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I think I see your point: no mathematical tool can promise to always predict the complex psychology of a market or even individual stock under all economic conditiions. But, that said, is there any reason to believe it cannot predict the psychology 55% of the time? or maybe 65%? Isn't that...

I may be missing the point, but I remember an Active Trader or Stocks and Commodities article a few months ago that showed the probabilites of an up day after one, two or three down days in the market. And the results definitely seemed very non-random. Doesn't this show some kind of simple...

Thanks. I found something similar thru backtesting but didn't believe my results because I couldn't understand the market mechanics. I was afraid I had just taken a Random Walk...

I use support/resistance ideas regularly in my trading with individual stocks. But does trading using support/resistance make sense with an ETF where the “stock” is based on an index of dozens of underlying stocks? Mathematically this makes no sense to me. Why would dozens of stocks going...

********************************* Are the free versions something that would have to be coded with a text editor or does Microsoft's freebie come with the Visual Studio IDE? ********************************* I believe it just comes with a rudimentary SDK kit, but exactly what that means I'm...

I always dive back in. I love trading too much to do anything but. Plus, I don't actually believe in the random walk, but the mkt comes close enough to give you a heck of a lot of grief!

It's about a $100 one time and if you're just interested in daily data there's no monthly charge - they have a free download utility that pulls off Yahoo.

amibroker is very reasonable and very powerful. i use it virtually every day for daily data.

Microsoft is now giving away VB.Net and C#.Net right now. You can buy Standard Edition C# on Egghead's for $90! (I don't think you'll get Source Safe or Crystal Reports.) My opinion is for $90 that it is well worth the money with all the built in Visual Studio functionality that you'll get...

That might work because it seems oftentimes that the only thing you can count on the market to do is the opposite of whatever it has done in the past. Not only does "past performance not guarantee future results" but it virtually guarantees the Opposite.

See page 2 of the previous msg.

Also on the thread I started http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7607&perpage=6&pagenumber=1 there were a few other technical solutions offered including some software called HTTPORT. Good luck

Sounds like ctrader might have the answer for you. But here's one other thought: I had the identical situation at my work and was just about to switch my account to Brown or Ameritrade when I heard that some people were not on the proxy. I found that they were "Cisco". Turns out the proxy...

Just did a little research and I see what you mean: today there were only 14 issues with over 100 kshares. Hmmm...

You may have just talked me out of it. I'm in the desert southwest of the U.S. and the exchanges close at 2:00 for me! I wanted to have the option of doing a little swing-type trading into the evening since Australia is open about 3pm to 10pm for me. But I didn't realize the stocks are so...

Two questions: 1. Who (retail) allows Stateside traders to trade individual Australian equities? (I'm not talking about ADR's, ETF's, etc.) 2. Who (retail) allows Stateside traders to trade individual Brazilian equities? Any recommendations would be much appreciated.

Do you shy away from CEFs? If so, is that because of the discount/premium issue? Also: you can't short CEF's on a downtick, right?

Quick side question if you don't mind: what do you think of the new BLDRS ETFs. They had virtually no volume on their opening day yesterday and I'm wondering if that's typical for a new ETF starting out or if there is something less than desirable with these new issues? Or is it just the fact...

True buy and hold takes nerves of steel way beyond that of even a swing trader. We can all remember in our pre-TA days buying something and watching slowly tank and then go through a long accumulation period. It's virtually impossible for someone to watch a stock drop 50% over the course of...

************************************ VBA is a toy. ************************************ MS Access and Excel are small-scale "toys", but VBA itself is quite powerful for individual use. So unless you're trolling for thousands of arbitrage opportunities or doing massive computational...