before you do anything, create boundaries for yourself in the environment and stay within them. Everyone of my many huge mistakes and losses has...
Test this. here is my idea for tradestation, data1 SPX weekly, data2 VIX weekly If high of data2 > 40 then buy; If low of data2 < 25 then...
Girlpower, I use TS2000i and like it. I use quote.com data fed in through Metaserver. And use Qloader to download data in XPO format from...
Unfortunately these days have been few and far between. I wouldn't count on this working very much. Doubtful.
In case anyone is interested, I just updated the program to now work with the latest TWS versions. You need to download again for it work. No...
When what normally would act as resistance/support is easily broken and is now acting as the inverse.
Its very hard to take all the trades. But that is what you have to do. Take Oddball for example, I've customized the basic oddball system with...
What are you trying to trade? what market?
Concerning NQ, I have to say that I don't like it anymore. I only trade two markets now, ES and ZB. And the Bonds is a fully mechanical TS...
Very light volume in the market lately and I guess a lot less daytraders as well, hence the lack of responses. There you go, I just bumped you...
Good observation. The VIX currently should at least keep us on our toes, for a possible up swing soon. Maybe after more pain, but at least it's...
It is very boring late at night. It can make moves though, but for the most part very little volume. Not worth it in my opinion.
What type of problems are you having with Dynaorder and executions?
Hey LarryB, try Dynaorder for TS and Esignal as well. I'm currently working on getting the TS DLL going....
You are right, every Sunday night the futures are red, of course, except on those Sunday nights when they aren't.
Are you trading yet AphexTwin?
If you don't know this, then I beg you not to attempt to trade off a system you create.
A break of the 20 day moving average in T-Notes looks like it is needed before money will move into equities.
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I would say a minimum of 5 to 10 points for initial stop. IMHO, then you can adjust it accordingly as the trade moves in your favor.
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