Recent content by infobull

[[On a real-time non-tick/interval chart, are just the bid prices plotted by the GTIS datafeed?]] It's the bid quotes rather than the bid prices which are plotted. If you have eSignal's time and sales or market depth, you will see what I mean immediately. If you ahve, say, a 1 min or 5 min...

I am doing some research using eSignal's GTIS FX datafeed. However, it only provides bid quotes from participating market makers, the data sometimes is way out from the trades going through as some MMs have 10pip spreads on the euro and they can do an update only once every 30-60 minutes. I...

I have been thinking of buying a quad card to link up 4 monitors, but I have suffered from performance problems doing this in the past. My latest thinking is to link up only 2 monitors, but one of which will be a large plasma screen so that I can have almost 4 screens' worth of charts on it. I...

I had Norton Internet Security before but it was somehow corrupted as it wasn't doing the LiveUpdate properly. Although the Live Update message kept on saying the update was completed, I noticed some of the catalog(?) files weren't available for updating. I therefore installed McAfee Internet...

I have had a chance to try out the Fipertec software briefly on back data and I think the optimisation module is quite powerful. The package, while features packed, is not too difficult to use. Has anyone else used it? I would be grateful for any opinions. Thanks.

In the current issue of Traders magazine. There's an article on Fipertec and an advert for TradeSignal. Has anyone had any experience with either? It seems Fipertec is a very user-friendly back-testing/rules based engine that one can bolt on to IB for auto trading. Has anyone tried it...

I attended a seminar hosted by David Anderson(Crocodile) sometime ago and he gave an excellent introduction on computer program trading used by the big institutions. I would be most grateful if someone could point me to the right bulletion board discussion threads or external sources on the...

The Visual Trader look is very good but the height of the bar is the price ans I don't think they provide volume info. What I have in mind is: x = time y = price z = volume BTW, eSignal only allows its own data feed, and can TradeStation/Metastock/others accept other vendors' data? Thanks in...

Forgive me if this is already readily available as a standard feature on any of the charting packages, and please don't laugh if you think it's a silly question. I am wondering if eSignal/TradeStation/metastock or the others can draw a 3D chart based on price and time, but with the volume as a...

I am thinking of getting some tick data for research and I have been thinking of using eSignal as the charting package. However, I understand one cannot import data into eSignal and it only holds tick data for up to 30 days and you cannot accumulate the data through regular downloads. Is this...

Thanks for all the suggestions to date. I have now tried using just the old RAM(512Mb), just the new RAM(1Gb) and they don't seem to make much difference, ie still gets 100% CPU usage most of the time. Therefore I don't think it's the new RAM which is causing the problem. What made some...

"Another problem is, when the ADSL failed, the phone line service also failed, e.g. I did not get phone signal at all." My phone line still worked when the ADSL connection failed, so your problem could be something else. I believe the Tiscali ADSL modem is similar to the BT one(shaped like a...

As my problems only started to happen after the new RAM and the extra 2 monitors, I disenabled the 2 new monitors today and the speed seemed to pick up quite a lot. I then enabled the 3rd monitor and it seemed ok for most of the time as well until the very end when it locked up again. I...

clylbw wrote: "An error message popped up, saying the programme I was trying install did not pass the MS XP logo test" "the connection is automatically cut off every 2 to 3 minutes. " Exactly the same problem happened to me a couple of times in the past 12 months. I have the green BT USB...