Recent content by Sledgehammer

Preamble Hello, some of you may remember me; I haven’t posted for a year or so. I notice some of my old friends are still around, though generally on other threads. I started full time trading DA about four years ago as a newbie, but quite frankly I couldn’t keep up with my outgoings (school...

MASH (showing my age, lol) edit: and i don't mean the US version with the laughter track. I mean the rest-of-the-world version.

FC well done. worth investigating. i want to backtest on the ftse, but when i import data (date OHLC) from my quote vendor into excel the oldest date is at the top and the latest date is at the bottom. how do i flip the columns upside down, but maintain the rows? (apologies if i don't respond...

does it involve donkeys and carpets?

short Dec FTSE at 4743, stop at 41.5 oh, sorry. wrong thread

This probably doesn't help, but: I funded my broker account (Ffasttrade, part of MAN group) by using my NatWest online to send them GBP to their bank account at Bank of America in London. Usual sort code etc. I only trade FTSE etc, so my core balance remains in GBP but I rack up commission in...

02 December 2004 07:36:59 Exchange [Liffe] : Exchange message. , ftse100 outer limits are set as 65 ticks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 December 2004 07:36:13 Exchange [Liffe] : Exchange message. , ftse100 preopening call is set as 4764.5

You should get it with a DA platform, which has the exchange messages streaming in. They give you the FTSE opening call and range (normally 50 points, but not always). It normally is at about 07.45. Wherever it opens it will always go and touch the opening call, normally sooner rather than...

you're cheating. you're using genesis

ok, thanks. bad luck

sorry to be nosey and butt in. (i use a DA platform to trade the FTSE future, but I'm thinking of opening an SB account to trade the Dow cash to hone my genesis skills!). Hence, i've been lurking on this thread. the Dow just made a high of 10221.11, so how did you get stopped at 10225 trendie...

FC he doesn't. it's Peter Gabriel or am I stuck in the past? LOL

LOL FC where did you get those numbers from? please don't give the game away!

stewart et al I'm sorry that you don't understand the manual that was issued by dc. I found it easy to understand, together with the excel workbook. In fact, i have gained so much confidence with it that i'm now considering returning to swing type trading. At the moment i am more comfortable...

wisest yes, a mental stop to start with usually. not always. it depends. i lost a couple of points just now actually. i had a limit order to buy at 4298.5, with a stop at 4296. the order at 4298.5 got filled, then so did my stop! if i had suffered the pain for a few minutes with no stop then...