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Thx Travis. This is a good old one. Thx for the advice

Hi! Anybody got some good reference on this subject? Thanks in advace, Horace

Of course not, but writing in plain english is not a trading platform. :) I haven't checked the link you posted, and maybe that is the simplest, but I know A LOT of trading platforms and PRT is not by any means the more complex to code. Actually, imho, it is not complex at all in comparison to...

When you backtest you analyze hundreds or even thousands of historical trades. Your results won't be affected by the last trade you are missing from yesterday. And if you cant live without it, just run the backtest again tomorrow.

Hi Revo, Course, I told you. As I explained before, it's not a problem with the platform. Markets simply work like that, you can't possibly know the bar close untill the next bar has opened. Except, of course, you code in the market closing hour. The problem is this is not a very "clean"...

No ther isn't because the openning price is a result from the openning auction and can't be predicted. You can try following the price using limit orders. Open+3 ticks or Open-3 ticks. You will most probably lose some trades, but in the long term I can guess you will notice no difference.

Sure Revolutionary. If you trade scalping and more than twice a day you NEED to have limit orders. Try changing your entry / exit styles. Else you'll be unable to make a good idea profitable imho. Thank for your compliments, my english blog is a newborn, lets give it a chance... :-)

Slippage is hugely dependant on factors you are not talking about here (broker's connections to the exchange for example). If you trade market orders all the time, you need to be on the safe side. Try considering at least commissions x 3. That is a rule of thumb I use that frequently works well...

Hi Bertoldo, I would recommend you program and backtest your strategy before paying or even trading it. Most of the time theoretical results are much better than real world when you take into account real trading costs (commisions, slippages, etc). If you can, program your strategy in xls to...

Hi, I completely disagree. PRT is one of the easiest platforms to program that one can find out there.

Hi Revolutonary, The problem is it is impossible to do what you want to do. PRT (or any other sw btw) evaluates all conditions after the bar has closed. There is no other way of approaching this programming as far as I know. Hence you need to take than into account for your programming and...

You need to contact them. Aparently on the last update they changed the data provider an f*cked up a lot of strategies using dates and similar strategies. Anyway, you can try this that will work better :-) : IF (dClose(0)>dOpen(0)) Then BUY 1 SHARES AT market ENDIF if longonmarket then...

Renting a server is almost as useless as trading from home only a little bit more dangerous in some aspects. Even then it is a bit more reliable on the technical side and should be considered before a home architecture. Definetively not the best way to go, but still better than a soho install. H