Recent content by linuxrules

Quotetracker can add contracts or stocks to any existing chart for comparision. You can add any indicator you like. But you would have to get data from somewhere. Like IB. Actually Quotetracker supports so many data sources I am sure you will find something. After all it's hard to trade if you...

Now the question all of us are asking is: "What are those tweaks???"

Excessive coding and testing was what changed my plans with ninjatrader. Like most people I wanted to let my computer earn my money. But instead I spent 12 or more hours each day coding, fighting software glitches, writing support tickets etc. So I figured it wa easier to do work that I get paid...

I have seen how Tradestation and Ninjtrader work, and have heard a lot about some other approaches to automated trading. You may want to think about what language would be suitable for your background, and for the future of automated trading in general. Is easylanguage still state of the art or...

I have used Ninjatrader for one year with a connection to IB. The results were mixed. IB was as good or bad as they have always been. As for NJ it was slow, forgot orders, crashed when trading, and made switching contracts more complicated than it should be. Their support is quick but I guess it...

To me it seems hard to determine whether we are in an uptrend or downtrend. Most often by the time you know the trend direction the trend is over. Once a trend line is broken, say in a downtrend, every trading book will tell you it is time to buy. Yet you really only know that this is true when...