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Index Scalping Client questions: Several IB front-in clients have a feature that will enter the trade with a Limit order and then 'chase' the bid/ask until the order if filled. The goal is to improve the fill price compared to always entering the order at the market. The approaches used...

Interesting thread... I wasted 2 years on Neural Nets. I purchased a lot of software including packages from BioComp, Ward and Braincell. The best package that I used was SNNS. It was best because it had the best documentation, user interface and examples, runs on Linux and Windows, and...

Have you looked at http://spreadsheet.google.com? Just released last month but not bad. Moving some trade tracking stuff there so it is always backed up and available everywhere I go.... Cannot replace desktop Excel for strategies but for tracking and building small 'calculators' it looks...

http://www-ra.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/SNNS/ Best open source NN out there in my opinion. If you cannot put together the data to drive it or cannot go through the documentation the chances of getting any kind of positive result is less than zero. (IMHO) However, if you just gotta...

http://www.propfx.com/overview.html#Why_PropFX Don't use them. But interesting... Good luck.

Another contest for FX is at http://www.fxcm.com/fxpc-trading-contest.jsp They trade real money for a month and then post the trades used in the contest. I thought it was interesting to see how the winners each month were making their money. they had another contest at...

Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets: "Go sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up."

http://tradermike.net/ inverviewed in this issue of Stock & Commodities Mag. http://maoxian.com/ http://www.thekirkreport.com/ Kirk is on vacation but a good informal view of the markets... Good luck!

Here is the definition of Dakota swarm technology from your web site: Sounds like a textbook description of GA technology. Anyone reading this description would say this is a hill-climbing optimization algorithm of the Genetic algorithm type. If not how does it differ? BioComp has been...

By his own admission, this is June and he is just breakeven with his last trade. Sorry. .... Not necessarily, it could be just poor judgement... Agreed! Enjoy the weekend!!!!:)

Not a great endorsment of ET... Interesting, roberk, if you think he is one of the better 'thinkers on ET' how would you rate his trading ability? Thank you

You can find a lot of presentations at http://flix.ino.com/preview/ About $20 a month. Not much has been added over the last 10 years that is not here. Vendors like TradersInternational are just repackaging stuff that is here for a fraction of the cost. A lot of junk, but some good stuff...

Other reasons to quantify your edge it to be able to know when it no longer exists and to size your position according to the strength or weakness of the edge. A useful metric can be calculated very easily. A simple description on how to identify when to stop trading if the edge stops...

Post your project needs and folks will bid for the work at www.elance.com. You can find someone to do the entire web kit very cheap. Bids from all over the world so you can 'outsource' your stuff just like the big guys! Or... good logos at http://thelogocompany.net/ The photos you...

Thank you for the posts. A guide through JH land is helpful! How do you enter at pt 3! Do you wait for volume to confirm? Can you point me to JH doc that explains entries? Thanks again. Thanks to CL as well for the thread!

I have been using the google notebook for a week or so and like it. I think the Google notebook is best when used with the Firefox browser plugin. I am moving my trading journal to it, was using Microsoft OneNote... This Tuesday google released their spreadsheet web application. It is...

At Golden Gate University you can get a Graduate Certificate in Technical Market Analysis. http://www.ggu.edu/academic_programs/financial_planning/graduate_certificates#G21719802 That is the only program I know of... Good luck

Thank you very much. I will go through your thread in more detail. All the best! Good trading this week!

Of the hundreds of posts read on this subject your last two are the best. Reasonable, intelligent with no axe to grind that I can see. Thank you for the posts. All the best,

Hi Oddi, Just a question if you do not mind. What do you mean by 'the methods do work'? What 'method' are you referring to? Is this the rockets (a.k.a MACD/Stoch) trading equities? Or, is it the unique Hershey methods of channel drawing, R2L, L2R, R2B, B2R, etc. etc. trading the...