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What format are you looking for data? OMZ for TS, or ascii for something else? If 5m data will work, here is a site that has data for each back to the Dec 99 contract. http://www.anfutures.com/charts01.htm If you can use TS2k XPO format, let me know and I can send you 1m (or tick) data...

TS just slaps the "slippage+commish" amount onto each completed trade, not each side of the trade. If you put $50, it will simply subtract $50 per contract from each trade's profit/loss. The next question is then, "How much slippage is appropriate?" It varies greatly by market and...

As another poster already pointed out, the big question on your system is slippage. Do you have a slippage amount built into your results? If not, then you would never achieve the results TS is giving you. A measly 1 tick of slippage on entry and exit, plus $5 commish, gives you an average...

I have been using them for about 5 months now. I use their autoXecutor software to automate my system trades from TradeStation. I've been very happy with the performance of their software during this time. My systems could have done better, but that's another thread :eek: Their price for...

Do a search here on ET for "traders AND international". You will find many discussions on the subject, including a thread from just 3 weeks ago. If you dont want to do the legwork, here is a summary of the various discussions on this particular vendor: S C A M

I also tried the CME's marketsound program a few months back. It is stricly based on ES prices and volume. It has a few selections of voices that it plays for buys and sells, and it adjusts the volume of the voices based on the trade volume. If the bid or ask suddenly increases dramatically...

Elitetrader, and the internet in general, are superb learning resources. There is a ton of information on this site for beginners. If this is true: "I am determined to discover what all the rage is about.", then you need to roll up your sleeves and start digging. No need to ask people to...

For a discretionary trader, a second PC on a second connection is a very good solution. If your primary broadband is having problems, the backup is already up and running. For some setups (like mine unfortunately), the answer isn't so simple. I use Tradestation2000, so my system collects...

The problem with automatic backup devices is that they will often not detect the *right* kind of problems. Example: uunet has a power outage at a big data center because they can't pay their bills. The route from you to your quote data provider travels through this particular uunet center...

I was curious and emailed the vendor about backtesting. Specifically, whether or not he has tradestation code for his systems, so that someone else can perform the same backtest. Nope. All the "backtests" are done manually with qcharts. That's a charging bull red flag there. Now maybe...

One thing that vendors never mention (after the fact) are their failed systems. You will see this on the front page of spbankbook's website: "The Limit Line trading system has been discontinued and replaced by the MONASHEE S&P TRADING SYSTEM. A swing type trading system with some unique...

You really need to work on your pitch alain. According to the emails in my inbox, I can make $5000/month working from home, be debt free, enlarge my penis, get cheap viagra to make my new penis work better, enlarge my breasts, spy on my neighbors, and ruin the credit rating of my enemies. I...

Search the omega list archives at http://purebytes.com/archives/ and you should find lots of examples of floor pivot code you can use in supercharts.

I agree with rcreal's suggestion that you do your testing on ES, or at least SPY. There are many systems that perform well on an index but poorly on the real instrument. *Particularly* a system that uses stops to enter or exit. I'm not that sure about the system's position sizing, but the...

rcreal, I had to laugh when I saw your initial post, cuz I knew what was coming. Most of the people who have posted on this thread are discretionary traders and/or scalpers. "Cut losses short, etc" 17 point loss = deer in the headlights for them. Fasten your seatbelts when they see your max...

If you are looking for a chart of option prices, Lycos livecharts does it. It will even make a decent translation if you don't know the option symbol (i.e. "ibm jun 75 call" = IBMFO). The charts are often spotty of couse, depending on the volume of the particular option you are looking at...

Globex is an open and transparent market. If you bring up the price depth on ES or NQ, how many contracts does it show on each side? How does that volume compare to the position size YOU are trying to trade? WYSIWYG

Many traders quit for the summer anyway. Take 3 months off, focus on improving your capital base and your knowledge base. Then come back in September. The market will be more favorable for daytrading and you will have reduced your stress level.

WTF is up with that? Except for ES and NQ, emini products have so little liquidity that they are not tradeable except for very long term positions. One of the avenues to improve their volume is arbitrage with the big contracts. With a 40% size, an arb has to trade 5 minis against 2 bigs. I...

As long as we're playing gumshoe, check out the group that hosts his website. http://studentweb.seaed.com/pinpointfutures/oursevices.asp SEA is a private teaching company that helps students get various computer certifications (MSCE, etc). The studentweb part of the SEA site is for students...