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MLDownloader will grab EOD data from Yahoo and convert it into Metastock format: EOD historical stock quotes/prices and FOREX data for MetaStock. They have a free trial.

Elite Trader is worth a peek, but be prepared to wade through a lot of pooh before finding useful information.

Actually, Stratasearch does not have any pre-built systems, nor is its purpose to offer any. It is a tool designed to help people develop their own systems, primarily using brute force searches.

As others have said in this thread, out-of-sample testing is a very good method for checking the robustness of a system. Varying parameters can also be effective, not for optimization, rather to check for robustness. If the parameters can be varied in a range around the initial set without...

Are we skeptical about the system because of its components? ... back test process? ... both? On paper, the simple system described would appear to be easily fooled by trending markets, as is true for many oscillator-based systems. It's not uncommon for prices to be outside their Bollinger...

A rose by any other name ... We need labels to help shove stuff into the appropriate paradigm boxes lining our brain's storage closet. If a system is consistently profitable, though, its label is should be no more than a secondary concern. Respect the system, not its description.

The article does not describe one motivating factor: passion. To be successful, certainly we need to approach our trading vocation from a profit perspective. It's also important , though, to truly enjoy what we do (most days, if not every day).

Socrates, Your comments are dead-on correct ... as noted in my response to Lion, i missed the reference to "trading" in his article. When digging deep into the fundamentals, I do it for investing purposes. Thus, at least for now, it is best that I bow out of these discussions since I do not...

Lion, You are correct ... i did not earlier understand your article to be limited to traders (a mistake created by trying to post comments while helping kids get ready for school) ... my apologies. It seems unlikely, though, that valuation plays will consistently result in profits in 3 months...

Intrinsic value, based on discounted future cash flows, is a more precise and versatile measure than those discussed in the article. Also, it is important for an investor to understand the businesses in which they are placing their capital. A brief review of a few high-level ratios is not...

We might start by re-phrasing the question slightly: Would you expect the volatility of a stock index to be higher or lower than the volatility of a typical constituent stock in that index. I don't know if re-phrasing is an option (no pun intended); it would allow an apple-to-apples comparision...

A quick Google search pulled up the same info you probably already have. As a suggestion, does it make sense to work backwards from the current list using the additions/deletions? This should create the original list.

Pietro, The software I use downloads MSN's data directly into it. Regretfully, I do not know the link used for downloading this high volume of data. You can use this link to download MSN data symbol by symbol: http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.asp?Symbol=aks This link will...

I use the MSN site for daily updates of U.S. stocks. I am usually not able to retrieve EOD prices until the next morning. There have been a few times in the past couple months that prices were not available for 2 days. The price is right even with the service delays, which do occur every so...

Jamie, I use options for directional trades of indexes. My analysis is on the underlying index, then ITM options are used to leverage the trades. Technical analysis of options can be problematic because of volatility, time decay and low liquidity. As an example, the price of OTM options might...