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Well, I'll tell you what I use... Personally, I like using daily bars and holding on the one to two week timeframe. Almost all of my successful systems are volatility-based ones that are basically breakout systems. Fundamentals are important only if I take a one-direction bias, but I...

If you haven't paper-traded (a backtested system with a reproducible edge), do it first--for as long as necessary to build your competence, confidence and discipline.

I've tried unsuccessfully to switch from equities to e-minis. The greatest obstacle for me was a lack of education on actual trading strategies. I went in mostly blind. When I learned how to trade stocks successfully, I had read a ton of books and magazines that described backtested trading...

You wouldn't want to lie or embellish about your profession anyway. If the woman doesn't appreciate what you do and what you love, you won't be together for very long. Of course, if that's the intention, then by all means, tell her whatever you want, and your "highly-addictive trading HABIT"...

A guy I knew had a Honda CRX that gets 61mpg city. That was his daily driver, and the family had a larger vehicle for weekend use. That's a great way to save money... Nowadays, with it costing $50 to fill my sedan's gas tank, I'm seriously thinking about demoting it to weekend use and...

Amen, amen! We all know, the first trading software company to truly get in touch with the needs and wants of their client base will OWN the market for trading software. Their application would be the first traders' "KILLER APP," and we'd be flocking to their website by the thousands...

Awesome. I *may* be looking for Level 2 orderbook, but I don't know yet. "Level 1 & Quote Size" appears to be exactly what I need for now. Thanks for the tip!

Can anybody recommend a data vendor who sells ASCII files with bid/ask data plus bid/ask sizes ("bidbook") and executions with execution sizes ("time and sales")? I am specifically interested in the major e-minis, ES, NQ, ER2, etc. Thanks.

SmartQuant's guys like OpenTick's API, so that's an endorsement from some heavy .NET programmers. You might want to ask "amibroker" too.

Roll your own if you know how. If not, you can use Amibroker 4.70 (when it comes out) or [charting app]+Dynaorder if you can't wait. I recommend AGAINST Wealth-Lab Developer unless your systems are extremely simple. And if you are an excellent programmer, you should definitely look at...

May I ask what other solutions you are planning to switch to? (I'm still floating around looking for a new framework or platform to base the next five to ten years of development on...)

Matlab's student edition is only $99. I contacted Mathworks about how the student edition might be "crippled," and they said, "Other than some toolboxes not being available for the student version and the student version not being able to be updated, it is a fully functional version of the...

Actually, knowing that he killed himself is one of the things that makes his writing even more poignant to me. It underlines a lot of the things he did wrong (like "swinging his full line," i.e., not using risk management, and like eventually letting the market get the best of his sanity.) I...

Very true! The technological advances of industrialization decreased the demand for agricultural labor, but these same advances made it possible for us to consume far more than ever before. And to support our growing demand, we had to increase trade with other nations (essentially outsourcing...

Easy claims to make without numbers to back them up. Show us the proof that what I've said is a "statistical lie." The most-recent Census Bureau numbers show that "small business" is this nation's larger source of employment. I can accept rational/logical refutation of their numbers and the...

Pray tell, how exactly is my argument flawed? Time to dig out the old "Critical Thinking" textbook... (My argument *is* flawed, but not in the way you suggest.) [B] Nowhere did I say that EVERYONE in America must become an entrepreneur and that entrepreneurism is the ONLY solution to the...

I hope you're not being serious--few of us would be able to afford jeans made with such high labor costs. As to whether or not the economy would be soaring, I don't know, but it sure wouldn't be soaring because of jeans sales. It'd probably be something else like crops, because a nation that...

Dire predictions about outsourcing have never come true. In the 70s, it was the uproar about outsourcing manufacturing to Japan, Taiwan, etc. Long before that, it was outsourcing of agriculture to other nations such as South America, etc. Remember when America was primarily a nation of...

You want other nasty germ sources? Check out live-performance microphones (usually beat-up Shure SM-58s) and doctor's neckties. Nasty stuff, wot. Add to that women's bathrooms (far more bacteria than men's stinky bathrooms, mainly due to the more bacterially-nutritional fluids that women...

Thanks for your awesome and very interesting response, Gringinho! It should intrigue other hardcore homegrowners and encourage them to contribute to the thread. I've extremely surprised that you're using Java for trading software development and am now encouraged to use Java myself. It was...