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Well first, I gotta send a big thanks to Jack. I have learned a ton from reading a big pile of his stuff. The funny thing is, I am not using stochastics or MACD right now at all, but I have still learned alot from what he has to say. I am actually using a custom oscillator that isn't closely...

I think you can also make the indicators only update at the end of a bar in esignal. Somewhere in the options or maybe the efs settings. I would check for you, but I am at work.

I've just noticed it the last 2 days. Very annoying. I totally dig their charting, but if their quotes are going to do that I'm dumping them.

Thanks Harry. Good post. I'm a big believer in the power of rituals. I have to disagree with "no negative thoughts" part though. I'm more of a realist. As Tony Robbins says, what good does it do you to ignore the weeds in the garden? "There are no weeds! There are no weeds!"...

The chair post got me thinking about this. Humans are highly affected by environment. I am a firm believer in stacking the odds in my favor every way I can. Here are a few things I have tweaked to attempt to give myself every edge possible. Any of these may need to be tweaked and could...

The Aeron is definitely the way to go for the chair. I've had one for a year that I got from a high techfirm-gone-bust for a song.

I'm not entirely disagreeing with you here, Harry. Ideally one would understand exactly why their system is successful. I think a system can be robust though without understanding exactly why and how it works. I don't have the scientific background that you guys do, but I do have a strong...

Great discussion so far guys. Harry, I think you are taking this down the "academic" path. I personally don't care if the patterns that my brain sees exist or not. If I can make money training my brain to see flying purple turtles, then by golly I'm going to look for the turtles. This...

I think this is a great way to build your system. You need to start with one solid piece to build on. What I am trying to do is find *MY* way to view the market. Most of the folks here on ET will say you don't need any indicators, just price, S/R, and trendlines. I am finding some...

More data is better than less, IF the data is still relevant. The argument could be made that the market has changed enough in the last couple of years that the data from that long ago may not produce valid backtesting results. I would definitely at least weigh the results from the last few...

Gotta disagree. The main problem as I see it is that most programmers with many years of experience learned on a Unix type platform. Programming for Windows environments is quite a bit different. I learned to program in Windows environments and working on projects with these old school Unix...

When you open a chartscript or simulator window, there is a setting for how many bars you want to go back. If you set that to 250 bars, then that is what is used for Barcount (maybe 249, I forget). The loop is to loop through each of these bars and to test your script against them. A breakout...

This is called a Box. It used to be illegal for stocks. Not sure about anything else. And not sure if it is still illegal.

ADX_Trader, you might be trading a style that is incompatible with your personality. Write down a list of your strengths and weaknesses as a trader and see if they are compatible with the trading style you are trying to implement. How can you change your trading rules to still be profitable...

jem, I think you are asking this question on the wrong board. The dominant voice here at ET is the voice of the discretionary trader. Check out Chuck Le Beau's forums at www.traderclub.com, which deal mainly with system development. While they are rather disorganized, you will find alot of...

I agree with most of what you are saying. I gotta say, ET is losing its edge for me. There are alot of people that post here that have good knowledge to share, but it seems most of the time they are more interested in feeding each other's egos (do we really need posts that just say "LOL"?)...

Unless you live in the Pacific Northwest. Then you play golf in the rain.

I have to disagree strongly with this. I started with TN and the commissions ate me alive when starting out with small shares. If you start trading with 200 shares, you need to make 15 cents on the trade to BREAK EVEN. I was hemorrhaging money into the TN coffers. Since moving to IB a few...

Hate to jump in here and alter the course of this thread, but had to interject a bit here. :) Bill Gates is a very generous man with his money. His charity's main goal right now is to eradicate Polio from the world. He spends quite a bit of his time and a big chunk of his money doing it...

My own experience, my co-workers' experience, and extensive research online with other peoples experience. Me personally? That would be 3. I have never seen an Intel chip fail and I have worked with more of them than I have Athlon chips. And no none of them were overclocked. Yes early...