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Its private school...they tend to do things differently than public schools. In addition, never said was the US. Regardless, no need for me to explain to you any aspect of the school policies. Anyways, you should be very busy tomorrow talking to a TradeStation account rep. Don't take it...

Talk to a sales rep and tell them to click on your website link so that they know it has nothing to do with financial. If its manually flagged, someone may have gone to the wrong link and then thought in error that its linked to a financial site. P.S. My kids private schools do not allow...

I have friends using a "personal email domain" (associated with their business) with accounts at TradeStation and they register with TradeStation via their personal email domain (business email address). Just open an account with them via whatever email address they allow for and then change...

Obviously you do not want to do an activity that takes you too far away from your computer workstation if your trading day is not complete. Read a book, clean house, shop online (Xmas around the corner), exercise, watch TV if one is in your office and so on. In contrast, if you're talking...

Why do you think most can not "eliminate the emotions" if its quite so easy ? wrbtrader

There's a thread here at the forum where some members specifically discuss how being a trader is meaningul, impactful job in the grand scheme of things. Simply, financial markets does in fact impact the world...good and bad. Money can literally create schools, feed the poor, bring water to...

Whomever did your taxes should have notified you a few months before tax deadline to have your taxes done by them...email alert, phone call or slug mail alert. Also, get a wall calendar, board for the wall, multiple alerts in your cell phone calendar to notify you a month prior and then again 1...

It's not my analysis as if I looked at raw data and then computed my own analysis or research. Its statistical work by those that have access to the data and they then reported their rates to whom ever...just to be clear. Different groups in the top lists depending upon the study. Simply, the...

I knew a dental student in college in the U.S., dentist in France and dentist here in Québec. They all say its true. As for the pharmacist...perfection on the medication requirement maybe ? Most likely similar like pressure as a Doctors. For example, I was once given the wrong medication and...

Better studies (old and recent) involving the relationship of suicide rates in connection to job stress. Higher the income with stress...higher the suicide rates. If you only look at age & income levels...low income between 20 - 35 years of age have the highest suicide rates. In contrast, if...

If the simulator results of a profitable trade method occurred with emotions too or with discretionary variables to achieve those results... Then if you automate the profitable trade method, you'll be missing a critical variable that made the trade method profitable...the emotions that impacted...

Then do not call bottoms or tops. wrbtrader

Don't know any specific details of your trading day nor do I know the home environment you're trading within... Yet, it does impact the mind of a discretionary trader. Simulator trading can play tricks on the mind when you're switching from simulator to live trading in the same trading day. In...

It wil change every month or every week. Thus, even if you're subscribing to all the markets in the world (costs exceeding > $500 per month)...you couldn't possibly learn each & every market in the world to be able to successfully trade one whenever it stops being the "best for scalping" and...

I prefer to just stay with the historical data about the market performance in October just before the mid-term elections including the first week performance of November...historical data going all the way back to 1940's. Yeah, I'm sure there were other important issues as you noted but its...

I think too many traders underestimated the impact of the markets by all of the politics (e.g. mid-term elections) that was being hyped in October and then peaking the first week of November. It is a market tendency in which someone can see in the historical data of prior mid term elections...

Ok...you developed a coded strategy. What software is it developed with ? wrbtrader

Regardless to our differences... My initial reply about backtesting and codes was due to your placement of your thread in the "Strategy Development" section. Topics include NinjaScript, ThinkScript, EasyLanguage, and Excel scripting, as well as backtesting and optimization, etc. wrbtrader

You only need to know the probability of success. Lets pretend pattern you're using has a 78% success rate in a particular type of market condition called condition A. Yet, it only has a 42% success rate in another type of market condition called condition B. The exact same pattern but in...

You don't need a guarantee of future profits... Instead, you need to know the probability (positive expectancy) of your trade method so that you can determine if you should take that trade when your trade signal (custom Japanese Candlestick pattern) appears. Backtesting is just part of the...