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If I'm using my discretion and not waiting for a signal when trading NQ e-minis(which is quite often) I only look at three charts: -3min bar chart with 20pd simple moving average and all support and resistance lines drawn from the trade prospector software. -5min candlestick chart with a...

onlinetradingselect.com uses the same software. efloortrade has a better automated interface.

Sure there is a threat of margin calls just like anything else if you don't have the funds to meet the requirement the broker will sell you out or tell you to increase your equity. the spreads are small on eminis during market hours so unless you try to trade in the middle of the night you...

Well, concerning software I started with Qcharts, then moved to Ravenquote, now I've moved to Tradestation2000. I'm not really sure what else is out there(I'm happy TS). I've heard about Neoticker and ensign. You might want to try those. That pushpop dll is already written for you by the...

dkamp, http://www.traders2traders.com/code&overviews/pushpop.htm

Excuse me but, Don you seem to be trying to drum up business for your stock firm by bashing the best trading vehicle available:). The best traders in the world trade futures. E-minis also lend themselves well for system traders because the market is straightforward and electronic. I mean a...

It has hotkeys but they seem to be for functions other than entering orders. You can pull all working orders with them however. It takes one click to enter an order, limit or market.

Let me put it this way, any idea that I can think of testing, can be tested(so far in my experience). However, just because its called easylanguage doesn't mean everything is "easy". Its a lot more powerful than first impressions. ------ lets say you apply your strategy to a 5min chart and...

I bought the NQ emini data since its inception from tickdata.com and it lets me have one continious contract which is nice.

You cannot use Q_Bid and Q_Ask to look at historical bid and ask records. you need to write or buy a DLL that lets you do what your talking about. Market orders are only next bar. Realize that you can have multiple data compressions, for example your condition can become true on a 5min chart...

I've found that developing your own trading system(s) and simply executing them during the day will "almost" remove any psychological aspects of trading and makes all the books I've read such as books by Mark Douglas, somewhat irrelevant. Most days now, I'm not doing any market analysis during...

Tahoe: I'm also working on a NQ system and I'll tell you I've already spent thousands of hours with Tradestation just in the last two months, so I realize that there is no simple answer, especially when trading one of the most volatile contracts in the world. A simple idea: You may want to...

I have to disagree with using a fixed profit target, like a 2 point limit order to exit. I would much rather enter a stop order when appropriate then inch it up/down only in the direction of the profit. I'm now trading Eminis and I will only exit with stop orders, never limit. Let the market...

Currently, 90% of my entries are fading the most common S/R levels intraday. I'm working on trading intraday breakouts but with markets not trending the majority of the time, Fading seems the best way for me to trade intraday......

I'm no longer with IB and I'm know using J-trader with GNI. After using both platforms I personally feel that JTrader is far superior. This is just my preference. I like the interface a lot better.

There is some sort of bug with TS2000 regarding eSignal(which just recently is including futures volume) that makes esignal unusable for futures. TS2000 will show volume but the problem is it slows your CPU to a crawl. this is only for futures volume and TS2000 is not supported anymore by the...

Neo, As I'm learning I just found out that you can use Global Variables through a 3rd party .dll

I've been using Tradestation2000i for the last three weeks and I have to say that it is the best software I've ever used, hands down. You can backtest based on tick data even if your chart is 30min bars. But, you have to use orders for the next bar to trade realtime data(so says the manual...

Yes it works. I just did it to test. 2000i version.

Dan, what version do you have? I now use Tradestation2000i and if you right click on the symbol in Globalserver, and go to Import Data, I can import the following formats: Aiq, ASCII, Computrac, CSI, Bridge, Metastock, Dial Data, Tick Data... plus .omz