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holy crap $8400 for 6 yrs of 15-min data of all equities...

Whats the best place to purchase historical stock data, say 60 min and 15 min going back 10 years for Nasdaq stocks? Are we allowed to purchase data from other members of ET?

maybe they're trying to save money by focusing on the product? thats what they claim on their website for not having a contact number i have started using Amibroker and their website isn't the greatest but the support is pretty good, i got an answer within 24 hrs on a Saturday. the...

you can sign up for Al Brook's live webinars where he talks about price action throughout the day. he doesn't post his trades live though due to regulatory measures...but you get an idea of his thought process google "Al Brooks Webinar" its $100 a month but if you're a beginner i doubt...

Ok so I've narrowed it down to these 3: Investor RT PROS: easy to learn and use, powerful, supposedly fast, great support CONS: $100+ per month AmiBroker PROS: one time fee of $199 (plus other misc crap) CONS: harder to learn Ninjatrader PROS: free, easy to use for simple...

how difficult is it to learn to code a strategy?

damn that does look good...certainly beats investor rt's $100/month

a simple strategy on a basket of Nasdaq stocks looking to buy after a strong selloff i plan to backtest other strategies later on as well i just want to know where to focus my time on which software to learn. right now i'm leaning towards Investor RT (although it is $100/month)

Just so I can get an idea, how long did it take you to learn how to use Multicharts? 2 months? 6 months? 1 yr?

Putin - thanks, I figured every language had a learning curve. At this point I think I'll stick with Investor RT for the time being. WS_MJH - You don't "need" to know C# but it definitely helps alot so that you can go into the code and tweak it to your liking. But its not too bad, the code...

Which backtesting software has the shortest learning curve? I've been trying out Investor RT and Ninjatrader. Tradestation was not as easy to learn as I had hoped. Ninjatrader has a pretty good interface for simple commands but if I wanted to get more in detail with my strategy I realized I...

how long did it take you to become consistently profitable?

This guy was in your shoes: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10237 and he made it.

lol, i bumped this thread to see what was going through people's minds back in 2003...so interesting

Found this old gem of a thread back in '03 Looks like the OP knew what to look for.

thanks for your advice lindq, i always like reading your posts i'm loving investor RT btw

that would be my ideal situation. learn how to write covered calls, iron condors, double calendar spreads or what have you and collect 4-7%/month. with a $100k account i could make a decent living. but i'd have to watch out for large volatility spikes like we've been having currently and...

are you doing discretionary trading or mechanical system trading?

I know, I was worried my comment would be miscontrued that way. I wasn't expecting an exciting novel when I was reading options. I just meant that watching the options video was much more engaging than reading about it. I was wondering if anyone had any good videos to recommend. I have...

Thanks guys. Someone told me it was harder to learn options but easier to profit consistently from trading options. I will focus my time on stocks and futures for the time being.