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i've used both. I just found quote.com unreliable. eSignal on the other hand is rock solid. The new eSignal 7 has much better charts than before and are at least as good as QCharts. I don't know any reason why you would choose Quote.com over eSignal.

you can always become an analyst. If you can remember a few stock symbols, I'm sure you can remember to say "BUY" whenever your investment banker hands you a new stock to "analyze".

The only other explanation could be that three different people at the same location (behind a firewall and NAT) posted. Many corporations only have one public IP address.

No, that specific case to find an equivalent lag was for the linear function given at the top of the post, ie price(1) = 1, price(2) = 2. In general the ema is given by the formula with the a in it.

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That wouldn't be a hint of sacrasm, would it ? Anyway, I'll certainly post the explanation as I promised last night. First let's look at a SMA (simple moving average). Let's take a simple example where the prices are: 1 at bar 1, 2 at bar 2, etc. Let's calculate a 5 bar SMA. We add the 5...

This is what I recall. My family is constantly on my case to trade/invest their funds so I went down this path a while ago. If my recollection serves me right, here is what I found: 1. "investment club" accounts are much like a typical retail account and is taxed the same 2. the "club" can...

I'll post the details tomorrow. It's a little calculation. "lag" is the number of bars that the moving average is "behind" the actual time series.

it's important to understand the the EMA and SMA with percent=2/(N+1) are NOT identical. The equation simply indicates for which "percent" the exponential MA has the same lag as a simple MA with period N.

By far the simplest method I know of is to set up an "investment club" account. This allows a group of people to pool their funds. You can then set it up so that only you have trading autorization. No issues with LLC/ C-corps or the IRS. I know that Schwab offers such accounts .. i'm sure others...

In reply to some of the early posts: The only real reason to develop you own trading software is to eliminate arbitrary limitations set by software vendors such as Equis and TradeStation. These days there is little money to be made being a software vendor ... the real money is being made with...

I agree completely with your comments: I have certain types of trades that I can execute profitably but cannot code with the same degree of consistiency. In general, however, I still believe that if you cannot code it, it's unlikely that you can trade it profitably.

the most important aspect of TradeStation (Metastock, Wealth-lab etc) is that they allow you to eliminate strategies that don't work. If you cannot describe your strategy precisely enough that you can code it profitably, chance are that you cannot execute it under fire (ie with money) either.

as long as you understand that Level II mostly is a poker game, it might be useful to you. The market makers are excellent at hiding their true intentions and will often indicate they exact opposite interest of what they really need to get done. Remember, that most MM makes their money from...

I've personally found consulting work through www.dice.com, so that's another avenue. You should ask lots of questions if you are looking for Java developers. In particular if it's trading related work. PM me if you like more specific advice (don't want to "advertise" here)

Yes, I have 4 PC's on a single cable modem connection. The reason I like multiple PCs is that I run charting on one PC, order entry on a 2nd etc. That way, if something crashes, I immediately have a backup. For most of the software I've seen a standard 2GHz PC with 512MB memory would be more...

Win2000 and XP supports multiple processors, while 98/95 and ME doesn't. linux supports multiple processors as well. So if you're running multiple apps you will see some speed improvement in a dual processor system. Generally, the best you can expect is somewhere between 1.3 to 1.8 over one...

I would use the sockets API. why add any extra layers of translation? Sockets are universally available across operating systems and programming languages - ActiveX is microsoft only.

it's taken me much longer than I like to admit to get my automated systems to a place where they actually work consistently. E.g one of my once better systems suddenly began deteriorating at the begining of the year and has lost money since. Just have to watch them in action and adapt.

metastock can also do this. Use the DataManager to define which pairs you're interested in. Alternatively, you can create indicators that reference your pair securities and look at them that way.