Search results

Work at something and study trading on the side. I'm in year 7 of doing that and looking at some kick ass systems for retirement. Totally worth all the pain and losses and time spent, totally.:)

Here is a link to a simulator where you plug in your win:loss ratio and percent of winners and it shows some equity curve lines. Notice that if you put in 1:1 and 50% winners and plot a lot of lines that some accounts may have made money and some may have lost money with exactly the same...

NASDAQ composite broke the 200 week EMA this week, the 200 week SMA is at 1760 or so. It could run down below 1760 and retest the lows of last year in the process.

That matches my experience exactly. I was thinking of resurrecting the TS2000 but thought better of it when I recalled all the annoyances, if their new software can do well I will probably have one eventually.

Real Estate is too cool. I live in some. It's way better than before I had real estate.

TS software is good, the brokerage is something I don't want to use right now. TS has a record of messing with the current custormers and actively recruiting new ones. Complaining is not likely to change anything but you should write a review here on ET.

I don't care too much about this issue but what people have to realize is that they have been fed one side of the argument, from childhood on. There has not been much coming from the creationist side except through the Church venue because Christianity has been outlawed in the public venue, that...

Watching a trade go the wrong way while frozen is the worst!! I lost 2 weeks pay in a few minutes doing that once. It was a good lesson. I remember it way too well even years later. Most people talk about collaring a trade with a profit target and a stop loss right as they enter. Maybe a...

I have worked on cars with some cheap tools, and with some superb ones. Guess what? The work goes better with the superb tools. Go figure. Max

Too cool. I'm going to join up with a shop like yours if I can autotrade my way out of the daytime job. I enjoy watching the trades go off and watching the time and sales, much of the time I can tell when the tide is turning. I want to get some training and just do that all day for awhile, too...

I am thinking that Comstock is not a real good choice, QCharts gets data from them and it is problemattical, not sure if Comstock is the problem but they could be. I have found that all (inexpensive) data feeds are a trial and error thing, you just have to try them. They vary so much, some...

The woman at work said "am I allowed to have young good looking guys in this?" the first time I worked with her. Pretty funny. Do you have some technical analysis or anything to guide your trading? One master of that stuff is Linda Raschke, you might get some training DVD's or whatever from...

I'm not much of a trader really. I've been developing systems for years however, the daytime job is a pretty good gig, no big hurry to start trading. I had to put on some trades yesterday to answer a question about what the brokerage would do in different situations. I hit the buy button instead...

Sierra Charts has an excel integrated with the charts. If you are going to use Excel that might be the way to go. If super speed is not important you should be able to get the job done with Tradestation and Tradebolt. Tradebolt requires no programming, it reads a text file outputted by...

... and all traded in the same account so nobody could EVER figure out your strategies!!

Glad to help. Glad you are making it as well. Max

Regarding beating yourself up for anything at all, I learned something while shooting baskets for exercise over a period of a few years. I learned to, after every shot, think about what I did right. It helped a lot, that way you never think much about what you did wrong and you are always...

I have TS8, had TS2k before it. I'm in the test stage of strategies automated with IB via Dynaorder. Hoping to get things ironed out this week and start trading next. Max

I went to the site and can't find the page for downloading it. I found a button that says "Download" but it takes me to a forum. I am interested in knowing what all the features are. From the forum I gathered that it is a DLL. You have to integrate it into your strategies, which in my experience...

It is not hard at all to dispute the payment with the credit card company. You never know if you are going to win or even whether the credit card issuer will do anything but nonetheless, just a letter with a few details to the credit card company is a good place to start. I am a little guy...