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Bullfighter - It's not a new software concept. The issue is practicality and viability. A successful mechanical trading system isn't just about number crunching. If it was, jaypaul could do it in a week in Matlab and sell it for a million dollars...LOL And it's not necessarily about...

Most of the datafeed providers should be able to do that. You can get it easily using Quote.com QCharts.

Man, I still don't get this whole "freedom of speech", anybody should can post anything rant that keeps popping up. Just seems like some people are real good about telling others how to run their business and demanding unrestricted right to post anything they want as long as it doesn't cost...

jj - The return of buying anything at 5 and selling it later at 34 is not 192% - it's always almost 600%. Nat logs have nothing to do with the calculation nor does being a daytrader vs. a position trader. In your example, buying something at 5 and selling it at 10 and then buying it at 10...

Dave - a copyright isn't a patent. It only protects the particular form something is expressed in. He could stop someone from selling "Tony Oz Scanners" as part of their software, but can't stop stop anyone from simply using them. Doubtful he could even stop anyone from including them in a...

80 * $12.50 = $1000? Gee, ya think? Yeah, I can do the math. The reason I asked iiphos was what he was trading was because he was talking about taking one "tick" from a contract that had a 5-7 "tick" daily range. So I wanted to be sure we were talking about a real "tick" and not a...

One thing to remember about QCharts - their software engineering group is pretty inexperienced. Even in the pre-Lycos days, their software engineering lacked quality control and discipline. Even the basic infrastructure (one of the guys who worked on it is now working at Erlanger I...

Yeah, some of them even incorporate planetary alignment analysis - works about as well. :) Seriously, I've used a couple - didn't find them of any value. Elliott Waves has always seemed to be a mostly hindsight kind of analysis - you can always fit some wave count to the price movements in...

How many contracts (and which contracts) are you trading that a tick is worth $1000 (e.g., a tick on the ES is 1/4 point = $12.50/contract)? And don't be so sure that in order to make one point on a stock trade that the stock really needs a 5-7 point intraday range.

Newatthis - I might agree with you if in fact the advertisers in general were actually "running amok". Don definitely posts a lot and at least some of his early post volume were little more than copies of earlier posts (so to pick on him as an example) - he seems to mostly post at the...

Joe - I'm looking at the NQ data (on Quote.com though) and it shows a 1419.50 trade at 9:39:16am ET which is probably what you're seeing. If Metastock isn't showing it, it's probably a problem with it rather than the datafeed. Were you connected to the same physical server when you looked...

El Cazador - Charts are charts - they're based on the underlying trade data regardless. A time chart composes bars based on the trades that occur within each defined time period (i.e., if you're using a 1 minute chart than all the trades that occured from 10:01:00 to 10:01:59 are in the...

I'm currently using the QCharts datafeed with the Trade Prospector charting software. No limit to # of charts. Has things like color coded volume, automatic moving average of volume, automatic support/resistance lines, variety of technical studies, buy/sell signal generating studies, signal...

carlp - Quote.com has two offerings - LiveCharts which is about $30/month I think, but it's REALLY basic and as I recall limited to only one chart at a time. They also have QCharts which is $79/month and worth the differential.

tntneo - Agree with you, except perhaps the part about "out of sample" testing on other markets. In essence, that's what the forward test is (i.e., the forward test time period is by definition outside of the backtest sample). As far as having to test a system on other markets though -...

Halcyon - Backtesting results can often be illusionary. Besides the usual issues like "could you really get executed at the prices the system is using", there's are basic validity of test issues. The first validity issue has to do with overoptimization on the backtest data. If you hone...

You seem to have concluded from a couple of snipets that the two companies (or at least the specific departments you talked to - which may or may not have been the most representative department) are engaged solely in hedging (do you mean arbitrage?) and order flow scalping - rather than trading...

nitro - any of the Qfeed-based programs only need the QCharts datafeed to run. For example, I'm using the Trade Prospector realtime program (http://www.trade-prospector.com) and only need a QCharts Basic subscription to run it.

Fernando - So now you've decided that folks are internet trolls if they catch a guy (fill in the name) in an amazingly stupid lie and then slam him for his half-a**ed attempts to use lame excuses and lies to try to get himself out of the situation that HE created. Then troll must be the...

liltrdr - By "prop firm" presumably you mean a GS, JPM, etc. - not a Bright/Worldco - otherwise, why would you want to move to NYC just to do that? Re: Taxes - I believe it's 6.85% NY tax plus about 3.6% for NYC tax - so on $200K the state/city tax would be about $20,700 - over 3 times...