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I did some asking around before I got my current (Athalon) setup and the feedback I got was that the Athalon is better for more numerically intense operations. I asked my ISP, who does SETI runs. He has two machines that he uses for this: a twin cpu setup running 2x 2.0 P4's; and a single...

512MB is the minimum required IMO. If it's tweaking you want, check out www.blackviper.com and look for XP Tweaks in the left sidebar - good sensible Services configuration.

I have been using Pinnacle Data (www.PinnacleData.com) for a few years and they are excellent. Around $12/month, clean data with 3 choices of back-adjustment.

Firstly, any statistic is only meaningful in a specific situation. My situation is that of a position trader in commodities. That said, my target is to grow my trading account by 50% each year. Some years I manage this, some years not. As others have said so eloquently, part of the appeal...

For a start nothing gives advice (and if something does you don't want to listen to it anyway!). Lets assume that you want to start with some charting software - something that will let you look at the chart for a given market. NeoTicker sells a good product that will access data from the...

Try this: http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download

Develop and test your system thoroughly. Determine that it has positive expectation and then follow it religiously. That means NO deviation from the system - every trade must be taken, exactly as indicated. No discretion whatsoever. If you can do that then you stand a good chance that the...

Great post Smitty! I have a backtesting system that allows me to throw any system at a universe of markets and run various parameter sets over varying time frames. I then chart the results, and not a whole lot of systems really work that well. (Some do, of course, otherwise we would not be doing...

I have had some real turkeys over the years :mad:, all bought off the shelf, so for my current machine I went a different way and specified all name-brand components (ASUS mobo, AMD cpu, Matrox video card, Maxtor hdd's, etc) and I am VERY pleased that I did - this thing really flies :D! (I do a...

All of my meagre experience has shown that if you miss a move or see it too late then forget it and wait for the next signal (remember that I am a mech systems kinda guy). If you go outside of your system you increase the possibility of increasing your losses markedly.

Thanks for all the responses - good to know that I am not the only one of my kind! :D Another question for my EoD brethren: how do you assess system performance when testing? My preference is for things like Ryan Jones Expectancy ($Return for $Risked per trade) and the annualized version...

Is anyone on this list trading EoD or are you all daytraders? Thanks!

PM me if you wish.

I like "The Business One Irwin Guide to Trading Systems" by Bruce Babcock Jr.

Damn that is complicated! My math is bad at the best of times, so the algebra is wasted on me, sorry. The 2 in my prev post refers to Opp*Exp, which means for each dollar I risk I stand to get 2 back (in addition to my original dollar) each year. Hope that clears it up. Position trader, EoD...

Sorry, should have been more specific. Opportunity = trades per year; Expectancy = [1+(avgWin/avgLoss)]*%Win -1 Therefore Opp*Exp = $ return pa for dollar risked.

Most have an Opportunity*Expectancy of > 2.

My testing to date indicates that profit targets generally reduce system performance (unless the system is extremely bad to start with). I prefer adaptive trailing stops or reverse signals.

Belize interests me - they have immigration plans available www.belize.com - anyone living and trading from there? On the Caribbean coast. Some of the South Pacific is good - Vanuatu, Fiji, etc, but islands and hurricanes can be a bad mix at times. Australia is fine for quality of life...

How much are you prepared to tell us? Is the system intraday only or can it be modified to look at daily data?