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I don't think anyone from Quote.com regularly reads the Yahoo group. Email them directly. As I recall, the most recent version of QCharts has a built-in mechanism for reporting bad data. (I dropped my subscription last month so I can't fire up QCharts to check this out.)

As a general rule: - Stocks and stock indices are best traded short-term, countertrend. - Commodities are best traded long-term, trend-following. Therefore, I wouldn't expect the DJIA to test well with the Turtle system.

Ditto. When I set up an S-corp years ago for doing some electronics design contracting, I was told by my attorney that under NY state law the company could not use the word "Engineering" in its title unless one of the principals was a licensed PE (Professional Engineer). In my particular...

I went with the "write my own system" approach to automate my trading execution. In fact I wrote all my backtesting programs as well, over the last three years. In retrospect I think the latter was rather foolish on my part, although it led me to explore some ideas that probably wouldn't have...

Shhh...

Agreed. You put it much more concisely than I could have managed. IB simply exposed the API that they had originally developed to drive their TWS; it was not designed from scratch as an API for 3rd party programmers.

People are idiots. This is one of the things you must always remember if you wish to succeed in life. Disclaimer: I can get away with saying that, because I'm a people too.

You might also want to check out QuantStudio (http://www.smartquant.com/) which supports trading via IB.

Thanks for clearing that up. BTW, my experience is that while Dell's "Home/Home Office" tech support is poor, their "Small Business" support is quite good.

1. Back when I was a practicing electrical engineer, the rule of thumb was that signals on a printed circuit board travel about 1/3 the speed of light. 2. You can calculate the speed at which signals propagate in a long-distance fiber-optic link if you know the index of refraction of the...

Logarithms.

I disagree with this piece of conventional wisdom. As a counter-example, my primary trading system tends to take profits a bit too early and lets losers run a bit too long. Its biggest losers tend to be about four times as large as its biggest winners. However, it wins or breaks even on about...

I'm a bit confused here. You're talking about a video splitter, which is a device that allows you to drive several monitors with the same feed, like when you walk into an electronics store and see a wall of monitors all showing the same picture. I believe what everyone else here is talking...

Huh? Globex currencies are closed 5:00-6:00pm ET, according to both the CME website and my quote provider. Anyway, Globex has different closing times for different products. Emini equity futures are closed 4:15-4:45pm ET, for example, so there is no one single period that could accomodate...

Note that many programs are not well behaved: they store user data in their home directory, rather than where they are supposed to - in the user documents folder ("C:\Documents and Settings\username" for Win2000 and XP, or "C:\My Documents" in older versions of Windows, which you shouldn't be...

Yes. They are known as calls and puts. (Which you yourself observed, in your first post of this thread.)

I haven't traded coffee for about two years, so I just pulled up the charts to see what you're talking about. I would short coffee here, covering around 65 (March contract).

I used NetFutures for two years, trading a variety of markets using the Leo (Refco) platform, and was very happy with their reliability, executions, commissions and customer service. I only closed my account because I decided to focus on automated trading and they didn't offer a platform with...

You absolutely need a policy that will cover you in the event of a catastrophic illness or accident. Going without such a policy in order to save a few bucks a month is the equivalent of selling naked options - limited upside, unlimited risk. As for "regular" health insurance, of course it's...

Actually, POP says that day traders should put their full position on at the beginning of the trade. ALS - Wouldn't you say that adding for day traders isn't always a good rule. POP - Adding correctly regardless of your time period is useful in making bigger gains in the long run. Day...