Recent content by laocoon

Hi Twalker How do you backtest a strategy for the S&P emini future on TS2000 over a couple of years, since the contract expires 4 times a year? (sorry for this stupid question but I spent hours trying to figure that out on TS before writing this post). Thanks a lot Cheers

Hi I'm looking for a way to backtest and auto-trade some swing trading strategies for the DAX futures. Since Tradestation doesn't offer European Data Feed, I'm looking for an alternative. (My trading account is with IB). Thanks for your input. Cheers

Thanks Glenn, this really helps! Cheers

Great, this is exactly what I was looking for...... Thanks so much!

Since you seem to know Sierra pretty well, is it possible to create "Quote Board" type of windows ? By quote board I mean a text-only window with Open/High/Low/Close & Last price Thanks

Now I got it....thanks a lot!

That's what I did, but I don't want to have one big window stretching across 2 screens, I want to have multiple windows of different sizes that I can drag from one screen to the other (like in eSignal, Quotetracker and many others...)

Thanks for your feedback. I recently switched from eSignal to Sierra (because the Eurex data feed on eSignal is unreliable) and I'm currently replicating the visual environment I had before within Sierra. Everything is working OK so far, but I just don't understand how to run Sierra with a...

Thanks for your quick reply. Am I all set with IB, Sierra & SCMagic or do I need something else? (I need historical data as well for analysis) A lot of people seem to be using Mytrack, but I haven't been able to figure out why I would need it. Thanks again.

I'm currently daytrading the DAX Futures with IB and eSignal, but I'm considering to drop eSignal and switch to Sierra because there have been delay problems between IB and eSignal. Could you tell me more about the problems you are having with the Dax Futures on Sierra ? Thanks