Recent Content by geoMEAN

  1. How safe are segregated accounts

    If the segregated funds are kept at a bank with FDIC protection, then yes the first $250K is protected under FDIC. That only protects you if the...
    Post by: geoMEAN, Nov 5, 2011 in forum: Trading

  2. 1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    I'd be OK with the proposed financial transaction tax the day Bill Gates is OK with a 50% sales tax on every Microsoft product sold anywhere in...
    Post by: geoMEAN, Nov 5, 2011 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  3. Corzine hires Criminal Attorney.

    This Corzine guy needs to be punished for ruining the reputation of the futures industry and the confidence in segregated accounts. Clients from...
    Post by: geoMEAN, Nov 4, 2011 in forum: Wall St. News

  4. Turtle System in Tradestation 9 Easy Language

    Not sure where Tradestation is at these days but Trading Blox or Amibroker may allow you more portfolio control for such a system. I haven't use...
    Post by: geoMEAN, Nov 4, 2011 in forum: Automated Trading

  5. Can't connect to TRADESTATION's Trading Servers

    Actually not so sure about not being able to write strategies in OEC. Go investigate for yourself.
    Post by: geoMEAN, May 5, 2009 in forum: Retail Brokers

  6. Can't connect to TRADESTATION's Trading Servers

    From what I HEARD (no first hand experience), with OEC is basically like a Ninjatrader in that you can receive SMTP (email) signals from...
    Post by: geoMEAN, May 4, 2009 in forum: Retail Brokers

  7. Can't connect to TRADESTATION's Trading Servers

    Ray, Thanks for replying. This is very good news for some of us locked into using Tradestation + Ninjatrader combination. I will go hunt...
    Post by: geoMEAN, May 4, 2009 in forum: Retail Brokers

  8. Can't connect to TRADESTATION's Trading Servers

    If I was just going to trade manually I would use Ninjatrader by itself with zenfire live feed with Mirus in a heartbeat.
    Post by: geoMEAN, May 3, 2009 in forum: Retail Brokers

  9. Can't connect to TRADESTATION's Trading Servers

    I'm completely automated/mechanical trader so I need a platform where I can code my strategies other than Tradestation, so free me in that way.
    Post by: geoMEAN, May 3, 2009 in forum: Retail Brokers

  10. Can't connect to TRADESTATION's Trading Servers

    Sideshow, Yeah I use the SMTP interface (email) to send orders from Tradestation to Ninjatrader. So OEC, would be very similar and probably not...
    Post by: geoMEAN, May 3, 2009 in forum: Retail Brokers

  11. Can't connect to TRADESTATION's Trading Servers

    Well, after all our complaining, Tradestation decided to extend to May 31st the retirement of 8.3. Hopefully they will get 8.6 super stable by...
    Post by: geoMEAN, May 3, 2009 in forum: Retail Brokers

  12. Average down disaster

    Just my two cents, I prefer to never average down / martingale / add risk when i am losing. I prefer the fixed fractional method of compounding...
    Post by: geoMEAN, Apr 28, 2009 in forum: Risk Management

  13. I'm so LOST and feeling stupid. This is very long!!

    20% a year, every year is not pathetic regardless the type of trading. If you can do that, and establish a track record of doing that with...
    Post by: geoMEAN, Apr 28, 2009 in forum: Risk Management

  14. NT + Zenfire is the best? Hmm...

    Yes zen-fire I think is very reliable, I almost don't want others to know about it for fear that more people getting on the ZF bandwagon will make...
    Post by: geoMEAN, Apr 28, 2009 in forum: Retail Brokers

  15. Mirus rates for YM

    Can't say anything about Infinity as I haven't tried them but I have been using Ninja/zen-fire with Mirus for over a year and a half and I have...
    Post by: geoMEAN, Apr 28, 2009 in forum: Retail Brokers