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I noticed strange problems the other day after I signed upto Radarscreen. Tradestation keeps hanging when I bring up a chart. Either I have to wait several minutes for TS to 'come back' or I have to kill it and restart. Also radarscreen hangs. Admittedly I do have about 230 stocks which is...

Yet no reply from Tradestation reps here on Elitetrader!! Maybe they agree with this thread too! Splat

chinook, Why are you fedup with Tradestation (for the sake of those of us who use TS7) ? Regs, Splat

My post seemed rather negative so I thought I would clarify. I am very happy with the machine - infact this is my 2nd laptop I have bought from Dell. I will definitely buy from them again...

I bought a top spec dell laptop in Sept last year over the telephone from dell. I was supposed to get an extra power adapter as part of a 'deal'. Everything else got delivered. The sales person kept fobbing me off until Jan. That was when I threatened to contact the head office.

Checkout www.tssupport.com They are bringing out a new util soon (OwnData). This apparently allows you to use 3rd party datawith TS7. They are in beta testing which you can sign up for - personally, I am waiting for the real thing. Regs, Splat

I think you have misunderstood. That is another reason you should go back to basics and read the manual. The function will return you a value based upon the inputs to the function, which is the length you are looking at for your moving average. It is then upto *you* to generate the signal...

If you mean an entry or exit signal then you have to create a strategy. In TS2K you have to create a signal using powereditor and then add the signals into a strategy. In TS6/7 you have to create a strategy document and then add the signals code which calls the functions straight into the...

If you look carefully the function is at the top and the indicator is *also* given at the bottom of the page :) You need to create two separate easylang docs - one of function type and one of indicator type in tradestation.

In defence of Tradestation: I dont know why you have had these problems. When I phoned the sales ppl I was sent a link to the pdf forms. I printed the forms, completed them, and then faxed them off. The accounts (equities and futures) were created very quickly. I am extremely happy. No...

Is this a riddle or advice?

Thanks a lot for everyone who replied. All the information is very useful. Regards, Splat

Have a look at the search faciity here. There is a lot of info on optimization. Regards, Splat

Forgot to add that I am using a 30min timeframe.

Thnx for your reply. That was the kind of thing I was thinking already. I have written a system to initially trade on the dow which generates 5-6 swing trades per month. The win ratio is at least between 60-100%. The system finds the possible trades which have the biggest momentum...

Wasnt the market in an uptren at that time? When the market is in a trend I can well understand doing optimizations every few months but in an environment such as we have today, surely we need to do reoptimize more often? Splat

What is a reasonable period for a system be reoptimized? 1 week? 2 weeks? 3 weeks? 1 month? 3 months? 6 months? Why am I asking this question? Well the market behaviour and general sentiment seems to change continuously every few days , trends seem only to last a few days. So I was...

doh sorry i misunderstood. My name should be klutz instead!

Isnt this one of the reasons to use stops ?

Thanks but I've seen the website. I was looking for opinions from people who may ave tried them or know of people who have tried them.