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All of your advise here is very helpful. Yesterday I spent the entire afternoon with Tradestation trying to get it to sound an alert when the price crosses a moving average. I didn't succeed. In about 3 minutes this morning I set the same alert with Ensign. In about an hour I had alerts set for...

I would use Interactive Brokers data to feed either Tradestation or Metastock. I have that set up to work with Hyperserver: http://www.hypertrader.it A couple of bad ticks would throw my system off yes but I haven't seen many problems with the feed from IB. I was starting to look now at...

I have a simple mechanical trading method that I've tested to be relatively profitible. It uses one minute bars, the slope of a moving average and moving average channels. It's almost impossible for me to trade manually. To do that I would have to watch the computer constantly for hours on...

I got this email today from Ensign: Hi, Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I saw the same problem with the playback and have it fixed for the 10-28 version I will upload as an upgrade later this afternoon. Ensign's web site is www.ensignsoftware.com. Sincerely, Howard...

I just learned of this site (from Trendvue which has a free trial today) where which lists upcoming news announcements: http://www.nasdaq.com/econoday/calendar/US/EN/New_York/year/2003/month/10/day/28/daily/index.html Does anyone know which of those news announcements are important and...

Why does everyone always worry when the oil/gas price goes up? Stop and think about it for a bit. There is far too much traffic on the road already. Whenever there is a hike in gas prices this always results in a slight decrease of the traffic. There are a lot of people out there driving around...

Does anyone else notice that on the playback for any of the futures for Ensign for IB, that the price scale is incorrect? I checked on the Quote.com version of Ensign and that works fine. I sent an email to Ensign about it but have yet to receive a reply. Theres an attachment here illustrating...

Here's a quote from this site: http://internetcasinolist.com/articles/101102.html First of all, let's distinguish betting systems from money management. While money management is also unable to guarantee a win, and has no mathematical impact on the game, it's often not a bad idea for a...

Have three different indicators or three different settings of the same indicator, one long term another middle term and the third even shorter term. Set appropriate stops. If the long term indicator is trending up and you entered long, exit when the middle term indicator shows a peak or...

Thats great news that Ensign finally did this. Is there also a way to program Ensign to send orders to TWS?

Thanks guys, I forgot that it was that simple, rise over run. I should have remembered that and the friction coefficient of ice covered shingles before I fell off the roof last year.

The formula for a simple moving average for 10 bars is simply the total of the last 10 closing prices divided by 10. Would anyone know how you could calculate the slope of that moving average? I hope I don't have to relearn all the calculus I did 25 years ago. It was hard enough already way back...

I've attached a simple spreadsheet that I use for manual backtesting of trading ideas. I find it a lot quicker than trying to translate an idea to code and running an automatic backtest. There aren't any instructions with it but it should be pretty straightforward when trying to use it.

I came upon a system more or less by accident this week. I read about a system here posted by Ditch. The system basically entered a trade in the direction of a trend dictated by stochastics. You would only enter when the price hit the opposite side of the donchian channel of the trend direction...

A network cable looks like a phone cable on steroids. Instead of four wires it has 6. A crossover cable is a network cable that has the 6 wires in it crossed over. You can use this when you want to network only two computers. If you have three or more computers you have to use regular network...

I'd prefer 3 computers over 3 monitors connected to one computer. I'd hate to have to depend on a single computer for my trading. I'd consider keeping your old computer for backup and connecting it to your new computer. All you need is a couple of network cards (included with most new computers)...

Why don't you look at an upgrade kit? I upgraded a couple of computers this year myself for only about $300 each and they work great. It's not hard at all to do yourself. Its not a lot harder than adding a new component to your stereo system. You may end up spending a little more time and...

Whenever someone wants to lose some weight, they go out and buy an expensive new exercise machine. When they want to improve their golf game they buy an expensive set of clubs. People always think that if they buy some expensive equipment that it will automatically help them with their...

Why would you want to trade more than 3 times a week with an Etrade or Ameritrade account anyway? You'd probably be spending far more on commissions than any profit you could make. The only one with reasonable commissions in Canada is Interactive Brokers but they'll apply the PDT rule for...

In my opinion Elite Trader is the best bulletin board if not the best site on the net for traders. I'd just like to make a couple of suggestions to make the site even better. 1. I think the list of "Discussion Topics with Recent Posts" should be expanded. I check it several times a day for...