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Yes, very true, I could probably do a quick and dirty rendition without Access. However, there are about 300,000 one-minute bars of data for the Globex ES contract. If I wish to do analysis on years of data, text based data will become unwieldy. At the very least, I'd want some sort of...

I'm interested in learning how to tie Excel an Access together to help me simply print out charts of various time frames automatically for the past couple years or so. See attached GIF file for the various charts I am looking to print out. The range from the 2 minute time frame up to the...

Hi NoNonsense, Yes, I do plan on using both Excel and Access together. Access manages the data, while Excel will analyze it. Thanks for the suggestions. -- M

Hello, I'm looking for book recommendations on VBA for Excal and for Access. What I am aiming to do is have Access store my price data, and apply Excel's analysis and charting tools on this data. I'm familiar with programming in C, Pascal, and Basic, but am a bit rusty as it has been...

Thanks for your reply Jai, especially since my question was geared toward trading one futures contract, rather than multiple lots of shares. I'm going to print out your reply and give it some more thought. Have a good day and week! -- MMM

Hi Jai, Thanks for your reply. Can you provide an example of what you mean by Personal Trading Plan? Also, if you are only trading one contract, (1) would you still have a fixed target and exit potentially early (and miss a continued move in your favor), or ... (2) would you look...

Now that Qcharts has rated it's base rate to $99 a month, I am now considering moving to TradeStation for the same rate. TradeStation has the added bonus of backtesting capability. Any comments on TradeStation vs. Qcharts vs. Esignal? Thanks. -- M

Here's my buddy's version of the solution, and his thoughts on dbTraders answer to the challenge. "For now, suffice to say his solution is more elegant than mine (the position #'s do not have to be in a separate column like mine do), and I was unfamiliar with the large function, which I...

dbTrader, Very impressive solution. How long did it take for your to bang this out? I suspect it will be much less time than what it will take me to fully comprehend your solution! U da Excel Man!!!! -- MMM P.S. As the current reigning Excel Champion, I think it'd be fair for...

Can anyone recommend alternatives to Qcharts? Two that have been suggested in the Qcharts Yahoo Group are TradeStation and Esignal Premier. See the link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qcharts/message/39760 They are comparable in price to Qchart Basic's new $95 / month rate. -- M

Here's an announcemet from Qcharts, posted in the Qcharts Yahoo Groups forum at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qcharts/message/39757 Note the price increase announcement at the end of their announcment. ============= From: "quotejoel" <jadvincula@q...> Date: Fri Feb 27, 2004...

You are now definitely running the latest Java environment. Previously, you might not have been, even if you had installed it, depending on where your TWS shortcut was pointing. The nodraw option helped fix a similar problem that I was experiencing between ButtonTrader and TWS -- slow order...

The nodraw option should be helpful in multimonitor configurations, from what I have heard.

Try this: Download and install the latest Java Runtime Environment from Sun. Change the target of the your TWS shortcut to the following: "C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_03\bin\javaw.exe" -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -jar C:\jts\jts.jar C:\jts Having the latest Java RE, and using the...

There may be individual cases where outsourcing does not lower the costs. When speaking of economics however, we are focusing on macro and hence aggregate outcomes, rather than micro and company specific results. In aggregate, I think the chain of outcomes I wrote about is broadly...

Outsourcing results in lower costs to the company, .... which in turn can lower the prices of their products, ..... which in turn allows consumers to spend less money, .... which increases savings, ... which lowers interest rates, ... which makes loans more affordable to...

That's part of the challenge, defining the swings, but impossible. You can tell with your eye what the significant swings are no a chart. Coming up with rules to capture them should not be too difficult. I'm sure that a custom built C or VB program can do this project easily enough. I'm...

Anyone know of backtesting software that can backtest clusters retracements and extension? In other words, it would be able to find all the relevant swings over the max time period specified, whether it be on a monthly, daily, 60, 15, 5 minute chart, and project the retracement and...

Hello, I'm interested in figuring the most popular time frames for day traders. What time frame chart do you use primarily for day trading? If you use more than one, please choose the one chart is that is most important for you. I figure that if we know which time frames are most...

Thanks nkhoi. I'm looking for more than just a scanner tool, but rather a backtesting tool, one that can generate some system trading statistics. Any other thoughts on this? Thanks. -- M