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Wireless DSL is different, you can access it as long as you have line of sight to the transmitter, could be many miles.

Cheaper commish on first 500 shares than IB. Mytrack, from the same company, works pretty well and programmers say good things about their API.

I'm going the automation route with oversight by myself on all forms of trading I engage in. I miss long term trades because I am working on the development of short term systems, miss short term trades because of conflicts in work schedule, etc. Finally I decided that the man for the job is a...

I don't think IB is going to help you much with system development. There are automation interfaces to software packages like Tradestation, Wealth Lab, etc., that will allow you to automate trading with IB. See Tradebolt and DynaOrder.

Tradestation's data for stocks is second tier. They get it from SP Comstock same as quote.com. Until they are getting their data directly from the exchanges I'm not going anywhere near them for trading. They get their data from the exchanges for some products but not stocks. I'm using TS2000...

Thanks for the page. I have had the idea to experiment with a bollinger band based on an ema instead of the simple moving average, didn't know there was a band based on ema till now. Max

They like to see their name up in pixels.

Some say NeoTicker is the best, I'm leaning in that direction myself but Tradestation is .... addicting? ... Familiar?, not sure what keeps me there. Probably too much trouble to learn something new. Max

For sure. To quote Bollinger himself "prices tend to run from one band to the other". Max

Troops are still in Eastern Europe from the Clinton era, how come nobody is interviewing them??

Most wealth winds up in the hands of old women. Their hubbies work themselves to death and then leave it to them. My job is robbing old ladies with nice cute young money manager guys. Max

I use TS2000 and use the Easy Language arrays to build longer term data out of 1 minute bars. Then I write strategies and backtest in exactly the fashion that you say cannot be done. It cannot be done in TS4 but in TS2k and maybe the later versions it is not only done, it is not all that hard...

The best thing to do in my opinion, and I am speaking from experience, is to set some very, very lofty goals without time limits, then set some intermediate goals that have to be reached to get to the lofty ones, and then keep a list of daily tasks that need to be done in order to get to the...

Why don't you just go over to the book review section of ET and review the book? Max

Thanks for the link, interesting article.

Santa Barbara for the perfect environment. San Francisco is brisk and people dress pretty well and there is plenty to do. If you like Irvine then maybe San Diego weather would be the ticket. Max

Yup. California is going to be a nice place for a trader to live eventually but there won't be many jobs. I'm looking at Santa Barbara as the premiere place to live, maybe San Francisco area, maybe both if I have the bucks. Environuts blocked every permit for a power generation station for...

Right, people always come in with "this great new book" or "this great new trading site" and it's always "let's sit around the campfire and just have a great time bonding and learning". They usually trash anybody that does not want to play along too but some are "smarter" and they post...

Yup, but when you do a wire transfer you agree that if the money does not get to your account you are responsible without recourse!! Max

If he thinks the book is probably no good why should he add something positive? Max