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I have been using TradeStation from 2002, together with their brokerage service, and never had major problems. I automated some strategies and have my computer run them all day long. I only have to check my trades once every half hour. True, I trade off of 5 min bar charts, and I usually hold a...

Wash sale rule is about deducting losses, and has nothing to do with pattern day trading. If you have trader status than wash sales don't count, but again, trader status has nothing to do with pattern day trading either.

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I have been looking into a similar strategy for some time, but for stocks that are down on big volume. There will usually be a pullback starting around 10:00 - 10:30. I only consider stocks that are priced above $20, and with a potential pullback of at least $0.50. I will buy 500 or 1000 shares...

I wonder how Mr Market is doing in this bull market: http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/

I have this UPS: http://www.buy.com/prod/Belkin_1500_VA_Dual_Form_Factor_Small_Enterprise_UPS_F6C1500_TW_RK/q/loc/101/10391960.html and I have connected to it a computer with lcd monitor, cable router and wireless router, and in one instance hold the power for more than 30 minutes without a...

Well, there are actually some things that EasyLanguage doesn't support, or is hard to implement, like using global variables, or storing data between backtests, and they are quite important when you want to backtest a portfolio, or spreads.

My comments are based on the latest TradeStation platform, version 8.1 SP1 (Build 3258), but I've been with them since 2002. The backtesting is sometimes slow, when going back a lot, like 2 years for 5 minute bars, and that compared with a C++ application that reads data from an external...

Tradestation is very good for backtesting and I use it for automated real-time trading too, but I don't think is very good for high frequency automated trading. The problem a lot of people complained lately is with their order execution network, and real time data. The commision is reasonable -...

TradeStation lets you do almost any imaginable real time scanning (though I think there is a limit of 1,000 symbols at a time), and it can automate your trading, entries and exits (you don't even need to program a strategy, you can use macros and OCO/OSO orders for straight forward cases). What...

They used to be a search engine, but for some time now they are an advertising company, and looks like a very profitable one. That's not to say that the stock price cannot go down from here.

There is no portfolio backtesting in Tradestation. Only one by one. You can use multiple time frames in the same chart window, and reference them in your strategy, but orders can only be generated for the first timeframe.

Looks OK for me. Extracted two of them and are fine. I checked the exe file for viruses though, before launching.

I read your postings in the other thread too. I don't know your strategy, but if you get good results on tick data and bad results on 1min data, then don't even bother, in live trading you are just going to lose money. In real time you get a lot of bad or late prints that will give you false...

I forgot to mention that all my orders are market. This will cause some splippage, especially when entering a short position on a rundown.

I use a fully automated system, that I programmed myself in TradeStation. Every weekend I do some scans and come up with a list of about 10 stocks that I trade all week long. The system will buy/short upon breaking the morning range, and will close all positions at the end of the day. I use my...

Not a good idea. TRAD up 10% today on high volume. I don't trade it though.

This is my last installation on 9/26/05: 8.15.15.0000 (Build 2822)

Try this book, it will help a lot with your coding. The actual strategies that are described work more or less, but it offers a lot of interesting coding ideas...