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Recall that I want today's daily bar to end with certain conditions as a set up to entering at tomorrow's open. With EL there does not appear to be a way, staying with daily bars, to nail the open in backtesting. But...if I use a smaller time frame as a 2nd data stream, like 5 min bars, then at...

"Bars before the market open". Yes, I think you may have nailed it.

Thanks. That's what I thought might be the case in EL. Previous day would likely be daily bars for a setup, then minute bars the next day at the open. Which again begs the question if the actual daily open can be nailed at all in EL if backtesting needs to wait until the first minute bar of...

Are you experienced with Easy Language? Great. I have a question for you before I engage with Tradestation. I want to be able to code a system that I currently trade, and have developed with another platform. It's a very simple system, but in my reading and watching of Easy Language...

I lived on the water for a year, and have close relatives who own a major business on St. Croix. I know those islands well. I would never advise anyone moving there unless they have an escape plan for moving back to the mainland. "Try it before you buy it" is the way to go.

Sailing the islands is paradise. Living on them is not, unless you can afford to throw a few million into a private retreat on St. John with a view like this.

Big deal. Between 2018 and 2028, my house will go to 10MM. And I can live in it.

During a gold rush, sell shovels. During a crypto craze, be a market maker. There's always another sucker waiting in line.

If you look at a painting, I'm going to assume that you have enough knowledge and experience to understand the process by which it got painted. You would also, I assume, agree that there was a painter who engaged in the process by which the painting came to life. (Pardon the pun.) Now, are...

Why don't you begin by defining "bars". What timeframe are you dealing with?

Look at a long term chart of inverse ETFs, and you'll see that they degrade. They don't track their positive twin. So you'll need to keep searching for your Holy Grail.

However, your service agreement, which you require a user to accept, says this: 3.4 License to Your Content. You grant Company a fully paid, royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform, and publicly display Your Content (in...

Where are algos and strategies stored? My side, or your side? Are they public information?

The most you can make on the trade at any time - no matter how high the price of PLTR - is the premium at the time you entered the trade. However, your potential for loss is substantial if PLTR falls. So your decision now is whether to take an early profit, or hold until expiration with the...

You can always use a hammer. Low tech and more effective. But because the average trader loses much more than he wins, one could reasonably suppose that there are already some masochistic tendencies. Thus, adding more pain would be counterproductive.

You can't make general statements regarding the viability of trading around earnings reports. There are an infinite number of input variables that are particular to a report and company in that timeframe and under those specific market conditions. Each situation is completely unique, and...

To summarize some good advice here: 1. Get out of the weeds and the noise of intraday charts. 2. Try to narrow your focus to one/two instruments, one strategy. 3. Set ups are on daily charts. Recent highs, lows, opens, closes. Follow up entry is often what happens the next morning. 4. In...

Stop Losses or Stop Signs. You can choose to ignore them even once, and suffer catastrophic consequences. Is it worth it? Nope.

The surprising fact in this report, if true, is that nearly 50% of equity market volume is in ETFs, and not stocks.

The answer is no. IB permits only 3 conditions, and will not run calculations as you described.