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    Questions about Saxon Financials

    I try to ask these questions via saxon's email, but they are not responding, also their site was down last few days. I really look forward to start working at a prof firm. Please someone provides the answers to the following questions: What is the commission and desk fee structure at Saxon...
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    how much data is needed for backtesting?

    Thank you guys! I got a lot of useful thoughts from reading your posts. Now I will try to get more data to include different phases of the market, then I will have to redo the parameters part. My system has probably done a lot of curve fitting since the net profit was the only thing I looked at...
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    how much data is needed for backtesting?

    It's an intraday system. What is EOD? I don't have much experience with trading stocks. I only focus on future, and this system is designely solerly for YM. I have backtested it on ES, and it was profitable, but it doesn't apply too well. If I ever use it to trade other products, I will have to...
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    how much data is needed for backtesting?

    There's another thing I worry about is the optimisation. The performance of the system is 5 times better with the optimisation. There are 4 time zones for trading in this system, and each use the same indicators for entry and exit, but the parameters are different. Those parameters were found...
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    how much data is needed for backtesting?

    I have developped a "profitable" system upon ym's last 3 months of data (from 9th Mars to First Juin). The percent profitable is 40.87% and the profit factor is 2.1. While the performance report looks all beautiful, I know that this isn't reliable yet since the amount of data is quite limited...
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    Questions about TradeStation, EasyLanguage, backtesting...

    I'm considering to switch from IB to TradeStation, but I want to make sure about the following first. Is there any other program comparable to EasyLanguage ? Can EasyLanguage be used without TradeStation, like if I have the intraday data on an Excel Sheet, would I be able to do...
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    Is it possible to backtest strategies if I'm with IB?

    Yea, i have thought about excel, it's doable and I will simply collect my own data and buy some. But if EasyLanguages seem to make everything easier, I will see whether I can purchase something like that and capable of reading data on excel sheet.
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    Is it possible to backtest strategies if I'm with IB?

    From "Trading as a Business", by Charlie Wright (http://www.elitetrader.com/tr/index.cfm?s=17), I read that he uses Tradestation and EasyLanguage to backtest his strategies. However, I'm with Interactive Broker, and I don't think I can switch to Tradestation that easily since I live in Canada. I...
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