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I am working on my Seiki 39" 4k right now (I also have 42" and 55" 4k monitors). The text is very sharp and easy to read. When you buy a 4k tv you need to go in and change the settings so that it works as a monitor. My vision sucks, these are the best monitors I have ever used.

40" 4k monitors are running around $250. I have a 39", a 42", and a 55" ($340) that I haven't hooked up yet (I do watch movies on it). The 39" now looks small to me. I'm a programmer so screen real estate is a big plus.

It doesn't take much computing power to process streaming tick data. I use IQFeed. I checked CPU usage right after the market opened, running systems on around 1200 of the most liquid symbols (stocks). On an old i7 (1.7 ghz) laptop I was running about 3% cpu usage. -David

https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chair I have this chair and their Smart Desk. Phenomenal deal. This is a new company with products started via KickStart. There are reviews on YouTube. David

This is not true in my experience. There is no flicker on a 4k monitor at 30 hz like there is on an old tube. 60 hz is the new norm for inexpensive TV's. A cheap graphics card will run a 4k monitor at 60 hz. A new i7 will run a 4k monitor at 30 hz with no additional graphics card. I run...

No reason. I have two 42 inch 4k TV's that I use for monitors. They are just amazing. TV's like these can be had for $250 to $350. My second one even had a monitor setting in the setup menus so I didn't have to go through the settings to get everything correct for monitor use. Now when the...

It's the real time data that is correct. Historical data contains trades that were not made on the exchanges (think funds and brokers trading among themselves). Those trades are reported later but appear in the historical data. Those trades can sometimes be far away from the current bid and...

I use a Seiki 39 inch 4k monitor. It works great. You can get it from Newegg for close to $300. Seiki has a new 42 inch 4k that works at 60 hz for $350. Read the reviews all over the internet. Lots of people are using them as monitors. I really love mine. One disadvantage is you can angle...

The September 2015 issue of TASC has an article on the Breakout Relative Strength Index. From the article, I am not able to recreate the charts in figure 2. I am obviously missing something. If anyone can describe the algorithm in more detail (better, different) I would appreciate it. I have...

Mainly for more symbols. Sometimes I am watching more than 1,000 symbols for specific events to occur. If it happens great, otherwise that system won't have any trades that day.

Hey TC, Your approach seems fine. Better than most. I use IB as my broker and IQFeed for my datafeed. You only need to update to IQFeed if you need it's features. I think AmiBroker is a good choice. You can do a lot for not much money. I have recently started fooling around with...

I really like IB's paper trading account. I have run the same automated system both live and paper trading, at the same time, and get very similar results. It appears that IB simulates where you would be in the queue and takes the ask at the time when you would be filled. I have had less...

I'm looking at MultiCharts .Net, but a requirement for our algorithmic trading group is that we can get TASC Traders' Tips code (C# is required). Does anyone know if Traders' Tips code is available? Thanks P.S. We are mostly all programmers of some sort, EasyLanguage to professional. The...

I use DTN IQFeed which supplies data to kinetick, so probably not. Historical bars are probably "corrected", and those trades did take place, just not so you could take advantage of them. This sort of thing really screws up back testing. Oh well. IQFeed can supply up to around 1800 symbols...

I believe these spikes are trades that were not traded on the exchange (trades between brokers or funds), and then reported later. I see these all the time on daily data, but if you look at tick data those prices were never hit. The only way I know to avoid this is to collect tick data to use...

Thanks for the investing humor. I laughed. Seriously, my trading has never set the world on fire and probably would not impress you or anyone else. Take care, -D

No, I lose a little bit on each trade... but I make it up on volume.

Yes, use separate arrays. Don't use a data base to store your data-sets. Take care.

I believe the get() and set() will be optimized out by the JIT. There is no speed penalty. That said, when I am using a class that is equivalent to a C struct, and only use it locally, I just make the variables public. It is really much cleaner IMHO. Though I use only Java now, I was a C++...

Hi vicirek, Be very careful about the assumptions on the structure of the data in a data engine. When I built my trading platform I spent a lot of time exploring different data structures and architectures. My primary concern was speed and flexibility, processing tick data for a large...