannot use a 32-bit DLL with a 64-bit application. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. MG I can't believe how awesome ET is. It would have taken me a very long time to figure this out. [/B]

In all fairness, I think it may be prudent to recognize that there's still clearly two different market segments for backtesting and trading platforms, EOD and RT. Most of my frustrations (publically expressed or not) undoubtedly comes from the rather slow integration of both segments into a...

In the Data Server, OpenTick was the only EOD data vender that allowed me to use a * to add from/all available tickers. In fairness, I didn't look at many of the real-time vendors, but my sore experience is they rarely support such a feature. So I'm unclear about what you're saying with the...

Yeah, where is the Open Source charting and trading automation application? It's time is sorely overdue to clean out all the hucksters and promoters in the industry.

Given how similar and innovative-less most platforms are and have been, it's not going to be the platform that makes the difference for non-portfolio level trading. Only a small minority of platforms drive innovation that the rest slowly adopt, if ever. In fairness, 10 years ago...

Indeed, OpenQuat's greatest strength is the event-driven model. It's too bad the rest of the product is uninspiring. It reminds me a lot of TradingSolutions in how slow it is. As with OpenQuant, NinjaTrader unfortunately relies on C# which means huge lines of code to do even the simplest...

You sound like you're trolling -- go read the original "review" for a true bias. Anyway, I don't know what your definition of "disgusting" or even "charts" is, but when it comes to clarity and sharpness, TradeStation, AmiBroker and MultiCharts rank right up there at the top. Anyone can view...

I've been using and/or trialing all of the various trading softwares way back since 1990, so I'd thought I'd give my input to what seems to be a relatively negative-biased "review" on AmiBroker: 1. It is not that difficult to plot indicators or do other things than "just back-testing" in...

See "New Risk-Adjusted Performance Measures" at: http://www.andreassteiner.net/performanceanalysis/?Downloads MG

I've found several problems with IBD and CANSLIM: 1. IBD has a neo-Conservative editorial bias. You just hope that they are as rigorous with their data mining as they are sloppy with their cognitive biases. 2. They engage in historical revision of market calls in The Big Picture. It is...