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I'm new to gold futures and I'm puzzled by the fact that few people are trading ZG October. In ES, people usually trade the current contract, why is it different in gold? Also, the tick size information on the CME site is vague. Is 1 ZG contract worth 800x10 or 800x100? It's clear that...

I installed Amibroker and then found out that the demo won't allow saving files which makes it not very useful for me in my evaluation. Also the programming language using arrays is very strange to me. I'm sure I could get the hang of it, but for this specific purpose I don't see why I'd need...

I'm curious about liquidity of the ES. Everyone gives liquidity as an advantage of ES over the pit future. Is ES more liquid? Let's say someone wanted to buy 1 million of S&P. Would it be better to buy ES or SP? How many ES contracts could one trade without affecting the market? Could...

Excuse me I actually misspoke. From what I've read the documentation is limited but when one asks questions to the forums the support is ok. Several people have told me that it is time-consuming to learn because one has to read the api and find things out by trial and error, searching...

How so? Do you prefer to write everything from scratch?

This pretty much sums it up. I spent a few hours going over NeoTicker's documentation. They have a lot. So far I'm leaning towards this. I hate the idea of hardware activation so that's a big negative (I live in europe so I'll surely get hit with over 20% in customs fees). I'm a Java...

Can you be more specific? It looks ok to me. I have found that different data providers often have slightly different data. It happens. Shouldn't, but it seems it does.

I'm a Java developer, so learning C# isn't a problem. The problem is that my experience has taught me that the less programming one does the better. So it's good to find a platform which can minimize the programming. :)

To update the thread, I signed up for stockcharts.com and I really like it. I can very quickly go through my list of charts and I like the charts and indicators. Much better than QuoteTracker (for viewing at least) and Fidelity's ActiveTraderPro (which sucks really, but it's fast).

What is the advantage of market on close rather than just programming an order to execute a few seconds before the close? I ask because MOC has one disadvantage: you must put it in 20 minutes before close and you can't cancel it. So I figure there must be an advantage of people wouldn't...

My automated strategy runs completely unattended 24/5 trading the ES and is nicely profitable. I think this is the key. ninjatrader is designed to run automated strategies against 1 or more "instruments". The problem is if one is wanting to trade a basket of stocks. For one the...

I'd like to buy euros for a medium term hold. Can someone tell me the difference between buying 1 EC contract and buying FXE? From what I see the margin requirement for EC is $2400. So if I buy 1 contract at 1.474 and it goes up to 1.50 I calculate: 1.50 - 1.474 = 0.026 1 point =...

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm relatively new at trading (less than 1 year) so maybe I could learn from their technique.

I just signed up for a free trial and I'm not sure what to think. For example, looking at their trading system it seems to return around 30%. It also has a huge drawdown. the emini strategy went up to 100k and is now at 27k. I'm just wondering if people consider that good or bad? Also...

I'm debating this same issue and I'm curious what the OP decided to use. I don't do any trades during the day, so all my chart studying is done outside market hours. Basically i want to set up charts of everything I want and just cycle through them. So far it seems Stockcharts.com is...

I looked at the custom tick indicator video. Seems like a hack, but maybe it's capable of more. They use an equation with variables LAST1 LAST2 LAST3 etc. What if I make the cunparis500? Do I have to code that up? What I'm looking for is to make a real index. Figure out how it's...

I thought of Excel but I want to create oscillators and moving averages, etc. and I'd like to see them graphically. That'd be a lot of work for Excel.

Does this include ninajtrader? I'm learning ninjatrader so far and even though I'm a software programmer (Java) I feel lost. But they have great support and good videos so I'm making progress.

Every time I get interested in NeoTicker I search the net and find lots of people complaining about it and so I skip it. It is rather expensive. If it's just for the index creation I could use the EOD version. But I'm also looking into Ninjatrader for trading during the day so then I'm not...

I'd like to create my own index based on some stocks. I'd like to track it and compare it to the other indexes. I'd like to see the moving averages, MACD, etc. I've searched but I haven't found software that will let me do that. does such a thing exist? I thought about creating something...