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I am truly shocked at the bitter attitude of you people. A master trader wants to share his knowledge and all you do is rip him!?! You saw the picture. HE OWNS A JAGUAR!!! What more proof do you need? And trdrmac...the answer to your question is so obvious. The Pin Prick System is so...

NetProfit, You are perhaps mixing some terms which is making it hard to understand what you are doing. You said the system is intraday, which implies that it is flat at the end of each trading session. Yet as 3dog points out, the system averages 2700 bars in the winning trades. Assuming a...

NetProfit, It would be alot clearer if you post the results for the single contract version of your system. The summary shows a max of 38 contracts, but does that mean it trades 38 on each trade? Or did it start with 1 and compound its way up to 38? The unknown number of contracts makes it...

That system did well moving into the December holiday period. I knew it was going to be choppy during the holiday, so I stopped trading the system. In January, I began monitoring its trades again, and was going to resume trading when it returned to "normal". Hmmm....It never happened! :( I'm...

rcreal, Those results look very nice. I like "1 trade a day" ideas, because they are often easy to integrate with other systems to give you some diversity and hopefully smooth out the equity curve. A couple of questions: Did you do your testing on $NDX or ND futures? How does the system...

Was the actual volume traded higher, or just the bid/ask depth? Watch for awhile and you will see lots of 500 contract surges on the bid/ask 2 or 3 ticks away from the current market. These big contract blocks then disappear before price reaches them. My guess is that big boyz are trying to...

Apparently, in their effort to follow the successful CME E-mini path, CBOT has eliminated the exchange data fees for these products for all vendors, not just IB. I am able to bring up the YJ and YM contracts on esignal now, whereas I could not previously. I never heard about this from esignal...

"Now you can trade 4 contracts with a $10k account instead of just 3! ;-) " I know Aaron is kidding here, but seriously, I never understood why people get so concerned about the margin requirements for ES/NQ trading. The leverage of these contracts is already huge! If you are any good at...

"Also is using the DJIA index reasonable for charting to test some strategies ? " Depends on your timeframe. If you are trading 30 or 60m bars, the index would be an acceptable surrogate for developing your trading system. Just be sure to toss in a healthy dose of slippage when you factor...

Oh, gotcha. You said that earlier, so I immediately started thinking "1 NQ" and forgot about the 20 $NDX. Its interesting that your results dont differ much between NDX and NQ. Most systems have trouble converting from the cash index to the futures because of either the noisier nature of...

DT, Anomoly's system has an average trade of $53, so you can deduct whatever slip/commish you think is appropriate. Anomoly trades with IB, so commish is $5 r/t. I dont know how his system enters the market, but it exits with a limit order, so no slippage there. Missed trades perhaps, where...

DT, I would be very careful about trading based on the results of your tests. Unless I'm reading the reports wrong, it looks like some of the systems have under 50 trades for a test period of many years. That is an awfully small sample size. You are testing on multiple markets, which helps...

I have been using TS2000i to trade via eFloorTrade.com for about 3 weeks now. Their autoXecutor interface is still in development, and I had a few rough patches early on. But I tweaked my code a little, and they updated their program, and it has worked pretty well lately. I will say...

I run TS2k, esignal (data and charting) and a ton of other appplications at the same time on my P3 800, 512, Win2k. Rock solid. I dont see why MB Navigator should create a problem for you. TS itself isn't a hog, but certain parts of it can be. First, turn off "update every tick" for...

The ultimate irony is that the title for this thread says "On Topic", which is now so very far from the truth.

I dont recall if the price was $5.95 or $6.95. I wrote the number down at the office, but I dont recall exactly. I just know that it was competetive. And that is round-turn. I *assume* that is all fees inclusive, but I didn't ask specifically, so caveat emptor. I will say this...you call...

I am in the process of opening an account a www.efloortrade.com specifically for the purpose of using their TS autoexecutor system. If this thread is still going after I have made a few trades with efloortrade, I will report back on how it is going. The fellow at efloortrade I talked to...

Kicking, Anyone who gets 20 point profits with 3 pt stops is a true master :) There was some discussion a few weeks ago about the oddball system, which trades SP on a 30m chart. You might read there. The thread was called "Trading system development" or something. Yannis, I would like...

neo, I'm not an ensign user, but I suspect the point of their demo symbol is to give you a 24 hour always moving data feed. So you can test your indicators and studies realtime, anytime. To that end, they provide a noisy signal with a decent trend component, to satisfy both chop and trend...

Remember, oddball is "always in"...it only switches from long to short and back to long. So there is a tradeoff between being having more confirmation of your next trade being in the right direction, and letting profits slip away from the current trade. "when ROC is less than 1, say...