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I have an automated self-updating moving average, which basically is the average of the prices of the last x minutes, polled once per minute. So this means the macros print price once every minute. Someone else had written these macros for me years ago, and until now, being an amateur VBA...

Thank you all. Very kind. I wrote private messages to Tom and Rod regarding their data, so I only have to answer to MAI PHUNG now. I mentioned buying each symbol because first of all that's the way I went about it on disktrading.com web site. They're very cheap and usually good data, but...

As usual, I bought the data from DiskTrading (15 dollars per symbol), but this time I was not satisfied, for the following reasons: 1) CAD File "CADA0-15min.txt": they gave me the forex data, which is inverted to the USD (e.g.: not 0.9, but 1.1), and not the future's data, which is what I...

Thanks, day4night. You saved me 1 dollar per month. Here's the link I used to verify that OneChicago is not necessary for my CME Group futures: http://www.onechicago.com/ What about the CBOE part in their email? Do I need to subscribe to those or not? I am just trading NYMEX, ECBOT and...

No, sorry, but I don't know anything about these markets. I trade mostly CME futures (forex, indexes, gold, oil, bonds).

You're right. Thank you very much for your reply, that provided me with detailed and useful information.

I've done some research, because people were telling me that going LONG on the EUR and going SHORT (2 contracts) on the GBP didn't make sense, in a strategy betting on a reduction of the divergence, and that I should have simply traded the "EUR/GBP future". That seems right, however the...

As they say in their email, Market Data Express Indices & OCX are the new subscription services for CBOE and CME ("OneChicago" in their second message) data. Their subscription service "US Securities & Commodities Non-Professional Bundle" doesn't cover the CBOE and CME (a.k.a. "OneChicago")...

Right, I was having the same problem, not finding how to subscribe to the mentioned "OneData" and "Market Data Express Indices" subscription services. But then I saw their latest message, quoted above, saying it will actually start a month from now, and probably that is why we were having...

Wow, problem solved, but only because I was lucky I looked into my Message Center (I was going to write them a ticket), since I didn't get an email correcting the previous one.

Wow, problem solved, but only because I was lucky I looked into my Message Center (I was going to write them a ticket), since I didn't get an email correcting the previous one.

I received this email from IB, but when I logged into my account, went to Trading Access, Market Data Subscriptions, those names are not there for me to select and subscribe. Can anyone please help me? Thank you.

I logged into my account, went to Trading Access, then Market Data Subscriptions, but those names are not there for me to select and subscribe. Can anyone please help me? Right now, all I see is this: and then others, but definitely non-related.

Thank you very much.

Great. Thank you all. The solution you all seem to agree on is to change the schedule of the future. It will work for sure (I won't even need data2 probably). Thanks.

I have a problem that I can't fix, in easylanguage. If I ask for yesterday's close, by using the "CloseD(1)" function on futures data (continuous trading), it does not return the last close of the session (at about 4 PM EST), but the last close of the 24 hour day (right before midnight - 8...

I don't know what's best. I can tell you what worked for me, because I didn't try anything else. Tradestation to backtest and excel to automate. Don't study anything. Start working and then look up the answers as they are needed. As far as strategies: try anything, randomly. If it doesn't work...

What I think is that things are not as hard for automated traders as they are painted in this quote. At least not yet at this moment. Yes, there's people smarter and faster than us out there (certainly much smarter than me, since I am not even a programmer). But we are not competing just against...

If you can program, it will be easy. The hardest part for me was to learn some basics of programming (in easylanguage). Keep it simple. Use time of the day, day of the week, high, low, close as parameters. Mess a little bit around with them and you'll come up with something. You can...

Many bank executives don't know much about trading. That is one of the causes of Leeson and the stuff I see going on at the bank I work for (many traders not making money for years, and still not getting fired). They know about banking but they don't know about trading. If they knew about...