Recent content by SMI

You can have most of what you want with Tradestation. The only major piece they are missing from your list is the language issue. Otherwise, OpenQuant and RightEdge or even ModulusFE may be up your alley but I know just enough about those last three platforms to be dangerous...

If you are looking for software that will use your feed in realtime then you'll have to contact the software provider to build an adapter for you. This is not cheap but if you have a custom feed from the exchanges chances are the cost will be chump change for you. Multicharts is the first one...

Take a look at this link - it's the NFA self examination questionnaire. It contains a lot of material to get you started. As a cta you have to complete the "general" and the "cta" documents. Both docs help you figure out where the holes are in your organization...

I thought it was telling that he went on national TV and said "I was wrong and got out" or something to that effect. How many traders will admit that they are wrong let alone be willing to do it on national TV? I would be curious if he had a predefined stop or just got out when his pain...

And another one: Gold

New Chart: September Cocoa:

Don't they have a trial that you can check out? If so I would strongly suggest that you do so. And, I would ask for an extension of the trial once the initial term runs out. Many of the items I encountered on the platform didn't arise until I started to really REALLY use the product. In my...

haha - I think I'm going to use this as my email signature...

That wheat breakout failed completely. Coffee broke down and stayed down. And Natural gas finally made a good move out of it's rising channel last week. New Chart: Silver - despite last Friday's rally in gold, silver still stayed in its triangle. Looking forward to when this sucker...

Thanks for your response. Your ideas are valid of course. But, for the purposes of this thread I wanted to keep things simple. By expressing the idea the way I did, anyone can pull up a basic chart and see the idea in action without having to put other indicators on the chart or know what a...

Yup - that's one reason why it's not a "system" per se. At 90% win rate - you do get all those winners to make up for the occasionally ugly day. The bigger question is - can you execute and get the fills if you were to even try to systematize this model. Even at 30 points, its still not the...

Actually, for me it makes sense. There's no point in replacing it unless I get a performance increase from it. I have other desktops that work just fine - this is strictly for travel. If I can get a substantial performance boost with an encrypted ssd, I'll take it. But, other than that, no...

Hi: I'm thinking about replacing my HD on my laptop with an SSD - will be doing some traveling soon. Normally, this would be quite straight forward. But, currently, I have the entire thing encrypted. The last time I researched this, it seemed that an encrypted SSD would not offer any...

Macho provided some of the answers to your question above it seems (I just have to ignore some of the irrelevant inflammatory comments in the post). So, as for the "why" - YOU were the one that asked for certain information, remember? I am simply telling you how to get it. I don't make the...