Recent content by Hammer61

Finally updated the desktop and now have windows 8.1, Tradeststion loads fine using the compatibility mode but one key feature wont work and that’s the strategy performance report???, strange as I can run an optimisation test and displays the results of that and all other features of the...

So now we have Windows 8 !, im still using and very happy with my old TS 2000, maybe an oldie but very much a goody, and IMO still the best piece of software out there despite the lack of portfolio testing. Anyone tried loading it onto Windows 8 ?

Been a couple of years but from memory you need to turn off User access control in the control panel then Start Windows in safe mode and install TS2000 normally, Im running Win 7 proffessional 64 bit and also needed to select the instal in Xp 32 bit mode, i assume if your running the 32 bit...

I’m looking for advice/opinion from any experienced long term commodity futures about risk and markets. I’ve traded successfully for a few years but know looking to expand into the commodities futures like Corn, Wheat, Natural Gas etc, I have developed a simple system that backtests very well...

Yes, any suggestion or recommendation. Thanks

Interested to know how anyone here trading commodity futures rolls the contracts in the data they use (I use CSI), markets that roll either monthly or quarterly are quite straight forward I think but there’s also a lot of contracts that trade odd months, so Soybean Meal for example trades 8...

Has anyone tried loading TS 2000i onto a PC with windows 7 operating system ?. Does it work and are there any issues.

Has anyone traded this contract ?, any info about it, slippage, spreads etc. Always on the lookout for new markets and volumes look ok on this but you hear very little or nothing about it, so apart from the ME website i cant find much info. thanks H61

Geez MDT, you don’t won’t much do you???? I agree by your definition it doest and IMO will never exist, but I never claimed to have a system that did anything approaching that. I said I trade a mechanical system that has returned over 100%.a year, I then added that this wasn’t on a 1 market...

We could go round and round in circles here :rolleyes: At the end of the day MDT, this is a forum about trading now you can choose to believe whats posted or you don't, frankly i don't care what you believe or don't, i expressed an opinion and said i knew of simple systems that worked and i do...

My system is my system MT Im not going to give you my datails or that of my system :cheesy: I can give you a link to an Australian trader, who both sells systems and puts out a daily trading advisory you can subscribe to, this guy is the real deal trades his own money on all his systems, BTW...

I never thought you were Chorlton :) I was trying to understand were MT is coming from, thought maybe he had taken my statement about a simple entry as is all that's required. nine has clarified things though :lol:

I really am struggling to get your point ? All im saying is keep things simple, im my experience simple works, IMO the simpler a system the chances are the more robust over time it will be, on one of my previous posts I conceded that it did sound naïve by saying this came down to a simple...

Fair enough, point taken and yes maybe the statement “simple entry” does sound a bit naïve. My post should have stated that in my opinion a mechanical trading system comes down to following a simple set of rules ONE of which is a "simple enrty" when your system trggers.

Mechanicaldaytrader Not sure why the sarcasm? What is your definition of a mechanical trading system ?, isn’t it a way to trade that’s based on a set of rules that the trader follows, takes the emotion and guesswork out of trading, ive just added that I think this should be as simple as...