Recent content by bdholmes

Historical data According to IB's website: "Historical data requests can go back one full calendar year." Does this mean: 1. IB's servers only have data going back one calendar year. So oldest data they offer today is Nov 27th 2011. or 2. Each request (subject to pacing) can be for a...

Tradestation v8.3's scanning has a 1000 symbol maximum, and although you can load a list of symbols by index or sector, it won't allow you to load for example the largest 1000 volume stocks. Data has been reasonably reliable for the 2.5 years I've used the software, although there was a two...

Yes as in screenshot above. Yes base is £.

I transferred in USD from IB which is free if it's your first withdrawal in a month. I converted using their IDEAL system first, but next time (if there is one) I'll see whether you can just withdraw in USD without converting as it may automatically convert at IDEAL rates when you withdraw...

Why use Metaserver when Hyperserver is free?

Hi, yes I subscribe to RT Globex and have EOD data too, although not sure about spliced data as I don't use it. ASCII - yes, Metastock - no. Yes. No, well not CBOT anyway as I've tried it.

Hmmm... this screenshot suggests otherwise:

Unlike my IB account, Tradestation accounts must be funded in US dollars. What is the best way to fund it? I want to obtain a good exchange rate, and be hedged against currency fluctuations. It seems IB's IDEAL has much better rates of exchange than the high street banks. Can I convert GBP...

Yes, I was misled by this on CME's website: http://www.cme.com/trading/prd/fx/rolldates3745.html into incorrectly placing a trade on September's Euro FX contract on Monday morning, when volume on the June contract was much greater. CME admitted this information is misleading on the phone and...

It's a shameless money making scam by CME. A message (order) is a line or two of text amounting to no more than a few kilobytes. Even if there are hundreds per trade, it doesn't take much bandwidth or server processing power to handle that much data. Have CME pandered to pressure from the big...

With IB you can have a universal pound stirling account and can trade instruments all over the world. With TS you have to have a US dollar account (so will incur conversion costs and are at the mercy of a fluctuating exchange rate) and can only trade US instruments. Although TS has...

Salty, do you have a UPS attached to that machine? My PC's spontaneous reboot problem was resolved by attaching one, so I suspect there was a fluctuating electricity supply or perhaps short outages. If it a computer you rely on for trading, you should use a UPS anyway. The one I use (which...

I think what you need is OCR software that can be automatically used to grab a screen print, recognise the characters and then place the text elsewhere so it can be analysed. I did some work on this back in my Deal4Free days when they often took out the stops I had placed with them even though...

Hi, I will shortly be applying for Tradestation v8. Are there any current TS customers out there willing to fill this referral form for me: https://www.tradestation.com/referafriend/ thereby saving $50 off my first bill :-) If so, please PM me and I'll give you my details, Many thanks, Brendan

I backtest around 4 years of intraday data in 2000i. I found that tick-backtesting took too long so I backtest using 1 minute bars instead. I found results to be very similar, so until I can afford one of those Cray supercomputers, this will do fine.