jlm890: Fantastic answer, John! I realize some of the questions may not be specific enough to get a clear answer, but I left them that way to...
Yes, indeed--perl definitely keeps my part of the universe together! My family and I would be starving and broke right now if it weren't for my...
Thanks, damir, for the very detailed (and very surprising) response! I am a perl programmer by day and never seriously considered using it for...
hylt's poll on most powerful trading/backtesting software got me thinking: we've got a lot of built-from-scratch software platforms around...
riskarb: On behalf of all the ETers you've helped with your thousand+ posts, thanks for all the knowledge that you have so graciously imparted...
Count me as one vote for someday offering historical back-fills through the IB TWS API (and also lifting the symbol limit) for a modest increase...
How true! I recently lost 15% of my account in two days but was totally unfazed by the loss. Why? Because through dedicated backtesting and...
If you've replaced the chip, fan and heatsink with a brand new one and still have the problem, then you probably are having trouble with some...
Jim: By the time you are ready to actually trade for a living, you will have already answered your question for yourself. What I mean by that...
I agree with hanseng1--Tradestation's EasyLanguage is very easy to get started in. Wealth-Lab is more for programmer-traders. If you can program...
If you're new to programming, you'll find C++ to be extremely daunting. Visual Basic is easier, though still very tough. You should try your...
Dude, as a coder, you've got to check out QuantStudio (www.smartquant.com). I wish I had started on that platform--I'd be sitting pretty right...
It's pretty much the same conflict as that between every individual's need for privacy and his/her need to socialize. Somewhere in the middle of...
More data to test on is generally better than less, so the longer time frame would offer a more significant result. However, this is not to say...
IBM wins hands-down in my book. I buy a laptop every other year (mainly as a write-off, but also to stay current). Of all the brands I've tried...
Easyrider's right. The probabilities/odds/expectations on casino games that are usually bandied about are the theoretical numbers, which assume a...
My main trading/backtesting/optimization platform is a 1.6GHz Pentium M in a teeny tiny little IBM X31 (under 4lbs!!). And the new...
Cutten's second method worked for me, though I didn't go FIVE times normal, just double-size. Using profit and loss targets and sitting on my...
The same freakin' thing with Build 819 happened to me, though it took me a while to figure it all out because I've been using SOCKScap to traverse...
LOTS. Before I switched to Amibroker and then to Wealth-Lab, I used stockcharts.com every day to do all of my picks. I wrote some freakin' long...
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