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    An idea about moving averages...

    I'm trying to figure out if its possible to develope a trading system around this.... Lets say you take somethign simple such as 5 day SMA and 10 day SMA...... And you have another piece of data called difference difference=SMA10-SMA5.... So the difference between the two is your...
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    Is there something wrong with this system?

    A follow up.... After further testing, now with 92 trading days, the profit is now only a $2200 per contract........ All new data I have been adding has been dropping the profitability of the system.. and now the loosers are actually outpacing the winners when with only 45 days the system...
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    Is there something wrong with this system?

    Just to clear up a few things regarding this system... a few of you have assumed that i used TS to do my backtesting... actually the software i'm using to do my back testing is one I programed myself, and the good results did not originate because of an error running the specific system...
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    Is there something wrong with this system?

    I recently back tested a system that over the past 47 trading days woudl generated 6k per Ym contract... Had 31 Winning Days and 16 loosing days, biggest loosing day was $500 which was actually A LOT MORE than every other loosing day, most loosing days only lost around $120; I am...
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    Problem calculating ADX

    Does anyone know the algorithm usually used to calculate ADX? I tried googling it, but I see tons of different algorithms used.... Does anyone have a relatively simple and straight forward method that is similar to what most charting aplications use?
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    Paper trading now at IB.

    How do you reset the account back to 100k? I havent been able to find how to do it.. thanks
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    TWS C api order problem...

    I am using hte tws c api, but am having problems sending a simple order... This is what I am trying: Setting contract with memset(&c, 0, sizeof c); c.c_symbol = "YM"; c.c_sectype = "FUT"; c.c_expiry = "200512"; c.c_right = ""; c.c_multiplier = ""...
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    YM backtesting data...

    Where can i get a few years of YM intraday 15 second or LESS data cheaply?
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    chart problems with ib

    I tired to chart the EUR.USD with interactive brokers, but it doesnt display a chart.. says no historical data is available....... is this normal? can you not get charts for FOREX with IB? If so what do you guys use for charting FOREX? thanks
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