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Xbaha, I have been writing trading strategies for about 30 years now. I will tell you the secret – not all price data is the same. That is why most strategies do not work in other markets or time intervals. Unless a strategy trades, at minimum, very basic trends it does not have a chance of...

The mutual fund industry for years cajoled investors with the “90% of investors lose in spectacular fashion” BS. Every newsletter for the last 50 years from Fidelity to T. Rowe Price is filled with warnings to investors to stay the course or risk losing their shirts. There is a good reason...

Well here is my guess. Hedge funds were unwinding huge positions using programmed selling. On the opposite side domestic equity funds were buying into all of the selling because they had a net inflow from investors last month they were putting to use this week. The net result was an orderly...

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In my 40 years of IT I have never heard of reverse engineering the actual data. I have reverse engineered programs and data designs but never the data itself because there is no logical design attached to data. In Y2k my crew reverse engineered old compiled object modules on mainframes back into...

Would you mind sharing with us what platform this is?

Then there is the opposing point of view. Who wants to be short over Memorial Day weekend?:D

I was wrong. I tested Multicharts using: [IntrabarOrderGeneration = true] and it worked great intrabar.

For some reason traders believe they are the only ones destined in this world to fail as a business group. Traders have this idea that this 90% failure rate applies just to them. Read this: “Starting a small business is always risky, and the chance of success is slim. According to the...

An older thread on this subject http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=163574&highlight=rabbitone+consecutive+losses

What you ask for... http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/05/16/corrections-corporation-of-america-shares-plunged-.aspx

What all successful traders eventually find out is that their “edge” in the markets is a form of artificial intelligence that is unique to them alone and has its own trading characteristics. In the process of discovering this “edge” each trader develops a rules based expert system to...

Update: The problem listed above was solved. When I was in Quote Manager trying to add the CLM1 symbol from data Source (which was IB) it did not recognize CLM1 as a valid contract. This brings up a list of CL contracts but does not have CLM1. In addition these contracts are apparently...

Reliability doesn’t seem to be the issue. For all of the stocks I have download I have not had any problem. However, IB providing the correct data to Multicharts with some instruments does seem to be a big problem. Today when I download CL contracts for 2011 into Quote Manager they are...

MultiCharts to my knowledge doesn’t use ‘look inside bar’ processing. MultiCharts does have a Bar Magnifer feature. But I am not sure they are the same. MultiCharts is not a data provider. You have to use another data source. The data I use is provided by IB through their API to...

Multicharts does accept most of EasyLanguages format. There are a few minor differences. But all of my EasyLanguage strategies run without a problem in MultiCharts. :D

My basic discretionary trading method is: 1) Screen a select bunch of stocks in the daily time frame for predefined signals. 2) Pick the intraday set ups for entry, exit and target (the best looking from the screen). 3) Execute OCOs if the market cooperates and then manage the trades. My...

You are right. If Microsoft doesn’t consume companies with its cash its investors will demand higher and higher dividends from the cash hoard.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/264873-the-potential-for-a-flattening-yield-curve-and-stock-market-reaction

Glad your trading had a silver lining!