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I went back through my trade history on that massive loser yesterday. It happens once in a while and it is always due to news. Filtering out the news really helps the trade make money. I must let this victimization pass and move onwards toward glory, so that I may purchase more refreshing...

-$236 I made it a point to check for broker upgrades this morning, but must have missed one. I'm such an idiot. Anyway, this thing ran against me big time, around 4%. I think the writing was on the wall though when its hedge stopped working. I should've cut it right there and then, but I...

-$236 I smashed in the face by a broker upgrade. All the stocks that are near/around earnings are killing system performance, so I need to actively go out of my way to start filtering for earnings +/- 2 days and also avoid any day on which there is an upgrade.

I'm using the Yahoo calendar right now. It's ok, just wish I had a local copy, maybe even integrated into outlook on top of just scripts somehow.

Anyone out there have any links to any decent scripts to check earnings calendars prior to the open and list any companies with earnings on a given day? I just want to have a list of stocks run against the calendar script every morning and just be alerted as to whether my stocks are on that...

Awwww yeah. When I got that shirt on, with some shoes, and some gatorade, the honeys come up to me on the streets and they are all like, "Wassup Garch? You, uh, think you can share a lil time wit me wit yo fly ass self?" And I'm like, "B* please. I can't be all up in here making $20 so I can...

Thank you. I went out of my way to design my strategy so that the equity curve looks very smooth. If there are any crazy jaggies in out of sample tests, I toss the strategy aside and look for other candidates. I designed around my psychology. For a while there, I was doing discretionary...

Oh f***, you know what I did wrong today? I didn't drink any gatorade or vitamin water. Failure was bound to happen.

+$21.23 I had a really, really bad day. The morning was off to a bad start. First thing, I had an erroneous tick that took me into the red where, for whatever reason, the system executed and closed a trade early. I figured, ok, cost me $10. Then another trade took me well into the...

+$21.23 My network went down today. I shat a brick. So glad I am in the green.

oh thank GOD my hedge fired before the network went down. i love everyone.

Certain sites aren't working for me; I Im'd a few people, they also were having market data problems using completely different vendors. Is there some kind of massive failure going on in some backbone out there?

The other thing I do is spray paint my under-arms like they do in the Fresh Prince, because I believe it will get me into housing in Bel Air.

Yeah, but I drink vitamin water and gatorade so I am pretty much guaranteed to win.

+$170.39 Clean execution today, all signals worked. Wrote down a few ideas to filter losers more effectively, but still need a decent reporting interface. I think I'm going to go outside and take a long walk, because I was hunched over the computer all weekend working to fix my software...

+$170.39 Was a very clean day, all software worked, my head was in the game, and no discretionary trades/fix-ups. However, I still will keep the size to 100-share blocks until I'm comfortable with the consistency. Nice to have some buffer for the loser days.

I program and trade, and the only real constraint is that I have to be intelligent about when to allocate time to programming. That's the reason I even look into these third party platforms, because I could never do it all myself. If I program too much => not enough revenue, run out of $ If...

Rina's portfolio maestro? Is that really worth $5000? Yes, I intend to move out of these platforms as well, but there's just no way one guy can write all the features that TS has without some substantial effort. I've just decided to go piece by piece, but tradestation can count on me as a...

Wait, can I trade through Chimera as just trash off the street if I bring my own money?

Yeah, no luck. I've given up on Multicharts. Looks like I'm going to just roll my own primitive portfolio level tester and stick with TS, until I roll my own replacement for TS.