Recent content by thejam

Here is an old ET thread about the scam they call TradingMarkets http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=186058

100% agree. A "real" system must learn to adapt to the imperfect world.

All feeds have bad ticks (period) Learn to adapt to them and filter them yourself. Otherwise when your system is live, it will just blow-up on its first encounter.

All the symbols on your list and more -> http://pitrading.com/intraday_ascii_data_market_edition.htm

I can think of 1001+ reasons PHP will blow-up an automated order system. If you don't believe me, do a search on google for php and automated order execution or some mix of terms. See how many results you get. Thats right: NULL. If not C/C++ try VB. C/C++ is not very different from PHP.

This should work if your file is standard ASCII (date,time,open.high,low,close,volume). But it depends on the source of your data, no guarantees of course. Download pitraders converter here: http://pitrading.com/ascii2nt Drag-n-drop the file on the converter or from the dos prompt type...

Best pivot point calculator on the web. http://pitrading.com/pivot_points Just enter the symbol. No need to manually enter high, low, close like on many other sites.

This book is complete junk like all Connors/Alvarez material. Their newer book, High Prob ETF Trading, is just a copy with a new name. Considering the recycling of their courses and ideas, I can't believe anyone still buys this stuff. Connors should be charged with plagiarism. How many...

Be careful with real-time scanning on your local computer. It is always difficult to scan a large universe of stocks on even the fastest connection. I used realtick in the past for this. Some server based scanners exist that might be better.

Wow!!! 5%

Do you know if AmiBroker can take advantage of multiple cores? With 4 cores so cheap these days, you would think testing software would be using threading.