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how did you access this data with a free registration ? Well I was able to simply logon with the same username and password as that for accessing Livecharts. However, as I mentioned before, I haven't been able to do this for about a week now. There may be a change of policy at quote.com...

quote.com provides about 3 years of historical intra-day data. However, they only guarantee about 1 years worth. By the way, this if for wide range of stocks, futures and I believe options, etc. You can get at this data using a software called QCollector...

IB has changed the server name from the account number to the username. For the demos it's "edemo" for equities and "cdemo" for commodities. Using some DDE (C++) software I've been able to "connect" to IB's ddl but I haven't figured out what strings to pass using "execute", "poke" or...

js1257: please explain the methodology that Larry gave in the Futures magazine issue. I suggest you refer to the article to get a good understanding of the method. However, I'll try and summarize it below: He uses 2 indicators: 1) Volatility Stop Indicator - the volatility stop sets...

In the Smart Trading 2001 issue of Futures magazine Larry Williams gave a trading methodology that I believe he said he uses for the S&P, Nasdaq and Bond futures. It would be interesting to see how this simulates? Richard

Can you say something about what are your rules in your simulation? Richard

Forgot to mention, if you're not math adverse you might want to also consult the book by John Ehlers, "Rocket Science for Traders". In particular chapter 10, "The Instantaneous Trendline" and chapter 11 "Identifying Market Modes" may be of use to you. Richard

I think ArchAngel has given you some good advice. For questions such as yours it's good to consult trade publications like "Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commidities". In fact the Jan. 2002 issue (the one currently on sale) there's a short article: "Detecting Trend Direction and...

rtharp, I'm not QUE but his link is OK, just get rid of the comma at the end of ".com,". By the way,rtharp, now that I have your attention, I read somewhere that you had taken a speed reading course. Was it useful? Is there any that you can recommend to me? Email me at...

Let me answer my own question: The symbol is $ADVN. http://finance.lycos.com/home/misc/symbol_search.asp?options=i Now for the bad news: I couldn't any historical information on Quote.com.

lassiter, I was just thinking of doing the same as you. Quote.com has about three years of historical intraday data. I wonder what is the symbol for the NYSE number of advancing issues? I checked out Mark Brown's web site hoping to find his email address for some guidelines here but I...

The Importance Of "Correct Punctuation" Dear John: I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when...

The above post should be posted in the thread "IB DDE Excel: is it now possible to automate trailing orders" but for some reason having tried over 3 days now, I always got timed out? (Whats going on? I sent an email to elitetrader but haven't received a reply yet.) So I posted it here. Richard

vikana, Thanks for letting me know about the Microsoft site. VC++ 6 itself has little documentation about DDE, however it does provide a number of examples, which unfortunately are long and are not helping me so much due to their complexity and lack of explanation. I've found very...

Neither TradeStation nor IB (nor any other futures broker I'm familiar with) pay interest on funds in a Futures account. However, I believe, you can buy treasury notes in your futures account and use it as margin colateral. So you'll be earning interest with your treasury notes. Richard

OK since no one is answering my question above, let me ask another question: can some one suggest a good reference to learn about DDE? My aim is to use VC++, rather than EXCEL, to affect data exchange. Of course, the best solution would be if IB could provide some basic routines in C/C++...

bennyo, "Yes, it possible. Even from within other programs/languages. Just request a tws|ord!idXXX?place?BUY_1_XXXXX_FUT_XXXXX_GLOBEX_MKT_ DDE Field and read the status of tws|ord!id1?status and tws|ord!id1?filled fields." To where does one make the request? That is, how do you commuicate...

lxo7, It appears that the macros have not been assigned to the toolbar buttons. Follow the procedure given in the IB documentation. Basically use the "Assign Macro" function. Also, your entered tickers (and everything else, like STK and BEST)need to be in upper case for TWS to accept it...

There is a very interesting article in the current issue of CRB Trader (which is probably also freely accessible on the web) dealing with writing put credit spreads on the S&P futures index. However, what is unclear to me is whether there is an advantage in writing an option on the futures as...

Alex, You didn't copy the code fully. It should be: { Data1 = Either the SP Ccash S&P 500 index tracking stock or the S&P 500 commodity futures contract. Data2 = Advancing issues of the Nyse. * this was added after article was released to be sure that a buy-sell does not occur on the...