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Thanks Toni, for that analysis! :p

The Wealth-Lab site uses the WL software and can scan for trades, but it has limited features and can only be used on delayed data. The W-L software you buy (WL Developer) that runs on your computer does not come with data, so you must use Yahoo (free) or your own data source. The real power...

Here's your long system in Wealth-Lab. It has a 10% profit target and 5% stoploss like the spreadsheet on your site. With starting capital $100,000, $5K trade size, 0.01/share commission, it barely breaks even over the last 5 years on the stocks in the SP500. System...

It's hell to try and cancel dang near any of those electronic sub deals. They puposely hide the cancelation procedure and most of the time make you call them. Easy to sign up online, hard to cancel. The bastids...

You could say they're "Mad Money" and I'm not going to take it... Sorry for the Cramer reference, but could his rise to his old sputtering, screaming, bug-eyed self "helping" the small investor be a sign of a top? :D

Something like this? (Remove comments for shorts and add comments to longs to do the short trades. I like to see each side, to determine if shorting is worth it. It usually isn't) FWIW, a close stop like 10% always kills profits IMHO... {$NO_AUTO_EXECUTE} var Bar: integer; var...

The "RiskArb Story?" :p

Looks a little too good for an SMA system on an index. Everybody and their brother has beat them to death. Make sure your buys and sells happen on a future Bar (Bar + 1) and you properly account for friction like commission and slippage. And a greater than 70% losing rate means you have...

You certainly made a good trade with the long DJ! But I've found that an underlying move of 10-12% (for stocks) over 20-40 days is a good spot to take, at least some, profits. Trying to get more than that has cost me too many times! Reverses come fast and furious... Good trading to you...

JMHO, you can make a buck with long-only option trades as an underlying sub. That is, if you have a good system with an edge that gets you in at the proper time. It's a tough trade sometimes (most of the time!), but it can work out... But not if you don't take profits after you get a good...

gould banned another 'surfer ID gone... :p And what happened to his new "Shorting Goog" thread? That one could have been fun.

This would be easy with Visual Basic or C#, etc, and IB. Or just VB/QuoteTracker and another quote source. You need to program it, of course, so I s'pose that could be called re-inventing... :D

Try here: http://www.wealth-lab.com/cgi-bin/WealthLab.DLL/browsechartscripts

Thank you Joe! That is indeed a relief. I'd hate for ET to lose all independence. Good day to all. C :cool:

First, a disclaimer - I've been with Interactive for years and I like them. They have been a very good broker for me and one of these days I'll write a review for them. IMHO they are the best broker by far for my type of automated trading. That said, I noticed a recent negative IB rating is...

Hmmm, there used to be a member called "LongShot" that misspelled it on purpose, but I think the other 18,456 times it was misspelled here was from general ignoramuses. But I suppose it could be that a group of traders managed to have a couple beers, relax and not trade so pent-up and tight...

Here is a simple to use option calculator where you can change the different parameters like Stock Price, Strike Price, Expiration Date, Interest Rate, Volatility, Euro/American and see the result. Look up some options on your favorite stocks and change some things to see what would happen to...

Well I don't know who gives a chit, but yep. It's true. Just look in any of his books. And this is from Tom DeMark (supposedly) on another board: at the advice of my attorneys, i was instructed to trademark all indicators i discuss and share. given the nature of this business and...

You can certainly trademark patterns and the like. If you read one of Tom DeMark's books, it is distracting the way every single one of his indicators is TD Arc, TD Line, TD Sequential, TD Yadda Yadda Yadda...

I like IB and haven't had the problems that others have had, but to any prospective IB clients this is the situation (IMHO): 1) They WILL hold you to the "standard" electronic trading disclaimer: if you have problems like stuck quotes and "pink" order anomalies, etc, that costs you money -...