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Also, does anyone have tick or 1-min data for the SPY for the past year? I'm trying to find a way to backtest manually my strategy.

I am starting to trade the SPY intraday and I was looking at a bunch of posts about spreads being .15, talking about trading intraday with SPY is useless....however I was a bit confused b/c I have been backtesting the past year and it seems like a great intraday trading vehicle. as to the...

well, its 2pm here in cali, and i'm backtesting some new strategies instead of going for a walk on a beautiful sunny day..... addicted?

I want to test a new strategy out on the SPY. What is the cheapest and best way to get historical data in realtime? I would prefer not to have to download the data, load it up into a charting software, and scroll.....but if thats the cheapest, then I'm all ears.... I use InstaQuote so I...

I've noticed that the risk/reward ratio is much better when people scale IN to the topic in a 1-2-3 fashion.

this is a double edged sword....the analogy is like learning how to drive on a suburban street vs. learning to drive on a busy highway. you will undoubtably fare better at first by doing the former, but the latter will hone your skills more than you would ever get from driving on a slow street...

so do you plan to commit suicide just like he did after his final blowout?

i had a trade with bgen short at .40 that i DIDN'T take because it was still a lunchtime trade, low volume, but guess what, 1250 the market breaks. maybe i'll start paying more attention to ya now ;)

thanks :)

i hit the ignore on this guy long time ago.....

ok, don't take another step......remember the game 'frogger'? you know, the game where you had to jump from log to log while all kinds of things tried to take you out. did you ever win by just jumping like crazy across the screen? maybe in the first level, but as things got harder.....ya...

like you and anyone who calls him/herself a trader, i go long and short as the market tells me to. going long and short, however, is not the same, as you mention. i trade intraday volitility breakouts in the nasdaq 100, and I'll give you a little taste of what i've experienced so far doing...

yeah, i haven't seen anything to back this up. anyways, with all the programs that create their own uptick, this problem is going away quickly...i wouldn't be surprised to see the SEC remove this rule in the future b/c of these new features in many popular trading systems.

doh...is this for real?

just remember that we also had the artificial long after the globex fiasco.....i think it was already on its way down until that happened -- anywhooo, who cares? its fun to speculate isn't it?? ;)

i wish....i was thinking about it when i was there a month ago...on the west side where its nice and sunny :) buy a nice little house on the coast and figure out a way to trade, that would be the life :) wake up at 4am, trade in the morning and done by 11am, take a nap out on the...

what interests me the most about what you are doing is the fact that if this is indeed a reliable way to predict movement/volume in the market, the stress goes WAY down. i mean, you don't have to be glued to the screen the whole day -- that is one drawback to daytrading that i have found. its...

oh, i trade the naz, sorry, didn't know it was for the ES.....

the 1155 call worked on the dime. literally at 1155 it took off.

wow, can you send me your system? it works ;)