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Good grief, there is more to life than trading. After all, what are you trading for? I do mostly EOD which takes relatively little of my time, but I will daytrade the E-Minis or other indices if the weather is lousy or I feel like it - usually a couple or three half days a week. There is...

I was trying to run the Autotrader program someone on these boards programmed and ran across the following: Activate "TWS API Active X and Socket Client". Since I don't speak Greek, I looked it up, but couldn't come to a clear definition. From reading threads on these boards, it seems...

Thanks for the information. I apprecaite your help.

I have read many threads on here on dual monitors with great interest and am impressed with your expertise. I am thinking on getting a second LCD since I have a good size credit with one of the local retailers. I have a regular Dell 17" Sony monitor I use at this time. It works fine for...

I have a similar problem - use MetaStock with an e-Signal feed. Intraday works fine. When I request EOD data for stock or E-Minis (ES #F) I get only one day, i.e. the latest update no matter how many times I change the beginning date. I am not sure it is e-Signal or MS, but I have used...

The definition and trading of a trends depends entirely on your time horizon. The reason I am daytrading is because of the absence of long-term trends. I would even say that it all boils down to finding and trading trends - they may be seconds, hours or months, but in the end you can only...

I hope mine is the winning bid. You place my bets and keep 90% of the profits. Just send me my 10% every quarter.

I read all the good replies with interest and they are all valid. Of course there are good brokers - actually they are now Financial Advisors - and then of course there are lousy brokers. The problem is that 95% are lousy brokers who don't even know how to open an account when they get past...

I just started to use e-signal last week and am very satisfied with them. I run e-signal inside MetaStock which gives me a few extra options, but they do have pretty much everything you need to run the E-minis in my case. Their array is somewhat overwhelming, but that's typical. I still...

The brokerage business has shifted from commissions to fee or asset based business in the last couple of years. Commissions are approaching zero (at least compared to the "old" fees like $5 vs. $200 or more). Brokers now get measured and paid by the amount of assets they have under their...

I read it every day along with Barrons on Saturday. The damn thing is so dry that you have to read something else along with it to expand the horizons. I do have to say, that they have enlarged their general coverage and added some non-financial or less dry material. But, even a technical...

I agree that it can be a good system, but one of the problems with it is that the drawdown can be very large. In other words, it takes a lot of capital, something only larger, well capitalized traders have. That is why CTA's use it - it is more adaptable to the futures markets where they...

No wonder you guys are confused! I am sure there are many good books among those mentioned, but you obviously confuse yourselves by reading too much. There is no empirical solution to this business and every book is someone's opinion that may work for him (most likely not, otherwise he...

Trading as a Business @ Tradestation World is more of the same general mush that is totally useless and has been rehashed ad infinitum. Technical Analysis from A to Z is a good TA review from Equis@MetaStock site. It won't help you much, but you can at least sharpen up on technical jargon...

Thirty years ago a good friend and I had to write a thesis for one of our statistics classes - we were both engineers and finishing our MS in Operations Research. We knew that it was impossible to beat the house in the long run, but wanted to have some fun, especially since we were on nice...

No, but I attended Elder hostel and it was nothing like Elder's camp, but it was a good deal for a good price.

I use MetaStock and am planning to use eSignal for streaming data as it seems to get the highest marks. The problem is that it is expensive and I don't need most of what eSignal provides - graphs, indicators etc. etc. I generate those myself. All I need is a straight data feed - nothing...

I am still in my day trading "training period" and read Active Trader, Stocks & Commodities and Futures mags. I have to agree that an experienced trader will find few useful trading systems as many articles are reruns of existing, readily available formulas or systems.....but, it is very...

I am running Windows 2000 PRO and recently upgraded to MetaStock 8.0 PRO. One of the reasons was that the new version allows you to import up to 6000 stocks into a folder vs. 2000 in the older version 7.2 I can still import 2000 stocks, but not 6000. If I use the Downloader to set up the...

I am a terrible dieter, I cheat and have to start from scratch continueously. I have tried many diets and failed ALL of them - except one...the Atkins diet. Lost over 45 lbs. in about 9 months and kept it off for over a two years so far. So look at it like TA - forget the noise. Follow...