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I assume you are trading 5 to 10 contracts at a time. Do you always use the same number, or do you change it from trade to trade?

Sure thing.

Two simple things first (no insult intended)... 1) Have you added and payed for ActiveX to your eSignal account? 2) Did you call SetApplication("username") with your eSignal username? In otherwords, you need to change that piece of code in the sample for it to work.

No. Unless they just added one. They do charge if you need tech support with regards to using the API.

Yes. I'm using it. After RealTick kept dying, I finally got fed up and moved my app to eSignal's ActiveX control. There are a few areas where the control needs improvement, IMHO, but it is "version 1.0" and has a lot of potential for improvement. I will also say that my eyes feel that the...

Voice Over IP, I am guessing.

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Rodden said that the bands don't track price. I was only pointing out that they do indeed follow price. I wasn't suggesting any value or non-value of a simple moving average for use in calculations. I think that is what I said, no? The bands track price. Rodden said they didn't.

The width of the bands tracks volatility. But, the volitility bands are centered on a simple moving average of price. If price goes up, the band center slides up. The bands do track price via their center. "Look ma, I can capture 95% of the range as long as I contstantly move the center of...

Are you sure you set them to 1280x960 resolution? That isn't the native resolution as far as I know. I believe 1280x1024 is native for that monitor. For the best image on an LCD, be sure to use its native resolution.

Uptick rule, downtick rule. Potato, potato. Yes. I meant the uptick rule. But by correlation it is also a downtick rule.

You can use the search feature here on EliteTrader to learn everything there is to know about them. The quick answer is that by combining long stock and a put option, you get a "bullet" which allows you to sell stock on a downtick. Thus, getting around the downtick rule. The SEC has recently...

There is no downtick rule for futures or ETF's.

Try defraging the drive instead. But, to answer the question, multiple reformats shouldn't hurt the drive more than any normal read/write access (as that is all it is doing).

Reminds me a bit of a failure of the classic "Three Methods" candlestick pattern. Similar initial setup, but you would (in this case) buy the break of the first bars high (A). Three Methods is a continuation pattern traditionally and I'm not sure it really looks like an up trend in this chart...

BTW, I just want to let everyone know that I am happy that eSignal has chosen to release an end-user API. It isn't perfect yet, but it is a very good start and if they listen and consider and implement (the good) suggestions from all the developer input the receive, it can only get better...

Most definitely. This isn't so much of a problem (for me) with daily or minute bars, since I only process a few hundred to thousand at most at a time of those. The problem is if your app needs to load time and sales data for the day on something like the ES which can easily produce 300,000...

An event is triggered that tells you that the array of bars has changed. You then call a method to determine what the change was and a function to get the data. In very rough pseudo-code, here is an example of an event handler you might write. myOnBarChangedEvent(symbolHandle) { count...

I thought the transition doesn't occur until next week?

Ah. Well, that does sound messed up. No doubt.