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Dunno about using OEC - I had major issues just trying to communicate with them when I wanted to open an account - scores of unanswered e-mails and so on. Their software looks terrific but their erratic approach to communication put me off before I even started with them. FWIW when I did...

Save your $3K and write something of your own - most commercially-available systems are pretty sucky and very few if any stand up to rigorous testing. If you really must buy a system make sure that it is fully disclosed, never buy a black box.

I use Vince's Weighted Geometric Mean as my primary stat along with SDevRatio and a few distribution stats.

Doubling losses? Good God man, that is just crazy. Google the word Martingale - guaranteed to bankrupt you (as is Murrey Math btw). Tell your friend to read a few books if he still has any money left to buy them.

Now there are two words you don't often see in the one sentence: "smart" and "Gann". Run now my friend for that way lies madness.

Does anyone know of any "Data Management"-type software? What I want is a standalone application that will integrate futures data from a range of EoD vendors into a single, consistent format (which may include mapping symbol names to a uniform standard and adjusting decimal places, etc, etc.)...

I'm 52, dropped out of school at 14 (you could get away with it back them - I found the school work easy enough, just boring) and in the years between school and now I have reached a few conclusions regarding degrees: 1. A degree will limit your natural ability for lateral thought - most...

Thanks for all the great feedback, I really appreciate it. FWIW the attached pic (I hope it works) shows the number of processes running - I count 26 in there, and I can account for 12 of them (one being the app used to take the screenshot) so I am assuming that the remainder are all system...

About half of the 512 is free with everything running, and I have just changed my pagefile to 512 min and max as per TEG site. Thanks!

Would you consider sharing your tweaks or directing me about what is useful and what is not? I have all the usual suspects disabled: Messenger, Remote anything, Restore, etc, etc. TIA! Roscoe

Athalon +1800, 512MB RAM, ASUS mobo, Matrox digital video card. I'm no techie, but there seem to a few processes that stay running when they shouldn't - for example I have to drop the NTVDM process manually sometimes after I close TradeStation 4. XP has been tweaked in line with the...

Any thoughts out there on viable OS's from a reliability standpoint? I'm running Win XP Pro with all the crap turned off and it still manages to screw up the memory management so that it needs a reboot at least once a day. Other contenders: Linux or Mac OSX, both with some kind of...

Open E-Cry offer pit traded contracts, their rates are competitive and their software is intuitive. I will very probably move some of my business to them later in the year. Their Justin Rucker has been very helpful and has responded well to my questions. I seem to recall that they also...

The ideal situation is to stop unwanted crap from getting onto your machine in the first place. FWIW, here are my suggestions: 1. Dump Outlook Express - many virii are written to exploit the OE address book. Use something like The Bat! (http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/) or Eudora...

Hi Steve, Understood, and an appropriate post too, thanks. To expand my initial post: I am trying to determine which of my own MarketSystems are ready for trading, so I do not have to contend with marketing hype (unless I am trying to fool myself :D ). One statistic that I have not...

Would anyone care to share their views on what constitutes acceptable system performance: what baseline values they consider would make a system a candidate to move from testing into real trading? (If there is interest in this thread we may need to break it into Position trading and...

I am only running with two drives at present, having retired the Maxtors. Both drives are masters, one on each IDE channel. I did have a third drive running as a slave on one IDE channel during the changeover period. Running Win XP Pro SP1, ASUS mobo.

I went with XactCopy from www.DuoCor.com - this app puts a bootable image a second HDD that cannot be 'seen' by the OS. Update is manual and/or scheduled. My practice is to check for adware/virii/trojans etc before the daily backup. When one of my Maxtors died a few months ago (it cooked...

My tech knowledge is kind of limited, but I do have access to some good techs. Their favorite by consensus is ASUS (for their bullet-proof reliability) with Intel in second place (due mainly to the effective warranty/replacement policy). I went with ASUS and AMD and I have been extremely...