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I have a computer, 2 GB of ram. I run Windows XP and was recently told that the max ram you can have is 4GB, but you should really only do 3GB. I'm looking to be able to have something in the neighboorhood of 8-16- GB of RAM. I heard that Vista really is a terrible OS and to stay away from...

Eric, thank you very much this is exactly what I was looking for

i was reading in the trade station forums that the average slippage was .03. But i'm not sure what the value of the stock was when that was said

Dustin, Thanks for the reply. No, I have never traded manually. The thing that I feel (and I'm sure I'm wrong) is that if you are trading manually you have to have a set of rules by where to buy and where to sell. What I don't understand is why can't you just take those rules and program...

I'm aware that it varies, what is the average? The average takes into account for differences

if you enter all market orders on stocks that have heavy volume, what is the estimated slippage in terms of percentage? Thanks

thanks for the info

I love trade station, only thing is that they pay very very little interest 1.25% on money you leave in there, while interactive brokers pays much more. The ? I have is how can I still run my automated strategies w/ out doing it from trade station?

Pros / Cons? Thanks

You always here about comission and slippage, but I never hear about the fee for the interest rate. If you buy 1 contract of the ES I know that commision is about 2.50 per trade in comissions and 12.50 in slippage, but what about interest? how is that calculated? Thanks

First of all I would like to thank you, Jack for taking the time answering my ?s, and especially thank you for posting that chart. “Check your stack of calenders where you have marked the days you have looked at volume. I could be running around 15,000. I'll give you five years or over a...

Jack, 3 Questions? 1) Do you have automated strategies, or do you do it my hand? 2) Do you believe it is easier to trade 30 min / 60 min bars vs 1 min - 5 min bars? 3) When you say V leads P. I have spent a lot of time trying to come up with something. Is there a specific indicator...

I heard from this guru that it is really not possible to trade of indicators alone. Like, it is very hard to base a strategy based on if fast moving average crosses over slow moverage average and RSI is something... the buy next bar. What he said, is that you base all your entries and exits...

Just wondering what the estimated slippage is per side in terms of ticks for stocks with relatively heavy volume? Thanks

what about the e mini one. One 3 to 4 ticks? Is that per side? so like 3 to 4 ticks round about. The index futures are only 1 tick per side. Geez

I wrote a strategy for the index futures. I tried them out on the energy futures and WOW I can't believe the movement on these things. Anyway what is an estimated slippage? in terms of per tick

Hey thanks, I'll look into that

I'm a user of trade station, and I've had some sucessful using my trend following system. The (2) markets that I want to beat, but I am not coming with anything successful are the YM, and the ES. One of the reasons why I believe this to be true is the the YM and the ES tend to be a bit...

True, No I have never heard of that. What is it? Do you find it succesful using it?

The System that I designed is a Trend Following System. I am getting fairly good results, however the average win rate is about 40%. So as you can imagine you can with a win rate of only 40% you can have some lossing sessions. What I have read is that if you have multiple exit targets you...