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TS2000 with DTN satellite is probably the most bang for your buck you are ever going to see in this lifetime. I went with the new TS software a couple of years ago but it would have been cheaper to set up the satellite and I could probably have done as well. Having said that, I must say that...

I spoke with an engineering recruiter for a high tech company once about Phd vs MA. He said he would pay a premium for a PhD at the starting wage but what anybody made after that was up to the individual.

I was thinking about the same thing today. I'm going into the weekend with some code I would like to have all debugged and working by Monday morning, no way to test it.

You can do it with TS a couple of ways. One is to use macros to automate the testing, the other one is to use radarscreen. If you use radarscreen you can have results on a backtest of a large number of issues in an excel -like format and you can copy that to excel for further analysis. I am...

Avian flu first has to mutate into something that is spread human to human before it can be a big threat. If we had a case in the US right now it would not be a big deal.

Dynaorder works fine with Tradestation in my experience, probably with Esig as well. I don't like the commission payment model of tradebolt. Tradebolt may be easier to implement but I found Dynaorder to be far from difficult to use anyhow.

I have been wrestling with the idea of scaling in for a couple of weeks. Let's say I have a mean reversion system that fires off a buy when price is a certain measure away from the mean. Let's say I have 4 levels where price will trigger a buy and I double the amount I buy at each level. As the...

Fuel costs are having their impact. I can observe one blue collar community where the commute averages over 100 miles per day round trip, the local eateries are nearly vacant. Evidently people are having to cut back on discretionary spending to fund their fuel costs and probably financing fuel...

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The trading software from MyTrack has a column that shows if there is news for an issue or not. They have an API as well, it might be possible to know simply if there was news or not directly in your automation. I don't know if that is available to the API and I'm thinking that will not buy you...

Dang, TS8 is almost up with TS2k!! Now it they would offer seamless integration of realtime esignal or cqg/whatever with bid/ask history and automatic seamless failover it would be great. I don't like being single-sourced on anything. I don't think a third party developer has this for TS8...

In TS8, maybe TS2k as well, you can format each output of a strategy or indicator. Make the chart the active window then it's format -strategy.

bio fuels are ludicrous. They need petro chemicals to grow the crops they are made from and their use will tie up agricultural resources and raise the price of food. The obvious good choice is hybrid cars using gasoline and also rechargeable from the electrical grid and the electrical grid...

That is correct. I was in the "research" and "paper trade" mode for years. When I started trading small my education really got under way.

I have been like that for 56% of my life so on the average it would be half the normal rate if I was normal. What happens if a homeowner can't make all his payments? First he/she will stop paying the credit cards, when all the dust settles, worst case is a garnish in most states. What if the...

I'm still of the school that the guy with the biggest trade barriers has the worst economy and the tax burden will destroy the middle class but you never know.

Agreed largely, but there are a few situations where volume is definitive. To me price action is more about the time and sales and watching for when sales are going off at the bid or the ask. Along with the chart that can show you a lot.

It's doable. I have two systems that together comprise comfort., One requires a lot of personal attention even though the TA portion of the entry is fully automated, the other one runs all week unattended except that I have to screen the issues for each week on the weekend. Both are designed for...

Exactly. Were I a real programmer I would do like that. As it is I can code up a system and test it in Tradestation's RadarScreen in minutes. It is flexible enough, I could test 20 systems on 1000 symbols if I wanted to. I copy the results to Excel for further analysis if it is necessary. If I...

Saddam priced his oil in Euros, some think that is how he got where he is today.