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I meant for a trade in September. Max drawdown was -$5000, and it closed for a profit of $500. But it showed "No Calc" above the trade. I've never seen that before. Maybe you should report it to Matthew. Unfortunately, C2 only calculates max drawdown by closed drawdown. And most times the...

13% closed drawdown. If you look at open drawdown I see one trade that has a 20-25% open drawdown. Is it an error? It shows "no calc' there. Just curious.

It took a lot of OO losses for me to realize that when I sat there "wishing", it 90% of the time just turned into a bigger loser. So whenever I feel myself wishing I know I have to cut it right away (or get out on any rebound) and accept the loss. It's like a sixth sense now :p But I'm proud...

I think that's a good price for quantity of information you can learn. Especially if you're a total beginner. Would have been nice if there was something like that around here when I first began.

Not necessarily. There is plenty that can and does go on that can't be tested with historical data. I can't give you details (sorry) but here is an example of something that you couldn't backtest: Quote from Szeven: "After that, i scalped EWZ 1k shares at a time. It was easy to buy ECN's size...

Those sound like great ideas. Thanks guys. Currently my program checks for unusual bid/ask prices premarket and I check for news. When tis the season I check for earnings on briefing.com. But going through all the stocks on yahoo sounds like a good idea for me. Just wish I was more of a...

Curious, how do you guys rapidly scan for news? I'm half dead before the open so I can't imagine going through a large list of stocks looking for news. Usually I only check for news after I get a bad fill that seems unusual.

It happens. I think I did about 200K in volume with 50 share lots one hour :p Never again....

greaterreturn, I wrote my own charting software. It's pretty simple actually. Just a bunch of boxes and lines. I don't use technical indicators so I don't have to draw any squiggly lines. aonelite, I have both types of data and use them for different strategies. But IMHO, you won't find much...

But if you're a pattern day trader you'll soon receive some nasty emails.

Do you guys have any special methods for identifying that you're offline? You know when Sterling gets disconnected every so often and you get the message box "sterling needs to shut down". But data still comes in regardless and your ATS will only know you're offline when it sends out an order...

Ya, I wrote my own. I remember when I first started out it would take me about 12 hours to backtest my strategies on a year of data (for many stocks). But as I got better at coding, used a faster language, streamlined my data to be read faster, used simpler strategies, upgraded my computer...

Dude, that's your problem right there. Only 1 month of backtested data. Spend the time and download at least a couple years of tick data. I know it takes a lot time but you NEED to do it. It took me months to download years of tick data for 100+ symbols but it was well worth it. And then use 1...

Nice work. I'd help you out but it's beyond me. Very interesting stuff.

Like I tell people, I fight for the crumbs that the institutions leave behind. I'm just a mere mouse making money off their slippage.

Scalability.

I've had it for about 3-4 months. Haven't noticed anything really. Don't use office much so I can't compare. One thing I know is the software for Intel motherboards won't work with SP3 yet. So you can't use the Intel Desktop Control Center where you can control fan speed and overclocking.

Kind of the same one but from XFX. has a fan http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3048552&Sku=P450-8650 only 70 after rebate. i have 2 of these

Can't we call directly from the DLL instead of the TLB library thing?

Any good ones you would like to suggest? Maybe we can discuss them here. From what I've seen, all the ones that give high returns always blow up. The "market mood oscillator" seemed interesting at first until it had that massive drawdown. And then you learn he picks his trades based on the...