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Are you able to expand upon and argue that position, or are you just trying to frighten the young'uns?

I started out with probably too much money, and I lost a lot of it. For a long time, I couldn't shake a certain skepticism. I wondered if it really WAS possible to make money daytrading from home, whether IT wasn't all a big scam, or, at best, whether you didn't need some secret I didn't...

If so are you using Tradestation?

Not really - at least not currently. There's discussion but as yet no details that I've seen on incorporating a version of RadarScreen (the Omega Research scanning software) in an upcoming major upgrade, and in the meantime there's some stuff you can do to automate a search process at least...

I don't claim to be an authority on assessing the financial stability of companies - but, then again, these days that might count as a qualification. The following link should take you to a page that in turns links to a report on TS's most recent earnings report, as well as analyst coverage...

If you're going to insist on continuing your one-man campaign against Tradestation, you should at least try to keep your information up to date. Even setting aside the peculiarity of your personal situation, which you have elsewhere gone on and on about at great length, but which seems to...

Are you using the TS6 and TS data? The free data provided from Historybank.com (for 2000i and Omera Research-era software) seemed dirty and gappy enough to make a lot of intrady testing close to pointless, but the TS6 data has always seemed relatively good to me. You could try a filter...

Lippi's solution will prevent you from immediately re-entering on the next bar after position is closed by the trailing stop (presuming stock is still above the HOD), and is worth noting - not least because it will be sufficient for other signals and in other situations to prevent immediate...

The hardcore programmer types find it woefully limited and simplistic. Can't satisfy everyone. As a total amateur when it comes to programming, I find EL kind of fun, and, so far at least, more than adequate for my trading purposes - though I do wish they'd integrate it further with the...

or get the Rina Systems add-ons ($$$$): http://www.rinafinancial.com/ also linkable through tradestationzone.com (which Rina created).

Hmmm... I believe the IDHIGH and IDLOW functions come with versions of TS6. If you're using TS6, you might want to check under functions and see if they're present. If not, I don't know why not... If you're using 2000i or something earlier, or in any event don't have the functions, you might...

Gee - no one else will answer the question, so y'all are leaving it to me again? Here's one way to do it: VARS: BBUY(0), SSELL(0), CUTOFF(0); CUTOFF = sess1starttime + 30; If time <= CUTOFF then begin BBUY = IDHIGH; SSELL = IDLOW; end; If time >= CUTOFF and time <...

Do you think the problem is more in something you're doing differently, or in something the market is doing differently? If you're not confident in your answer, then a first step would be to review your trades (from good periods and bad) and their contexts in as much detail as you can stand...

This thread has turned into a way for those us still learning about EL to compare notes and help each other out. There's been a lot of discussion of TS on this site, as well as reviews of the brokerage and the software. I suggest you search for the material and read through it. My own...

Thanks for pointing out the exception, which is not very well covered in the EL documentation, as far as I can tell. I knew you could write "next bar on open" orders, but I didn't know that you could add or subtract from the next bar's open. Learn something every day... My point about EL...

You have to remember that EL reiterates at the close of each bar: Only then does it set up reactions that will take place during subsequent bars. It doesn't "know" at the end of whatever current bar what the open of the next bar is going to be. Think of it as creating trigger points that can...

Since I know you don't mind, um, correction, just let me say: Don't forget the risk of divide by zero error (could happen if H = L, as it sometimes does). Might want to try: If H - L <> 0 then begin If (C[0]-L[0]) / (H[0] - L[0]) > .8 then begin {Insert your code on this line}...

The ADX breakout strategy uses high ADX readings as a screening tool - for strength of trend - to identify tradables. I won't go into the details, but the particular strategy is pretty simple. Wouldn't trade it myself (though not because it's too simple). For a while, you could use the...

You can do that stuff with Excel pretty easily. All the info in the Account Manager can be cut-and-pasted directly into worksheets. Of course, you have to learn how to use Excel if you don't already know how to - but that turns out, I have found, to be very useful for many trading- and...

If you're scalping in the old-fashioned way (does anyone do that anymore?), then, those percentages can certainly turn into real money, but if you're not doing 20+ trades a day, then it's not a huge difference. I max out at around 10 trades a day - such as today. I would have saved about $20...