Recent content by goonior1

try www.freestockcharts.com

I use a couple of different stops: 1) CATASTROPHIC: My initial stop which is 1.5-2ATR away from my entry point. This should protect me against market noise and initial wiggles. I use this to size my position. This stop will morph in to one of the following types as the trade develops. 2) TIME...

Good advice to get a job and learn to trade on the side...many markets are virtually 24 hours (and fairly active for say 12-16 of those...London & US sessions) and it's so much easier to trade when you have a stable income backing you up rather than clinging to every dollar you have. If you...

I prefer tick charts myself, since I like to show after hours data as well and if you use time bars, it stretches things out too much. I also use either candlesticks and sometimes Heiken-Ashi as well since they help me identify a trend. As far as setups and systems, if you've been trading...

One suggestion is that if you are trading during the US hours and want to learn in real time, you can use stocks as a proxy for the future while you are working the kinks out. I am also learning to trade futures (ES, TF, CL), but the point sizes can be daunting. However, you have to go live some...

The main disadvantage that I see is the wide bid-ask spread...even on the most liquid issues, you will probably eat $0.03-$0.05. Options are great for swing trades, but I find them difficult to use on an intraday basis. As for brokers, unless you are trading a large number of contracts, places...

I have found this little pocket reference to be invaluable as I was learning C#. http://www.amazon.com/Language-Pocket-Reference-Peter-Drayton/dp/059600429X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259794249&sr=1-5 This is strictly the C# language (no Windows stuff), but it's amazingly handy. Also...

Good call, I totally forgot about that one...We've used MySQL at work and it's worked pretty well. That's something I'll look in to. Is it worth using the database for your tick data (not sure how performance/space issues compare to simply storing it as text), or do you just use it for other...

Not sure if this is the right forum, but for you guys who code your own platform, did you implement a database for your historical stuff (quotedata, trades, executions, etc, etc) or just store things off as a textfile, .csv, etc? What are the tradeoffs/advantages of having the database? And, if...

I used to do a ton of 'c' coding and have done some c++ in the past as well. For my home use, c# has served me quite well: it's a nice combo of the simplicity of Visual Basic and the object-oriented nature of C++. I'd go with c# versus VB, but I was always more comfortable with C, so that's just...

Although some people seem to love it, and some hate it, I think NinjaTrader would provide what you want. I can't recall all the brokerages that support it (IB+a bunch of others), but I'd imagine one of them might fit the bill. You'd have to convert your EasyLanguage code to their Ninjascript...