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I am sure this is nothing compared to what some other people have around here have but for me this is working great. The monitors have been bought over time without the intent of creating such a setup so they are not the same model. However, they still perform the function of serving as a...

If someone discovered a way to profitably forecast moves in finance markets using technical analysis, they probably would not be publishing a study on it. In that regard, studies regarding the validity of TA are greatly biased.

yep :)

Rearden, I will not be using it for that long. I will only need it long enough to hold me over until I can get myself another job. Having $1.5 million collecting 5% gives me more than enough time and financial freedom to get a degree and a new job in case I need it. If you what you are saying is...

I would go with the plain white cover. The blue gradient has somewhat of an old look look to it. The white looks new and sharp.

I appreciate the constructive criticism Rearden Metal (I mean that seriously, not with sarcasm) but allow me to further elaborate. I have taken this into consideration. Given a 5.00% rate of return, subtract taxes and inflation, I would still be making enough. I did neglect to mention that I...

I am also 19 years old and currently going through the same situation. After much deliberation, I have decided to get my bachelor's degree. My class schedule is arranged so I can still trade. Admittedly, life would be easier without the classes but as the saying goes, "the harder choice is...

Throughout the course of the past 2 years, I have developed a passion for reading. My only problem is that there is such a huge selection to choose from and that is where I am turning to the ET community for some help. My goal is to read at least 3 to 4 books per week - at least 1 or 2 of them...

Thank you Anton for that informative reply. I was not aware that OpenQuant is capable of back-testing on this level. I had downloaded a trial of it before but got caught up in some things and was not really able to utilize the trial. I am wishing I had since it might have saved me a lot of...

Pertaining to SmartQuant, when running back-tests are you sure that it performs calculations on a tick by tick basis rather than just the time interval selected? For instance, if I were to run a test on a 7 minute time-frame and enter a trade at 1520 with a profit target set at 1522 and a stop...

For quite some time now, I have been looking for a new trading system development, testing and deployment platform. Unfortunately, every time I feel that I have found an appropriate solution I have run into a ceiling of some sort. I had recently started a thread regarding Excel which had its...

I am sure that Excel has the potential to be something useful but given the breadth of negative reviews, I will be looking into other potential platforms (IE: Trader's Studio, Matlab, creating a custom solution). I do not want to veer this thread off topic so I will be posting my inquiries on...

I am aware that it may seem awkward to provide answers on my own question thread but why not if I can right? I would not imagine second intervals to pose a problem. You could get data on a second interval and import it into excel or get tick data and aggregate it into a second interval data set.

Several people have told me that Microsoft Excel makes for very a powerful trading system development platform. Admittedly, my knowledge of utilizing excel for trading system development and back-testing is less then what I would like it to be. I have looked through the web for tutorials but the...

Thank you Cy_m. The compliment is much appreciated and I will carry the advice with me.

Developing a charting, development and execution platform for security purposes would be overkill for me. However, I am working on my own system development platform for functionality purposes :)

I have been trading for about one year now. I started when I was 18 and I am headed towards my junior year in college this coming semester. If you looked at my transcript, I am nothing exceptional. In fact, my high school transcript probably has idiot written on it somewhere. I am currently a...

I understand where you are coming from being that I tend to go overboard on security myself. To test that my software was not distributing my strategies, I checked the outgoing and inbound connections to my internet connection. I then loaded up my software and checked the connections to check...

I understand what you are saying about opportunity and why it is important but I do not believe that it is entirely correct. Undoubtedly there are opportunities which present themselves and beg to be taken advantage of but this is not the case the majority of the time. I believe that the truly...

well said jtnet