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    Comuter Techies I need your help - New Computer

    If you know what you want in a trading system you owe it to yourself, financially to look at building it from a site such as newegg.com or tigerdirect. They don't provide any advice but the user reviews of the different products and the cost is the best. As for installation, if you have a...
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    Antivirus advice urgently needed....

    Prior to having AVG I used trendmicro to sort out some virus issues that I had thing works great. I was dubious of allowing it to scan but was more then pleased with the results..... As for AVG I have been using it for about the past 5 years and haven't experienced any problems to date ...
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    How to deal with boredom?

    Not sure how much time it will take up during your day but was faced with the same dilemma myself and bought a set of Bowflex SelectTech Dumbbells and a bench. They sit right in the office with me and are there for a quick workout ..... Nice supplement to the gym.
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    Forex with IB

    First and foremost stick to trading 100K lots ... if you cant get the ammo for that then stay with futures. Once you make the move to cash go with IB the spreads and liquidity in the IDEALPRO system is tough not to like the per trade charge is what is and it makes more sense to me to pay up...
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    Multicharts 2.1 ....sub for TS ???

    I was looking at Multicharts 2.1 as a possible substitute for Tradestation. I'm interested in anyone's thoughts who has made the move and how the platform performed in charting and optimization etc. Is it a viable substitute and does it perform at, above or below the level of Tradestation and...
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    Ooooops TradeStation!

    As I look to expand my trading out I would like to get into trading Euribor and other Eurex products however I'm tied into using Tradestation. I was wondering if there is anyone out there who uses Tradestation and executes Eurex products "away" from TS. Just curious..... I'm aware of using it...
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    Bankruptcy of Vallejo CA

    It's good to know that in the midst of this and all the rest of it Congress is spending the justice departments time going after Roger Clemens ... if that doesn't put the whole government in perspective I don't know what does.
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    Ooooops TradeStation!

    I asked this in another forum but will give it a try here what are your thoughts on this .... Why wouldn't IB make a bid for Tradestation.....Tradestations platform is stagnant and hasn't really evolved in years. It appears that the firm has no plans to make themselves competitive or take it to...
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    Why wouldn't IB Buy Tradestation

    Just a thought.....Tradestations platform is stagnant and hasn't really evolved in years. It appears that the firm has no plans to make the firm competitive or take it to the next level... why not cut the wait time, pick up accounts and make the platform once again competitive..... thoughts.....
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    Schindler Trading up 17% YTD

    Has anyone heard anything from Aaron regarding performance for 2008.....
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    Ooooops TradeStation!

    Going into the Fed I had a Long EDM08 ... 2:15 complete freeze until about 2:17 ...... Didn't surprise me honestly but was a bit disappointed with the level of service.... as a side note I have also had a series of jerk ups with the equipment since Dec..... I trade from the West Coast and am not...
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    Rogue trader to cost SocGen $7bn

    As if this is a shock to anyone ........... Rogue trader in 3.6bn fraud threatens to 'name names' as bank admits he may have had a gang From JULIE MOULT and PETER ALLEN in Paris The rogue trader accused of defrauding France's secondlargest bank out of £3.6billion is believed to have...
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    Tradestation Software Question

    2 Gig is sufficient .... its been my experience with being with TS for a cple years that the the video card is critical for optimal performance.
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    Comparison of auto trading platforms

    With OQ do you have to have an understanding of how to program in C or C++ to be able to get the most out of it or is it something like Tradestation where you pick indicators off a menu and manipulate them into your strategy ...
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    Renaissance Technologies

    By the way the Ricci Tensor was exactly what I was looking for and thanks for that .....
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    Renaissance Technologies

    I was looking through the threads regarding Renaissance Technologies and I had come across some posts outlining some of the math theories used at their funds and I've drawn a blank finding them again. If anyone can help me out I would appreciate it.
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    Audited Trades

    Appreciate the advice I am trying to get all my trades down in a new system and don't want to be six months in and find that I have neglected to include some important piece of information
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    Audited Trades

    I apologize if this thread is in the wrong section but here goes..... I want to compile an Audited Trading record and would like to know what I need to include to make it complete. Obviously I need my summary of trades to reconcile with my brokers report but how about what signals generate...
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    My goal this month is $5,000 net profit

    My guess SV is that you have optimized your sell stop and what it has done is placed right where historically it will make the most sense... the problem is that you may have also optimized the stops on the wrong trades. The problem here is you will always have a few more wrong trades (stops...
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    What is GPHONE?

    The early word was the GPhone was going to be free or sold at a modest $100ish price. However, now the word is that the phone will be somewhere around $400. One thing to keep in mind is the gripe that people have with the IPhone is that the At&T network sux. The word on the network is...
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