I have spent many years (20+) developing trading systems and running them live and backtesting. Don't waste your time like I have. I have never found any of them to be consistent. I can make money manually everytime but not with an automated system. I use MT4 which is primarily focussed on...
MT Forume
Try this.. you have to join via an adminstrator so take a day or so. Well wort the wait.
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MetaTrader_Experts_and_Indicators/
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I'll have a look at that its only a couple of lines of code need changing (used to be a programmer) s its only a couple on minutes. I'm busy with FX at the moment, lots of good free stuff. If you are interested look at Moneytec and Moneymaker system.
Steve
It's not what you want to hear but I use Supercharts and generate the data from an MSACCESS database which I load daily prices for UK and USA stocks into. Its not going to help you unless you have the same technology, Sorry :-(
Steve
PS By the way I use 2 days and look for single candles which...
Have a look at www.learntrading.co.uk. I met with John last week who lives locally and we had a good chat. Haven't been on his course but he seems a nice honest guy to me. The VisualTrader software is good, free and with real time data. I am converting over to Forex.
Regards
Steve
I have been using this site for a number of weeks with the email option. My observations are that:
a) the data is poor quality seems to be way out when compared to Yahoo, whixh is all I can do now, and b) the delivery is extremely poor. e.g. some daye no data in the email attachments other days...
Intraday data
Hi everyone, Can anyone help me please. I am looking for a small data set probably no more than 6 months of intraday data for the DOW. I have recently been reading about a phenomenon that I want to test out. It seems to work when eyeballing but I would like to backtest...
I have traded options for sometime, on and off, and generally sell/write PUTS through ODLSecurities. I have been reasonably profitable and haven't experienced the above problems as it has been mainly telephone based for selling and I get my fill confirmed more or less immediately.. Can Buy...
Thank you to all who have responded. It looks like exploring IB as a way forward. I did look at this site some time ago but found it slow on dial up. I now have Broadband. I will probably keep my Sharescope EOD as I want to keep my current Options trading style as well. Going IB may save me...