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That's me! I am looking forward to my new adventures in stupid robot trading.

Thanks for the response. I can understand that people are sick of answering questions like these but I did have a relatively specific question and these products (and the resources supporting them) do change so I wanted to check for current opinion. My own evaluation thus far is that...

Does anybody know how eSignal's EFS compares with TradeStation's EasyLanguage? More specifically, I'm curious about how eSignal with Dynaorder and IB compares with Tradestation for automated trading systems. Thanks for any comments

Which index options are you trading (or would you recommend trading)? The SPX and OEX options are so large that they don't offer much flexibility and they have significant spreads. The QQQ options have great volume but with the QQQ at such low levels there doesn't seem to be as much bang for...

bundlemaker, let me begin by saying that i have no doubt that hypnosis and nlp work for some people. this doesn't mean, however, that they work in the ways or for the reasons that the proponents of these techniques claim. take a look at the critique at http://skepdic.com/neurolin.html, for...

I should probably note that eSignal tick bars are limited to the beta release, currently only allow a single day of data, and does not allow drawing tools. There are, of course, other platforms that offer this functionality.

Does anyone trade using tick bars (i.e., candlestick charts based on ticks, e.g., 150 ticks to a bar, rather than minutes)? eSignal recently added this functionality to their Advanced Charts and I'm not really clear on how to make the best use of them. It seems like something that should be...

There's a lot of good feedback on WealthLab. Do you need the developers version to do intraday analysis? There's a WealthLab group on Yahoo (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wealth-Lab/messages) that seems to have some activity. One of the advantages of WealthLab, like TradeStation (although...

My wife had a work related crisis that she needed my help with so I ended up missing it. Did you see the thread "What's the catch?" (http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8135&perpage=6&pagenumber=1)? It had some interesting comments on system development. I am very slowly...

oh, some of these guys have worthwhile things to say. if you're not familiar with options there are some good introductory talks and if you're interested in generating some investment ideas then some of the newsletter people (like mccamant) might be worth checking out. personally, i'm going for...

The San Francisco Money Show is scheduled for this weekend (http://www.moneyshow.com/sanfranciscomoneyshow/attendee/index.shtml). I doubt that you'll learn anything there but it's free and I'm a sucker for free highlighters and water bottles. Besides, it's at the Marriott so you could also pop...

The summer of 2001 was miserable for both cable modem service and QCharts. The reliability of both have significantly improved (although I have since moved to eSignal). I had the choice of either cable or DSL at my current location and I opted for cable despite the theoretical benefits of DSL...

Broadband Internet service is widely available, even in Richmond. I would be a very unhappy trader without it. Nevertheless, if you're wedded to your 56K modem for some reason I can assure you that a good charting service is still usable. On the other hand, if your gut is working for you ...

OK, let's see if anyone will share a little more detail. I'm trading out of scenic Richmond (don't laugh, I have a beautiful bay view from my deck and we haven't had a toxic cloud in weeks). I've been trading over 2 years. I trade the QQQ using IB and eSignal. Mark

yeah, i got that far but i was hoping to be able to change the default size of the trailing stop.

Is there a way to change the default size of the trailing stop? $1.00 is way too big.

i doubt that there's enough of a critical mass in the bay area to sustain something like dtoc - a group big enough to attract speakers. it's easy enough to set up a group on yahoo but would it be worth the effort? i can see the advantage of a local group (e.g., for book loans) but there seems...

also in richmond

"The only real competition is from ATI" This isn't very realistic. The threat from the integrated chipsets offered by Intel probably isn't that large but the investment community seems to be taking it very seriously. Isn't that enough? This isn't a debate about the merits of chip set or a...

In regards to Vulture's comment, I believe the book he was referring to was "The Odds" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0306811561/ref=cm_mp_gl_wl/104-8738604-3811147), a fun read.