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thanks compisnada - what is your j-trader system doing? is it a black box? broker is the place to be, it sounds.

Basically, tradestation so far has told me that the best trade I can make is NO trade. I'm rapidly concluding that I'm better off not trying to replicate my intelligence in "easylanguage". Or maybe I'm just not that intelligent...

You sound frustrated too Gnome. I was vague. What I'm wondering is how you program a SR strategy. Using pivots that define ranges?

I'm a new trader with good programming skills. I did discretionary etf trading for a month, but got frustrated after a month of hovering around breakeven. I set up tradestation to enhance my research about 10 days ago and have quickly reached programming proficiency on this platform...

thanks very much for the great info folks.

Thanks, It's good to hear positive feedback since I'm most likely going that route. Very useful info, thanks. The big questions at this point are: Can a strategy give signals based on events happening in multiple charting timeframes? Will I be able to test on intraday data going at...

You all sound pretty with-it. I'm choosing my first system. Are you mechanical traders? Should I go with Tradestation? As an aside, in my first month, cnbc has only ever led me astray...

Thanks both of you for very helpful answers. To clarify the comission question, you answered it for me, I just wanted to know if I could set it to one value for all trades. Regarding the ability to size test trades as a % of account capital, what I want to do is have each trade = a fixed % of...

Experienced Tradestation users, I'm considering which backtesting/optimization package to go with as a beginner and have a few questions on Tradestation. Wealth-Lab appears to have attractive optimization charts and massive flexibility, but the ease of data collection is holding me back. If...