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The problems you might experience are proportional to the programming skills you have, and the type of strategy you want to automate. like i mentioned before, if you trade 100% indicators, its very easy, you can easily program lets say a ''Macd crossover'' detector, use that as a entry, send the...

its pretty easy actually, 1st you need to copy the NTDIRECT.DLL file from the /ninjatrader 6/bin folder to your esignal folder. You then enable the AT interface in the ninja trader control center ''file'' menu. once that is done, there are commands you can put in your esignal .EFS file...

Theres plenty of software out there to automate trading strategies. Ninja trader is an excellent exemple and you can code strategies directly into it using the C++ programming language. We automated several strategies using esignal scripts that were sending commands to ninja trader to execute...

id say you can esaily put in 10-20 contracts with minimal slippage.

its not the same market segment, not the same companies form these indices. If you watch the 4 main Eminis index futures, ER ER YM NQ, youllsee they are often in synch but never exactly the same. but er packs more bang for teh buck

If you managed to get a 50% hit in one trade, your golden stop loss must be enormous and perhaps too risky to make trading comfortable and / or viable. I If you are dissapointed with the results, will just get worse if you feel youre trading with a gun pointed at your head. Make no...

Best day in my young trading career now, this p&l is from today, using my regular strategy on all 4 majors indexes (ER ES NQ YM) 3 contracts

Im not sure i agree you don't know something others don't. There are no secrets in trading, Indicators have all been done, tried, optimized, all being used someway or another by someone somewhere out there. If you have found ''a cool RSI setup'' that you think is unique, well think again...

its because the market internals like $ADD $TRIN etc are calculated every 6 seconds. nothing to do with the datafeed

i agree, paul works with triangles and range contraction is amazing. the guy trades several markets at once on multiple timeframes, its almost surreal how fast he is.

someone sent me this http://www.etoro.com/ Its a forex trading platform, you wont believe this! they try to sell their stuff with lines like ''you dont need that charts mumbo jumbo and complicated indicators - finally trading that makes sense!'' lol instead they display...

up 400 ER tics net this month im pretty satisfied and 2 days left in the month :)

Depending on how you want to use it as a direction indicator, 14 and .382 std dev, prices must be above if you want to go long and under for shorts etc else, id go with 34 period and 1.618 std dev. for 5 mins charts

Instead of using arbitrary stops, you should be using logical stops, i.e. stops that are adapted to the market volatility. for exemple, if you are going long on some instrument, and the last low was 15 tics away from your entry, placing your stop at or below the last low (so minimum of 15...

I had my best trading day ever today on the ER 4 trades 133.5 tics per contract (2 contracts) stops were pretty huge today, on one position i had it was 54 tics! (i use 2 tics below the last swing high or low as a stop)

mind telling us a bit about your method? no need to go in details as i expect it will be classified info.

with the swings we had last week i believe everybody and their dog made money

martingaling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_%28betting_system%29 according to the series on the wiki site, since he can double up to 5 times only with his current strarting account, chances of failure are 3.125%, too high for me!

the murrey math is a guaranteed failure? Most of the traders ive seen trading the murrey math the way it is taught are doing better than i am :) could you please explain your point of view on the matter (or anyone else please)

because he is a good friend before being a partner, and i need solid reasons to break that partnership, because i am profitable and hes not, and if i leave, hes left with nothing at all. That will cost the friendship part too, quite a delicate situation to manage really. The reason why hes...