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You won't find any free source of intraday 1-min data. Depending on the stocks you are testing, one of these DVDs may be of help http://pitrading.com/historical_data.htm If you need a bigger universe or higher resolution than 1-min, try http://tickdata.com/html/equities.shtml

I think Blocks http://www.blocks.com/ can handle intraday for subscribers. EOD data/scanning is free.

I second that on Blocks.

If you have an account with IB the feed will be cheap ($10? a month) Otherwise you are looking at TradeStation or eSignal for YM data.

ES has very little slippage. Using stop orders, maybe 1 in 20 of my orders will slip 1 tick ($12.50 USD); all others fill at exact price. Liquidity is only getting better and better. I trade between 3 and 15 contracts.

I can't agree more. I don't understand why some think they can save a few bucks in hiring the lowest bidder but don't understand that bad programming can cost them real money in the long run. Programming a simple call to place an order on IB is simple. But a real application has to be...

You are trying to convert the data into a continuous contract? Best method I have found is volume adjusted. Compute volume for the front and first back-month contracts and roll to the next contract when the volume of the back-month contract exceeds the volume of the current front month contract.

Are you referring to the Susquehanna in Bala Cynwyd, PA?

How about this reason. He is a thief. All the TTM indicators can be downloaded for free from the tradestation user forum. All he did was slap TTM in from of their name and charge a heavy price.

Try IVolatility.com

See this ebay faq on 2008 changes: http://pages.ebay.com/sell/update08/overview/index.html

Powersellers are also selling stolen stuff. They have large groups that run on ebay. They are legit in that they will send you stuff, they have great customer support. Only thing is the stuff is stolen. Many companeis complain but ebay ignores since they make so much in fees off the warez...

One of the evening CNBC business shows did a story on it late last year.

TradeStation has simulated accounts now (including the ability to automate strategies). But you must have an actual retail account and subscribe to the data feeds you want simulated.

The only reason most new items are 40% to 60% off on ebay is because they are stolen. Ebay = Electronic Fencing.

Yang is already going to have to answer to his shareholders for this. Do you thnk he would further dilute the company?

I think the MSFT upside will be muted since MSFT may just go and buy YHOO on the open market or just go and look for some other search company to buy. MSFT has $44 billion it wants to spend. I don't think they are gonig to put the money back in their piggy bank.

If YHOO share price drops, what about MSFT? I don't see MSFT going up all that much in relation to the big drop in YHOO.

TC2000 for $20 or $30 a month. worden.com Great EOD source and has tons of sector/industry groups.

Thanks for the link.