Recent content by Norm

Hello, Is it possible to reduce risk to zero or nearly zero by using an entry strategy that is favorable to obtaining some profit (every an extremely small profit) and then placing a stop loss at or near the entry point? Norm

Is there a way to obtain and use Bid and Ask information for common stocks in a TradeStation strategy?

Hello, TradeStation is not designed to trade multiple stocks within a single EasyLanguage strategy. But, can a single strategy be written so that it follows indicators for multiple stocks and executes trades for those individual stocks where trades are indicated? Norm

I believe that using historic data has severe limitation for use in back testing. What happed in the past may not occur again. What is really needed is contrived data that runs an automated trading strategy though its paces so that the strategy's performance during different market...

Hello, I am implementing an automated trading strategy for IB's API. Actually, I have an experienced programmer doing this. My strategy requires about three months of historic data. Ideally, this should be 1-minute bars. Can historic data be obtained via IB's API? If it cannot, how...

I wanted to trade women, but my wife said no.

I currently use TradeStation. Although I am very happy with TS, they do not provide much tick data. Their tick data for stock only goes back 1 to 2 months. If anyone is away of any source of free tick data that goes back significantly more than two months, please let me know. If anyone...

Runningbear, I have a strategy that I am satisfied with. However, I am still trying to determine how to proceed with the implementation. The strategy is alive and well as written in EasyLanguare and running on TradeStation. I want to execute trades with IB because of their lower...

I have provided a list below that attempts to rank different ways to automate trading according to their degree of sophistication. That is, the list is meant to be ordered with the least capable systems at the bottom and the most capable systems at the top. I appreciate that the...