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See this thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10237 40yotrader claims to use a Martingale strategy, which pulls his system out of drawdown quicker.

Larry Williams provided the best explanation: I would probably trade the markets without wanting profits if it "proved" my worth to the world, to an old girlfriend, to my parents, my brother, or even someone I cannot identify or dredge from the recesses of my mind. Saying I am ego-driven may...

Bruce, how can you tell which server your account is located on?

David Einshit was short Volkswagon, see http://dealbreaker.com/images/thumbs/Greenlight%20Capital%20Letter%20(1-Oct-08).pdf

From the Investors Village OSTK board: What's the difference between OSTK and an investment bank? OSTK has a viable business model.

Because MAs lag. So you shift them forward to account for the lag. See Joe DiNapoli's publications. He likes simple MAs shifted to the right.

Have a look at this strategy Lily: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44092 If you cannot trade during the day, try a market that is open when you're home, maybe the Hang Seng or the DAX.

Here's a couple of great threads that haven't been mentioned yet: 1) Example Trading System: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44092 Covers the development of a trading system for YM. It also works on other futures contracts and is evidently the most profitable on...

Amibroker will send an email based upon virtually any criteria that you would like to set. I used it to send an emails to my gmail account and then monitored for new emails with gmail assistant. Another program is TWSLink, for use with an IBaccount. You can use TWSLink with many TA programs...

I'm not familiar with tickdata.com. Opentick.com is cheap, but I found their data to be unreliable. I have heard though, that they have improved substantially. I think Amibroker with InteractiveBrokers is the cheapest. It's a few hundred dollars for the software and you get data at no...

You need to get data from somewhere to backtest on. Amibroker has an IB plugin so if you have an account with IB, you can feed it with IB data at no additonal cost. The difficulty with IB data is that backfills are not very long, so you cannot backtest over a very long period unless you buy data...

I have never used time stops, unless it was for EOD trading, and then usually the time stop is that an earnings announcement is getting too close. What duration do you use for time stops for intraday trading?

Amibroker is reasonably affordable and will meet your requirements for backtesting index futures with 1 min data. However, I don't believe it will backtest based on constant volume bars. At least I have never found any options for backtesting based on constant volume bars, only for charting.

If you're going to take the trade with the drawdown of 19 ticks and profit from it, your stop will have to be at least 19 ticks. Otherwise the trade will be a loser. So your risk in that situation to profit will have to be at least 19 ticks. The reward is more difficult to calculate, unless you...

That's not much of a rally. How many ticks do you gain by taking that trade? Six ticks? How much drawdown in the other example? 19 ticks? Six up and 19 down, doesn't seem like a very good risk-to-reward ratio.

Ironfist, Instead of going long at the close of the first green handle, how about going long at a limit price no greater than the FastMA? That would reduce a lot of the heat by getting you in at a better price.

Did you consider using TWSLink with Amibroker? It seems to be more capable and is updated much more frequently than IB controller.

28 million people in the US on food stamps and 90% of them are obese.

Any update about vpsland? I was considering signing up there, but if IB's TWS won't run on their virtual servers that's a deal breaker.

This passage from "Come Into My Trading Room" by Alexander Elder: Years ago, when I began my recovery from losing, each morning I held what I called a Losers Anonymous meeting for one. I'd come into the office, turn on my quote screen, and while it was warming up I'd say, "Good morning, my...