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I'm new to backtesting... I'd like to backtest ER futures with intraday data as far as 10 years...is this possible? I have ninjatrader right now. Am I using the right software?

1. okay i understand 2. maybe i didn't make myself clear....what I was asking was, before an international futures index opens....sometimes there is a huge gap. Is there a way to know where that gap during the time that futures market is closed and even better yet, is there any way I can get...

i'm still a rookie at trading and i need some help... 1. does selling short a futures contract actually CAUSE the market price to go down? 2. and in regards to international index futures that close for half of the day and reopen at a certain time... if there were no orders placed...

but how do you define a limit order based on ticks instead of an exact price?

I need some help trying to figure this out in IB. I would like to place an order in IB where I can execute a market order and then a limit order to close out that position by X amount of points.... all in 1 click how do I go about doing this? thanks

What I'm trying to get at is that.... there is a fine line between starting up a business...making good money... racking in profits.... those that mention profit margin is only 5-20%, that maybe huge in numbers.... can I man ever truely be worth billions more than another human being...

I have no idea why people are giving me business advice. I mean, if I wanted to know how to run a good business....I would simply ask... how do I run a good business?

some things to take note... Bill Gates was studying law, not engineering. The president of Intel is a business major. I think technology is just another commodity that is hyped to the point that it wins over the majority and then becomes a standard. In order to bring it to that level, it's...

but let me play devils advocate here.... if say I was to create an intangle product online such as say an online book that teaches people how to gamble... and say some people buy it at first... then more people buy it and even more people buy it afterwards.... i may get away with targeting...

but it sounds like capitalisim is about greed. Everyone for himself. Could it be that the only reason the economy would do well, is if others aren't doing so well? Hence, could capitalisim be cause of the growing gap between the rich and the poor?

I plan to start my own e-business soon. I'm very frugal and tend to run everything as efficiently as possible, by minimizing amount of inventory costs, debt to income ratio. Basically, I'm hiring the least amount of employees I need in order to run a successful website. And of course, trying to...

for example... Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak?

okay now let's put a little twist... remember, book smart does not mean you have higher earning power.. let's not focus on who can calculate numbers more accurately and focus on the real world. We all know that business majors are very common which is the reason why there are...

but who has the potential to make more money....hehhehe

okay this a going to be a silly topic... but who do you think is smarter, an economics major or an engineering major?

yes but specifically for the S&P and it's derivatives... without considering margin calls... with ES, it's always going to be $50 per point... when speaking of options sometimes trading at 1 to 1.... does this mean that at times there is a small chance that option can come as close...

I'm a little confused... so if ES futures is worth $50 for 1 point... are you are saying with options, it's possible to get not only $50 for 1 point, but even more?

I'm trying to figure out in what order has the highest to lowest leverage? can anyone please put this in order? thanks ES futures ES options SPX options SPY options thanks

the api? are you refering to the java based application that is needed in order to run IB? I have this on 3 computers by the way and on all of them, there is no excel folder.

i do not have an excel folder.... ??? is there something that I did not turn on?