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By the way - I first mentioned Minitab, but kind of forgot about that. Anyone ever test or use it?

Thanks, Dave! Appreciate it. :) Sounds interesting and worth a try if I can set it up myself. Thanks for the suggestion. :)

Regarding Tableau then... Anyone use it extensively? What would advantages be over Excel? From what I've read online, the alleged advantage is that Tableau gives better visualizations. While this is a nice additional benefit, I guess it's not my main need.

Yes. The thing is I actually enjoy the research and trial and error thing quite a lot, normally. Building stuff and developing trading systems is more fun to me than actual trading (the end product/outcome). It's just that I'm so short on time these days, so I need to spend it wisely. And with...

Thank you! I use Microsoft SQL Server 2014. :)

Yes, I figured so. Although I did make some compromises due to budget, I figured it should be sufficient for a trading computer. I have i7 quad cores though. That's a good suggestion. Do you happen to know if connecting it to SQL is an easy feat for a non-programmer such as myself?

I always appreciate when people take the time to help me out. As for how to proceed from here, I'm a little on the fence... What I currently have in Excel does work. I'm just not completely satisfied. Particularly with the speed aspect at the moment. So, it won't be a final solution for me...

Thanks a lot, @userque. You're being very helpful. :)

Wow. This looks really impressive. And could be very useful to me. After loading the data - do you know if it's stored in the program? Obviously, the answer depends on a person's background, but how complicated is this program to learn and get up to speed with? Is it easy to create charts...

I wish... My current set-up was programmed for me by a company. Thanks, man. Those dense 100 pages look a bit more extensive than 2 hours and a day of work though. But I will take a look later. When I have time (which I don't seem to have these days...).

Yes, I understand that., It's difficult to get accurate advice when one can't provide accurate information about specifics (which I simply can't...). I have a Dell 7000 laptop with 16 GB DDR memory and 128 GB SSD hard-drive I bought just months ago. It could very well be that I have...

That's very intriguing. Any pointers on how to proceed with doing so? Many thanks in advance.

Actually, my data IS stored in SQL and I utilize an SQL database already. But I don't really have a clue as to exactly how it works. But basically, my calculations are done in C# and stored in a DB. Excel is basically just used as a front-end to display the data and filter/sort it. The...

Very interesting. I will do some Googling on these and see what I can discover on my own. If you're inclined to do so, please share some of your own experience (if you have used them yourself). How is the data stored? Can I load data from my Excel sheets?

Thanks. What's your definition of quite fast? Any course recommendations? Thanks.

Hi all, In some other threads I've inquired questions related to the same theme. I chose to remain with Excel and have had some help from programmers to achieve what I want for now. But, I'm always having new ideas and stuff I'd like to explore and improve. So, it's costly and otherwise a...

10.000 hours or more is probably accurate. Of course you'll hear about successful newbies, but often they're just at the right place at the right time, i.e., they got lucky.

I don't think people would accuse you of being him, UNLESS, this guy is selling something. I'm not looking to follow live calls from any other trader, but I'd be interested to check him out if I can learn anything, so please share his handle. :) If you don't know, there is an ES journal here...

If the guy has 13K followers - why keep it secret? And why look for anyone else? I'm not looking to follow anyone's live calls, but would be curious to check this guy out if I could learn from him somehow.

Is there no middle ground between IB's IMO high intraday leverage and $500 intraday margins? FWIW, I went to AMP instead of IB due to the intraday margins. I used IB in the past when their intraday margin for ES was considerably lower (the ES was priced a lot lower also). 15 minutes prior to...