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  1. Posted

    You are unlikely to get more detailed help here than on the TS forum. The advices on the TS forum from the likes of solidus, mmillar, Javln, goose are all good and should be followed. The whole idea of optimization is to avoid calculations that you don't need or want and be sure you don't have to do it intrabar if you can help it. That is the basis of STO (same tick optimization).

     

    The Auto Detect feature can be overwritten, and the optimization can be forced to be always on or off by selecting either the On or Off setting on the Advanced tab. The setting can also be set through an EasyLanguage attribute in the code. The syntax of the attribute is:

    [sameTickOpt = Value] where Value can be either True or False

     

    If you have EasyLanguage analysis techniques which do not require that calculations occur when multiple ticks are received at the same price level, then you might consider using this new optimization setting to reduce any unnecessary CPU load and improve overall TradeStation platform performance.

     

    When plotting text, avoid updating the same text intrabar by:

    You may want to plot Text only at the End of the Bar...

     

    if (BarStatus(1)=2) then

    begin

    ::::::

    ::::::

    end;

  2. Posted

    http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f46/market-delta-footprint-for-tradestation-516.html

    Market Delta is 3rd party software that provides interesting ways of viewing bid/ask information. This information could be useful for analyzing market behavior as price approaches a key support/resistance level.

     

    For those that use TradeStation, I have created a simulation of Market Delta. Note that TradeStation provides a snapshot of the bid/ask so it won't be accurate most of the time. Therefore, I have provided an option in this analysis technique to use upticks and downticks instead. Although the bid/ask info is not completely accurate in TradeStation, you can determine whether it is good enough or if using upticks/downticks is preferred. This Market Delta indicator defaults to using upticks/downticks, which I find useful. For example, in the first chart below, a downswing is highlighted in the ES on 8/29. In the second chart, you can see that the simulation of Market Delta using upticks/downticks highlighted the net selling.

    127d1159921169-market-delta-footprint-for-tradestation-es-marketdelta.gif

  3. Posted

    LOL...I left Tradestation over their poor communication on this. I thought it was $55 for the YM data.....
    It was free then CME raised it to $55 after the CBOT buy out, then they lost some volume and got some flak and they changed it back to $10. For an instrument to be succesful, they do have to attract all types of traders.

  4. Posted

    This is not by ghkramer. The original author is Gregory Wood as previously posted here on TL: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f6/market-profile-trading-concepts-175.html#post12607

     

    TS8 already has an Activitybar called Pricedistribution so normally this is not necessary for TS users.

     

    Multicharts usage:

     

    1. Import into Power Language Editor

    2. Replace all occurances of 'v[' with 'varray['

    without the quotes of course and use replace all (Ctrl H)

    3. Compile, apply to a chart and turn the last input option (hist, for history) from false to true.

  6. Posted

    I don't know where do you get your facts, and understandably no one at the Treasury or the Fed has too much credibility right now, but Paulson should have had divested himself of GS holdings back in June 2006.

     

    Last update: 2:12 p.m. EDT June 30, 2006

    NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson filed to sell about $500 million worth of Goldman Sachs stock late Thursday shortly after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm his appointment as U.S. Treasury Secretary.

    Paulson filed to sell 3.23 million shares in a shelf offering of Goldman Sachs (GS:

     

    135.63, +2.63, +2.0%) stock according to a prospectus filed with

    regulators. Based on the bank's closing price of $152.50 on Thursday, the stock is worth about $492 million.

    The banking chieftain is unloading the shares to adhere to conflict-of-interest rules.

  8. Posted

    good potential for a 40 pt move if price can stay above 1165.

     

    Nice call on the 40 pt ES. How about a 100 ES point day ? :o

    6.01 million contracts traded 9/18/08, that is probably a record. 100 point range in ES in about 8 hours.

    They are probably trying to gap this up to reduce selling by the longs and force covering by the shorts.

    5aa70e8a0ff56_ww100espts91808.gif.6dccdcef5b31b660b87ca5fba6d2b38f.gif

  12. Posted

    It's not the same as written by the orignal author.

    It is the same as that downloadable from his site, except for the copyright notice that you left out :(

    You should just download the eld from that site if you are unable to verify the source.

    {***** Copyright www.Emini-Watch.com  All rights reserved *****}

  13. Posted

    wonderful opportunity and I don't want to blow it.

    Aaron

    You won't be blowing it. CME seat holders are just like any other traders, except they could deal with size. They blow up accounts just like every other trader, sometimes more spectacularly so.

    I would ask him/her how often do seat holders fail and how often they have to go and throw up in the bath room :)

  15. Posted

    ANd yet none of this has ANYTHING to do with the OP.

    I think you are missing the point which is that the lowest risk, highest profit trades that JC and HS take are in marketing their merchandise and subscriptions. It is not in the trade setups that they market. So if you would like to learn to make money from them then do what they do (marketing) and not what they say they do (trading).

  16. Posted

    Apparently, there's a lot of suckers born every day in the trading world. Over $2 million a year is how much JC and Hubert make from TTM.

    Listen to the first 10 mins of this webinar and you'll hear JC in his own words describe it all for ya.

    http://tinyurl.com/5jwpod

     

    -fs

    Thanks fs, where do you find these things :o

    JC said he made annually, $40K from his book, $980K from his web merchandises and $1.2Million from his subscriptions.

    He acknowledged that he is no programmer, just good at powerpoints and presentations. He has found a niche and he tells a good story to newbies - he has found a very low risk way of making money in the trading business and in the video he credited most of that to the internet.

  18. Posted

    Don't really mean to imply that the Soultrader/Ant pivot indicator is worthless. It may be more accurate to manually input the HLC because the Close value or settlement price is sometimes different from the Close you get for your instrument on a chart based on your datafeed. The most accurate settlement price will be the one you get from the exchange, such as CME.

     

    It is also arguable whether projected pivots mean anything in modern trading. They are imaginary lines that traders can choose to follow or not. It is probably more helpful to study support and resistance at natural pivots (recent highs and lows) as other threads have done, such as the ones by DBphoenix.

     

    There are many floor trader's pivot code that will extract prior HLC, the ones on TS forum are not any better than those available with a search. For example, this one is fine, courtesy of Tradersguild

    {
Floor Trader & Fibonacci Pivot Points
Developed by David Laffineuse (trader2be@gmail.com)
Version 1.0: Feb. 7, 2008
http://tradersguild.wordpress.com
}

INPUTS:
PivotType(1),  {PivotsType:1, Standard; PivotType: 2, Fibonacci}
ShowMidPoints(false),
PivotLineColor(red),
SRLineColor(yellow),
TextColor(red),
PivotLineStyle(TOOL_DASHED),
SRLineStyle(TOOL_DOTTED);

VARIABLES:
	PP(0), 
	R1(0),  R2(0), R3(0), R1R2(0), R2R3(0),
	S1(0),  S2(0), S3(0), S1S2(0), S2S3(0),
	PPR1(0), PPS1(0), R1S1(0),
	PTIME(0), SETIME(0), MAXPTS(14),COUNT(0);	{14 levels of Pivots}

ARRAYS: PivotLevel[14](0),
	LineID[14](0),
	TEXTID[14](0),
	TextSTR[14]("");

SETIME = SessionEndTime(1,3);

IF ((Date <> Date[1]) AND (BarType < 2)) THEN

BEGIN

PP = (HighD(1) + LowD(1) + CloseD(1)) / 3;

IF (PivotType = 1) THEN

	BEGIN

		{Main Pivots}

		R1 = 2*PP - LowD(1);
		S1 = 2*PP - HighD(1);
		R2 = PP - S1 + R1;
		S2 = PP - R1 + S1;
		S3 = PP - R2 + S2;
		R3 = PP - S2 + R2;

		{Mid Points}

		PPR1 = (PP+R1)/2;
		R1R2 = (R1+R2)/2;
		R2R3 = (R2+R3)/2;

		PPS1 = (PP+S1)/2;
		S1S2 = (S1+S2)/2;
		S2S3 = (S2+S3)/2;	
		R1S1 = (R1+S1)/2;
	END

 ELSE

		BEGIN

		{Fibonacci-based Pivots}

		R1 = PP + (HighD(1)-LowD(1)) * .382;
		S1 = PP - (HighD(1)-LowD(1)) * .382;
		R2 = PP + (HighD(1)-LowD(1)) * .618;
		S2 = PP - (HighD(1)-LowD(1)) * .618;
		S3 = PP - (HighD(1)-LowD(1)) * .764;
		R3 = PP + (HighD(1)-LowD(1)) * .764;		

	END;


{Pivot Level Initialization}

PivotLevel[1] = R3; 
PivotLevel[2] = R2;  
PivotLevel[3] = R1;  
PivotLevel[4] = PP;
PivotLevel[5]  = S1;
PivotLevel[6] = S2;
PivotLevel[7] = S3;

PivotLevel[8] = R2R3;  
PivotLevel[9] = R1R2;  
PivotLevel[10] = PPR1;
PivotLevel[11] = R1S1;
PivotLevel[12]  = PPS1;
PivotLevel[13] = S1S2;
PivotLevel[14] = S2S3;


{String Initialization}


TEXTSTR[1] = "R3";
TEXTSTR[2] = "R2";
TEXTSTR[3] = "R1";
TEXTSTR[4] = "PP";
TEXTSTR[5] = "S1";
TEXTSTR[6] = "S2";
TEXTSTR[7] = "S3";

TEXTSTR[8] = "R2R3";
TEXTSTR[9] = "R1R2";
TEXTSTR[10] = "PPR1";
TEXTSTR[11] = "R1S1";
TEXTSTR[12] = "PPS1";
TEXTSTR[13] = "S1S2";
TEXTSTR[14] = "S2S3";

if (ShowMidPoints = FALSE) OR (PivotType = 3) then maxpts = 7;

For Count = 1 to maxpts
	Begin
		LineID[Count] = TL_New(Date, 830, PivotLevel[count], Date, SETIME, PivotLevel[count]);
		if (count = 4) then {ACTUAL PIVOT}
			begin
				TL_SetColor(LineID[Count], PivotLineColor);				
				TL_SetStyle(LineID[Count], PivotLineStyle);						
			end

		else
			begin
				TL_SetColor(LineID[Count], SRLineColor );
				TL_SetStyle(LineID[Count], SRLineStyle);
			end;


		IF DATE = CURRENTDATE THEN 
			TL_SetExtRight(LineID[Count], true );


		TextID[Count] = Text_New(Date, SETIME, PivotLevel[Count],TEXTSTR[count]+ ":"+ NumToStr(PivotLevel[Count],2));
		Text_SetStyle(TextID[Count], 1, 1 );
		Text_SetColor(TextID[Count], TextColor );
	End;
End;

  19. Posted

    After that it looked like the indiactor was in place and I added it to a 5 minute chart and I get nothing. When I go into format the indicator, it says there are no plots (in the style tab).

    Not sure why this indicator is still being used. I don't believe Soultrader is using Tradestation any more and Ant is not around anymore. This indicator merely calculates the simple pivot formula based on MANUAL inputs of prior Daily HLC (High low close) and Weekly HLC. If you wish to use this indicator, please go to something like: http://www.mypivots.com/dn/

    and pick the instrument of your choice and find the HLCs and fill them in manually. There are pivot indicators on the TS forum that will calculate the prior HLCs and current pivots automatically.

     

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  21. Posted

    FULL ARTICLE: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aLsfDbE1JU_E&refer=home......`Would you buy $1.7 million worth of lottery tickets just because you could? No. Neither would a hedge fund manager.''

    ----------------

    The odds of BSC going bankrupt was much higher than 1 in 15 million (lottery odds) over that March weekend, it was probably closer to 1 in 5. Funny, I just realized the phrase "beware the Ides of March" suited that weekend perfectly.

  22. Posted

    Unfortunately, this appears to be a planned misadventure by Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, to fulfill his election promise of taking back the seceded regions. He was counting on a lack of reponse by Russia during the Olympics - he was wrong.

    This is not to say that Georgia has no claims to the seceded regions, but this was a miscalculated way of trying to get them back. US and NATO should not get involve in this.

  24. Posted

    I've been taking this stuff for a month and can't give it enough praise.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiracetamThe taste is pretty terrible when you start off but I've already aquired the taste that I look forward to it.

    Piracetam also seems to inhibit brain damage caused by a variety of factors including hypoxia and excessive alcohol consumption.

    Oh good, does it mix well in a cocktail? ;)

    But seriously, how do you take this stuff, in a milk shake? It looks like you need to take 1.6-9.6 grams daily (2-12 pills daily).

  25. Posted

    Anyone use neoticker? Its expensive, but has been around for years and seems to be outpacing the rest.

    Neoticker looks interesting and Lawrence Chan writes a nice blog :http://newsletter.neoticker.com/

    Flatwallet has written a good review right here on TL: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f92/re-experience-with-neoticker-3327.html#post37285 A lot of good info by Flatwallet, especially the part where you can save 33% off NeoT with the openecry offer:

    http://www.openecry.com/special/announcement.cfm

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