Recent content by Steve-E

OK, so maybe the titles a bit OTT... Has anybody else wondered what will happen when they finally get (usefull) quantum computers (QC) working? As traders, pretty much everything we do relies on being able to transfer large amounts of data securely. When they finally get QC's going, it will be...

This is just the same as trading the underlying security. If the price gaps through your stop-loss, they will just fill your order at the next price traded. I had a similar case trading C&W last December (real shares not SB), I had a stop loss at 80p, it closed one night at 83.5 and opened the...

I'm considering purchasing Tradesim for Metastock. Does anyone out there use tradesim, and if so, do they rate it? I have found the backtesting in MS8 useful, but a bit restrictive/confusing in it's position sizing and limit setting models and was hoping that tradesim would give me more...

I don't want to turn this into an indicator/no indicator thread...but personally I find some indicators give me a better visual clue than pure price/volume action. No matter what you use, price/volume/MACD/RSI/Stoch's/CCI/horoscope at some point (or several) it is going to be wrong. The 10% of...

Any TA system that becomes very popular can create a self fulfilling prophecy, people tend to work out trendlines and the such in very similar ways. 'Trading fairytales' was a good description that I heard. Support/Resistance is slightly different, for example... 12/11/2002 BAE Systems Open-...