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Hi, I'm new to automated trading. I've written a simple strategy in MultiChart based on 1 min bars. MultiChart(a clone of tradestation), will display the buy/sell signal on to the chart. The problem is that I want to look at 15min bars while trading and monitoring, but in order for the...

IB has MIT and LIT orders but no Stop if Touched or Trail if Touched. or at least I don't know how to place such orders. Let say I bought a stock at 20 and want to place a sell stop order at 24 if the stock reaches 25. Doe anybody know how to do this with IB? Thanks

It's getting worse and worse. The market's been open for an hr now, I'm still waiting for all my backfills to complete. And I'm only asking for 15 stocks.

You don't need 2 seperate databases. I'm using AMIBroker and you can switch from whatever time period to other time period with no problem. However some times the software eats past data. I've had 20 years of daily data shrunk down to 6 months. Dosen't happen often, so it's not that big a deal...

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Hi Dougcs, is macro express an addon? I went to the link you provided, it seems like I have to install a custom dll and then insert codes to strategies in order to jump from one stock to the next. Do you have link for the macro express itself? I'm reading the Tradestation forum but there's a...

I know a little VB but it's limited. The easylanguage in Tradestation was fairly easy to pick up and write a strategy. It's just hard to test a large sample of stocks to optimize. I guess to truly do everything I need to do is to write the codes my self with VB and my own data. I'm gonna check...

hi psytrade, I'm trying to backtest on intraday data going back for years. Currently I dont' have the data to use in Amibroker, plus the coding in Amibroker is a little outta my league. Splat. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

Hi, does anyone know how to backtest a strategy on hundreds of stocks or even thousands in Tradestation? Right now the only way I know to backtest a strategy is to apply it to a chart, and change the symbol to see how it performs on different stocks. But this is a very slow way to gather...

Take a look at Amibroker. Decent charting, one time fee. Pretty reasonable.

thanks for clearing that up apex! I missed your post about the remaining balance earning interest, now I understand. If nothing else changes, I'll lose about 4% by putting on the EUR/USD trade compared to just staying in dollar. But with the upcoming ECB interest hike and the end of fed's...

Hi, I've never traded currencies before and didn't even realize the interest part of the game. Thanks to all the ppl helping out and explaining this, here is my question... if I have 50k at IB and I want to buy 50k EUR/USD and hold it for 1 year, the current interests are 2.69% for EUR and...

Okay thanks, I was trying to figure out if the problem was on my end. Everythings seems to be back to normal now.

Hi, I'm using AmiBroker with IB backfill. Is anybody else having problems with the IB backfill today? Normally it takes 4 to 5 seconds to backfill a stock, right now it's taking up to 30 min.:mad: