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    Beating Buy and Hold

    This approach has beaten the market by a fair bit for some time, and will likely continue to do so. www.dogsofthedow.com Several improvements to the basic idea are outlined in a Motley Fool book called the Unemotional Investor.
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    Historical Quotes

    I don't know the details, but I know it is possible. I have several third party programs that access the TC2K database through their API. Must be details about a developer's program at the site...
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    Historical Quotes

    Just go to www.tc2000.com and order the free cdrom. You don't pay a cent unless you subscribe to their feed service. If you don't, you still keep the cdrom with decades of historical data for free. It can be exported selectively or en masse to a variety of different formats.
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    International markets

    I have looked at a few, but most seemed very expensive. I have heard the state of commission charges in the UK is almost as bad as in Canada...:(
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    International markets

    One thing that particularly intrigues me about IB is the way they offer access to international markets and multi-currency accounts. The only reason I'm not with them is they don't currently accept Canadian accounts. Does anyone know of a broker that offers access to international equity...
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    Free Futures Data

    Thanks! I'm just taking a look at it now. What's your opinion on continuous adjusted data? I've only started looking at futures, but it seems there a great deal of contention as to the effectiveness of adjusting for the rollover, and the best way to do it. Does anyone know where one could...
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    Why Optimization Won't Kill My System and Will It Work In The Future?

    is available both online and a desktop version. The online version is free and fully functional, except that it is limited to testing on only a rather small basket of stocks due to timeouts and such. You can get started online and then move to desktop version once you are comfy. And it is...
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    BackTesting with Level II data

    Man, that SL4 dude is out of control. He's his own worst enemy too. I've never seen the like. The site is actually pretty OK. If I read it correctly, they've recorded L2 patterns and are giving signals based on how similar the current situation is to prior patterns. That sounds pretty...
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    BackTesting with Level II data

    Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? I would think coming up with some simple rules based on the flow of L2 data would be simple enough, but the data would be massive, even for a few days...
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