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  1. Sam Mcgee

    Data Conversion

    Yes, thank you risktaker. I've looked and tried but this is the only format that Sierracharts will export the data. There is a function where you can export the data to Excel but it will only do this in real time, I can't use it to convert my old files.
  2. Sam Mcgee

    Data Conversion

    The same format would be fine. I just want to convert the time intervals to something larger than the 2 seconds, for instance 1 or 3 minutes. I've made an Excel Spreadsheet to convert it but it will only handle 65000 rows at a time. I'd basically have to convert it a couple of days at a time...
  3. Sam Mcgee

    Data Conversion

    I have more than a year of tick data for NQ, ES and YM futures or data updated about every couple of seconds. It's been exported from Sierracharts. I'd like to convert this to 1 minute, 3 minute or 5 minute data. Does anyone know if there's a program that will convert this data? Here's a...
  4. Sam Mcgee

    How would you test for trendiness?

    You can use indicators, trend lines etc to tell you what the trend is, but as far as I know they are all relative. I don't know of anything that will tell you the price is moving up a certain amount per unit of time. If there is, I'd like to know. For instance, a chart where the price is moving...
  5. Sam Mcgee

    Profitability of a Mechanical System

    I'm getting these results from 100's of trades for many different equities and over different months. The number of trades depends on the period of the intraday bars. Typically I'm using 2 minute bars which gives about 2 or 3 setups a day. Sometimes 1 minute bars work best, sometimes 5 minute...
  6. Sam Mcgee

    Profitability of a Mechanical System

    I've just developed a mechanical method to trade pullbacks. The target is two times the size of the stop. The win ratio is about 50%. Does this sound like a reasonable profit for a mechanical system? Has anyone heard of mechanical systems doing a lot better than that?
  7. Sam Mcgee

    Samsung 912n 19" LCD

    I agree with you, I made that post before seeing the previous post that you could buy it new from Staples or Future Shop for less. I've got some good bargains from Ebay but also gotten burned for a lot of things as well. When you get burned for something, you have to be prepared to take the loss...
  8. Sam Mcgee

    Samsung 912n 19" LCD

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Samsung-912N-Black-19-LCD-Monitor-Open-Retail-Box_W0QQitemZ8726877955QQcategoryZ41808QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
  9. Sam Mcgee

    Possible Etrade Fraud

    Def, I think you're a representative from Interactive Brokers. Would you know what I can do with my Interactive Brokers accounts and computer setup to prevent any unauthorized withdrawls? If someone did take money from my account without authorization would I be liable for it?
  10. Sam Mcgee

    Divergence in housing?

    It is the both the insurer and the insured's responsibility to keep the amount of coverage up to date and adequate. If the company has no proof that they notified you each year advising you to increase your coverage, you should check with your lawyer if you have any kind of a case. Perhaps the...
  11. Sam Mcgee

    Divergence in housing?

    Just curious, how does the insurance company get away with paying less than half of what it is insured for? What is their reason?
  12. Sam Mcgee

    Iran Setting Up Oil Trade Exchange In Euros

    Hey, why do you think we don't have Thanksgiving today like you guys. While you're busy watching football and eating turkey you can't see us secretly buying up as many Euros as we can.
  13. Sam Mcgee

    Iran Setting Up Oil Trade Exchange In Euros

    No, I've never seen South Park. There's nothing called "south" here, it's all north. Have you ever heard of South Toronto? Look on the map, there's no such thing. Have you seen this article?: http://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v09n2p20.htm We won the war in 1812, we can do it again eh.
  14. Sam Mcgee

    Iran Setting Up Oil Trade Exchange In Euros

    Here in Canada they're starting to use the Euro. Could the US invade them as well?: http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/12/25/euro.afar/
  15. Sam Mcgee

    Thanksgiving

    Stupid question here from a Canadian trader who already had his Thanksgiving in October. Are most of the exchanges closed today for Thanksgiving? Should I just go back to bed? Are they closed this Friday too?
  16. Sam Mcgee

    One million dollars work or trade

    What's your friend's expected rate of return? If I was going to invest with myself or someone else, I'd like to see at least a 5 year track record with a minimum return of 15% per year. Who cares what the fees are. All I care about in the end is to get the highest net return with a minimum of...
  17. Sam Mcgee

    Daytrading with 10K (How)?

    You said you didn't want to overtrade your system. I believe you're allowed 5 trades a week with less than 25K. Why not for now, just take one really good setup each day. If after a month or two, you find that you're profitable, you can then figure something out to increase your account size.
  18. Sam Mcgee

    Intraday Data

    Would anyone have an idea how I could obtain intraday data for IBM for 15 minute bars or less? I have it going back to June 22 of this year but I'd like to go back further than that yet. If someone was kind enough to email me a year or more worth, I'd be happy to share the results of my system...
  19. Sam Mcgee

    Iran Setting Up Oil Trade Exchange In Euros

    The American Dollar is just like the Emporer with No Clothes. Better short it as soon as you can. Looks like the United States has succeeded in Iraq, now they have to stop Iran from Switching to the Euro: http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20050916054129788 Even Canada is getting in...
  20. Sam Mcgee

    The Edge Strategy

    I've looked at a lot of trading systems advertised on the net. For almost every system advertised, if I searched long enough I could find negative posts or information from actual users. The only information that I found so far from a few users of this system on the Trade2Win bulletin board...
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