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Lescor - Thanks for posting your results. It may be helpful to newcomers (like myself) if you would briefly discuss your trading style. Your journal is very long and few would have the fortitude to try to gather this informating by reading through it. Anyway, thanks again for posting.

Thanks for your input Rufus. As always, it adds much needed substance and sanity. I would like to know how complex the profitable programs generally tend to be. That is, roughly, how many lines or pages of EasyLanguage (assuming they can be coded in EasyLanguage) are typically required...

Hello, I would like to hear from people who have developed and/or used an automated trading system profitably. There is no need to describe the system (unless you want to - and then you can certainly leave out any critical details). I would just like to know how prevalent such systems are...

Hello, I am leaning to use EasyLanguage for TradeStation. I was just wondering what to expect from strategy automation. If anyone can provide their real life experiences, good or bad, with automated trading, I would certainly appreciate it. Norm

Thanks risktaker! I believe that the code that you provided shows me how to follow the price down while applying a buy stop at each price level along the way. This is what I wanted. I appreciate your help. Have a great Christmas! Norm

Hi risktaker, Thanks for your patience! The trailing buy would be initiated by a setup. It doesn't really matter what the setup is. When a predefined pattern is recognized, the the trailing stop buy will execute. That is, I am not looking to code the specific condition that invokes...

Hi risktaker, What I am considering is a trailing buy stop that requires the entry of two parameters (inputs). The first would be where the trailing stop is invoked. It could be a delta or offset from the current price (as of the time that the trailing buy stop instruction is executed) or...

Thanks for the reply risktaker. I am not sure which, if any, of the categories that you mentioned apply. As you know, a normal trailing stop simply sells a position when the price of a stock stops moving upward and dips enough to trigger the stop. What I want is just the reverse. I want...

Hello, I have searched, but cannot find a trailing buy stop in Easy Language. That is, I want to follow a price down and then purchase when the price moves up slightly (the opposite of a trailing stop for selling a position). If anyone knows where I can find trailing buy stop code for...

jdollarr states that: "TS optimize engine is not multi processor/core capable". When I am only running a TS optimization on my dual core machine, something is using 30% of one processor and 60% of the other. These numbers do not seem consistant with normal house keeping chores and no other...

Hello, I am new to using TradeStation for backtesting. Yesterday I ran an optimization that took about 20 hours to complete. I can foresee much longer optimization later. I have a dual core Pentium D machine with 2 gigs of RAM. While running, I noticed that one process was 30% busy and...

Has anyone summarized the results of some of the journals. Is there a simple way to determine how the journal keepers have done? Thanks, Norm

Can I use tick data (or a tick chart for backtesting) for automated trading with TradeStation? Thanks, Norm

I am presently learning to automate trading. I am doing this through TradeStation. I am happy with their product so far. I have discovered that there are many nuances to automation that do not seem to be covered in the readily available documentation (like the books available via Amazon)...

Companies like DRW use proprietary methods to trade a variety of instruments, incuding equities, using their own money. Is anyone here familiar with these methods and can they be used by individual daytraders? Norm

Do large financial institutions have traders who actually speculate in equities on their behalf? Do they daytrade, swingtrade, or what? Thanks, Norm

I understand that to get the lowest commissions (or no commissions at all), it is necessary to have a seat on an exchance. Do anyone know if a daytrader can obtain a seat on NASDAQ or otherwise become a member? Thanks, Norm

Hello, My understanding is that automated trading system can work if they are appropriate for the prevailing market conditions. This seems to make sense. For example, an automated trading system that is biased toward going long will tend to work well during a market up trend and...

You are truly a scholar among men. Norm

Does anyone know of any serious trading publications, such as peer review journals? I am particularly interested in those that address quatitive analysis and automation of trading. What do the quants read? Thanks! Norm