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    Deciding on a Backtesting and Trading Platform

    Sincere apologies for the delay, here is the first document review for TradeStation. Please have a look and comment.
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    Stop Losses are for Losers

    Regarding the question “Are Stop Losses good or bad?”; it is not an easy thing to easy to answer. Stop Losses is like friction, a “necessary-evil”, it helps you to walk but wears out your shoes. Hence, Stop losses do protect you against big losses, but at the same time, its protection...
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    GOLD has topped !

    A good question, JaiSreeram. We can start with this that Gold markets have been ahead of Silver for a very long time. Gold has always been a preferred ornament from times immemorial and been in great demand. The ancient royals wore them. In present times, they are used as a security for loan...
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    Deciding on a Backtesting and Trading Platform

    Sincere thanks JaiSreeram for pointing that out. It did make sense and is a good idea, shall do that. I shall prepare the Word Versions of all the reviews, starting from TradeStation.
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    System Developers Journal

    Greetings everyone, yes I was supposed to do a lot more here. However, there has been a loss of momentum, and I do not feel up to par and shall be more active in this System Journal Thread in the coming week. Apologies to everyone for the delay.
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    Oil would be at $50.00 had the fed

    The Impact Of Dollar Devaluation On The World Oil Industry: Do Exchange Rates Matter? The Price of Oil: Is History Repeating Itself? Offshore247.com - Live Oil Price - Brent Spot vs. dollar/euro Oil back above 100 dollars as OPEC meeting begins Vicious cycle: Rising oil prices, falling...
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    System Developers Journal

    Sincere thanks, Mr. Murray, for your kind explanation regarding the electronic session data.
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    System Developers Journal

    Regarding the development of a plan to trade, including your systems, you need to take into account as to how much capital, you have for trading purposes and which kind of risks you are willing or prepared to take on? Hence, you shall need to develop different kinds of systems based on what...
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    Uranium Stocks and Uranium EFT's, Atomic Energy

    A good question, SuperCruz. However, it does really matter, as if you see the present US elections, you will notice that nuclear energy does play a big role. Democrats are basically more inclined to "environment issues" and would rather use renewable sources of energy than nuclear as they...
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    System Developers Journal

    I have a full time job. Thus, I can only trade at the End-Of-Day. Therefore, as an End-Of-Day trader, I wanted the best platform for developing and testing trading strategies. My position was such that I did not need to worry about the automatic trading and real time. My main aim was to...
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    System Developers Journal

    I bought TradersStudio around 2-3 months ago. Presently, I am working on developing my trading systems using this product. Hence, in this thread I shall discuss the development of the system. You all are requested and invited to follow up on the same and we can discuss a number of and see...
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    Why Would You Trade ETF's?

    Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) are like Mutual Funds, however, they trade like stocks and can be purchased on margin. The above means that if you are having a $4000 account (cash), you can borrow only this much available money (cash) for stocks totalling 8000 numbers. You will need to pay...
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    can u daytrade index futures without margin account?

    In simple words, “Margin in futures” is a good faith deposit, while in “Stocks” you are actually borrowing the money.
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    Uranium Stocks and Uranium EFT's, Atomic Energy

    Please have a look at the following link: Build long-term positions in Uranium stocks Which is considered favorable for the Uranium stocks, the victory of Democrats or Republicans? In other words, will the winning of Democrats or Republicans be good for the Uranium stocks?
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    help calculating gain and loss

    I downloaded the attached file, and it does not seem clear, take for instance, you have two columns on profit and loss. Moreover, you seem to be on margin, and hence shall have some margin interest paid. Please explain the file so that we can discuss further.
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    Deciding on a Backtesting and Trading Platform

    Mr. Murray, the Money Managment thread is indeed a good idea. When do you plan to start?
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    Deciding on a Backtesting and Trading Platform

    Sincere thanks for your active participation. There was a lot of interesting remarks and comments, especially on TradersStudio not being a real time product. Although, it is true, nevertheless, you all are required to please see the following quoted words, (in this post from the thread ...
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    Deciding on a Backtesting and Trading Platform

    An example for the Forex review part. Please have a look at the attached file.
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    Deciding on a Backtesting and Trading Platform

    TradeStation uses a language “EasyLanguage” which helps you to develop your systems. You can migrate the code developed here via the “Migration Tool” of TraderStudio. A point to note that these two software results do not match as TradersStudio results are more closer to the real life...
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    Deciding on a Backtesting and Trading Platform

    CONCLUSION Now, the much awaited conclusion of the whole thread is as follows. I did realize that the thread and reviews are becoming too long and thought of winding it off fast, so that we can discuss the working of TradersStudio more practically via examples. We have reviewed many...
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