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Ok - it looks like my data was completely, ummm, messed up to put it mildly. Thanks to everyone that pointed out how completely off the wall my MACD values were. A flush of the TS6 data cache and a reload fixed that. Whew! I've attached a copy of the revised TS6 code for anyone...

Thanks OldTrader for popping in. Checking my charts/calculations... -eLindy

"If you look at what you are doing it is this. you ignored the "momentarily" which is my obtuse, to some, word for not continually. Since you have made the MACD a continuing requirement along with the Stoc stuff there won't be many trades. So just put it in, momentarily, before or after...

I've modifed the code as suggested - the biggest difference was with the modified MACD limit. Going to 0.4 from 0.04 reduced the number of trades to less than 10 over a two year period. That tells me I've misunderstood how the MACD is used to filter the signals. The MACD filter, as I...

I've been following this thread and today, as an exercise, I decided to try to implement this strategy in EasyLanguage. Unfortunately, it's massively unprofitable when run on 5 min bars over the last two years (the most intraday data that I've got with Tradestation 6). Without commissions and...

I'm not a scalper but, based on what I know about the features that scalpers require, TS6 is not good for that trading style. Here's why: 1. Windows aren't linked. 2. Level 2 not linked to the order bar. 3. There is only one order bar - you cannot have multiple orders staged and...

marketnoize: re:walkforward testing. Good point. The problem is that, the only parameters to this strategy is the "pad" for the breaks of the bars. The strategy simply waits for a break of a high/low of the bar that meets certain conditions. How much the high or low needs to be broken by...

Someone asked a similar question the other day and I mentioned ERlanger (www.erlangerquote.com). Good formula language - costs about 200.00/month between the quote.com feed, the software lease and exchange fees. However, too many complex formulas across a large batch of symbols can really slow...

ERLanger (http://www.erlangerquote.com/). It can be slow if you're trying to filter using a lot of complex criteria on a lot of stocks but it does the job well enough. The formula language isn't a fullblown scripting language though. It uses the quote.com feed so between that, the monthly...

hii a_ooiioo_a: Thanks for the response. SMH did backtest profitably but nowhere near the profitability levels of the likes of QLGC, QCOM, KLAC and other individual issues. I'm not sure whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. Does a robust strategy always backtest well on it's sector...

I've read many times that a strategy should work across as many markets as possible. However, I don't know what that means from a pure numerical standpoint. I have an intraday strategy under development that back-tests well for about 15 stocks - most of which belong to the...

Check the chipset on the motherboard. I know, based on personal experience, that the 850e chipset (for the P4 chip) does not like more than one Matrox card in the computer. In my case, it either refused to recognize the 2nd card (i.e.: computer wouldn't boot) or, if it did, the resolution was...

I use it with a DSL and a Cable Modem line. When I was using it for load balancing (splitting traffic across the two lines), some of my more esoteric applications got confused for some reason. But, most of the mainstream ones worked. I'm using it now where the Cable Modem line is the...

Sorry for the late replies - I was out of town for most of the weekend and I made it a point not to turn on my laptop. Anyway, to answer the questions, I'm running Windows XP Professional. The chipset I'm using is the Intel 850e. I'll check out the suggestion about the scan lines (or...

Hi folks - I just wanted to respond to some of the issues raised in the last three posts: re: eyestrain etc at higher resolutions - the screens are a decent size @ 20.1 inches. With that size and 1600x1200 *digital* resolution, I don't have any issues. The digital output makes things so...

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I checked out the Matrox and the Appian web sites for the recommended cards. The max resolution stated on the web sites is a little different from what their manuals said - turns out that the digital (DVI) output maxes out at 1280 x 1024. It seems to be...

Ok - so I had this image in my head of using six 1600x1200 digital monitors for my trading setup. I figured that it wouldn't be so hard to put a few video cards into a computer to power the six screens. Boy, was I wrong. Over the last few weeks, I've tried just about every combination of...

Ok - so you're staking XXX (BigCO) and you feel sure it's going to move. But, you're not sure whether it's going to retrace before the move or if it's just going to go. So, since you usually risk 2% per trade, you decide to risk 1% now (which, if it goes, would give you an adequate reward...

http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/ You can configure your shortcuts and programs to open up on different screens. Heck - you can even have different screen savers on each screen. -eLindy

Hmmm...would an option be to simply fill all the PCI slots with low-end/run-of-the-mill VGA cards? Trading software doesn't require all that fancy high end gaming stuff that contributes to the power requirements of the cards. With six run-of-the-mill VGA cards plus one harddrive, one floppy...