Recent content by TriageTrader

I am in Hong Kong and Southern China (Guangzhou). When on the HK side, I have no problems with internet connection or access to trading data or brokerages. In China, there shouldn't be much of a problem with speed of connections to data vendors and brokerages outside of China. The latency is...

Life is like a box of Godiva chocolates. It's damn expensive.

One of the problems I have with some commodities ETFs is that the volume is too low. For the bigger commodity ETF names like DJP, DBC, RJI, etc., they are easier to trade. But commodity ETF's that are narrower in scope or inverse commodities ETFs have some wider spreads and a bit of a...

Recently, I was a "victim" of ARP spoofing. I always keep my trading computers extremely clean and only do trading activities on them. I have a computer solely for web surfing and research. But that wasn't enough to secure my network. With a single compromised computer that I use for web...

Regarding pattern recognition, you can find and purchase Tradestation add-ons from third party software developers that do a pretty good job. There are also more high tech like artificial intelligence add-ons that could help you classify patterns, which probably would require some more...

Tradestation forums and community are excellent. And the trading platform is easily programmable. You don't need a team of programmers or to outsource trading system development. You could do it yourself. However, if you trade international markets, then Tradestation pales in comparison to...

NetTecture, I apologize if I offended you. I didn't mean to insult all programmers or consultants. I hope my post didn't come across that way. I meant that it was a shame that for whatever reason the choice of the programmer did not meet the needs of the trader. He or she obviously picked the...

It's a shame that you weren't careful enough with who you picked to be your programmer. But you might be able to use a macro to turn off the system from another indicator or strategy. This may require some help from someone here. But it's more of a band-aid to the problem than a long-term solution.