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Zarrar, Thank you for the question, I'll try my best to answer it. There are 27 major indices available to the market participant. All have options contracts available on the underlying. These area's are my starting point for a visual inspection of where the "smart money" is rotating into...

I would have to agree there is no one single best indicator for sure fire movement of a security. However, you can begin by stacking the odds in your favor. Breakouts from consolidation's and pullbacks are my two favorite's. I am a fan of historic volatility and use it extensively to locate...

Try training@blackwoodtrading.com or info@blackwoodtrading.com -Hoyler

Ken, Well done, we all live and learn, kudoes to you for owning your mistakes. -Hoyler

Tradestation will allow you to write nearly anything that you can imagine using easy language. The idea you presented sounds easy enough to program. I personally have used Omega product's for years, Superchart's 2.4 yeah I am ancient <g> .ELA is the primary reason why, anything you want coded...

There is a float analysis indicator available from http://www.floatanalysis.com and http://www.janarps.com. The idea behind float analysis is to measure the ongoing turnover in daily volume from a point in the past to the present. In theory complete turn over marks new hands in the security...

3 minute, 1 minute and 25 tick charts. The time frame you utilize should determined by the type of broker access you employ. -Hoyler

I hold the opposite point of view concerning using technical analysis intraday. Intelligent use of T/A allows one to put the "odds" as they were, in your favor. I have used that same few indicators for years now, and have went as far as to calculate some of them by hand for extended periods. I...

You may want to check with Jan Arps about a conversion utility. He has written several patches that allow EOD format's to read r/t data. He is also a master of .ELA programming http://www.JANARPS.COM -Hoyler

Here is an interesting overview on the rate of growth, the players involved, # of trades per firm, volume per firm, trades per participant. You need Abobe to view this document. I cant seem to link to the document.. but here is the address http://www.blackwoodtrading.com/DirectAccess.pdf...

I experienced horrible performance Win ME not just with 2 monitors, but system resources would drop to critical levels then lock up. The problem was ME as operating system. Tradestation Pro runs 13 .exe's in the background, this is in additon to any other programs I would like to utilize. Being...

Rfoulk, Tradestation pro is the charting platform. The default values for Tick's are 1, 10 or 25 ticks per bar. Although you can specify any tick value that you wish. I have watched various securities with both a 1 minute and a 25 tick chart as the default. It is apparent me that the tick...

Can some of you share your expertise in using tick charts, the set-up, amounts of ticks per bar etc. Today I watched CMRC open with both a 1 minute bar chart and a 25 tick bar chart. The tick chart appeared to lead the 1 minute and identify the exhaustion of the buyers on the immediate opening...

Thnxx to all for the education... more complicated than I would have hoped for... also the amount of fund's needed are prohibitive. -Hoyler

Could someone see thier way to educating me on what exactly these two strategies are, how they are used, what the pro's & con's are, and what markets they may be limited to, thnxx. -Hoyler

P... I would have done the same as you, hitting the bid... never occurred to me that the trade could have been erroneous. What if it was a take over, or dynamite news... I would like to hear more info about "broken & out trades" Didnt realize there was such a thing, let alone it could happen to...

Doesnt matter so much as long as they are placed... And depends on the type of trading you are involved in... Swing traders have a different amount of leeway than a daytrader may have... Personally, a pure dollar loss works best for me... Timing is everything in this game...Low risk entries into...

As far as your setup goes it sounds similar to mine. I would get as much RAM as you can afford. It's likely you will add to your system not take from it, more and more apps require lots of your horsepower. L2 boxes take a huge chunk of your resouces.... Tradestation Pro runs 13 exe's in the...

I am currently using a Dell Dimension 4100, 933 w/512, 2 19" M991 monitors from Dell. The monitors are great, also using a matrox G450 graphics card.... here's the rub, the g450 was purchased as an OEM from Dell, but, there's always a butt isn't there... the G450 comes only preinstalled on their...