Recent Content by Harald

  1. Any Berlin (Germany) Traders?

    Bratislava is a 1 hour drive from Vienna (50 miles).... just have a look at the tax rates.
    Post by: Harald, Jan 24, 2010 in forum: Hook Up

  2. Any Berlin (Germany) Traders?

    Have been living and working in London, Paris, Zurich and Berlin. Some thoughts on this: None of the DAX30 companies has its headquarters in...
    Post by: Harald, Jan 1, 2010 in forum: Hook Up

  3. Indicators are liars! Support and Resistance Trading for the S&P emini

    Although pivot levels R3, R4, S3 and S4 are rarely used, I have found three different formulas for them, two of these are also repeatedly...
    Post by: Harald, Nov 3, 2009 in forum: Index Futures

  4. NinjaTrader - Stay Away From It!

    For order execution / semi-automated strategies an alternative would be ButtonTrader. For charting and backtesting you will find quite a number of...
    Post by: Harald, Mar 27, 2009 in forum: Trading Software

  5. NinjaTrader - Stay Away From It!

    You can easily connect NT to the API of TWS. I did not try NT with QuoteTracker. Why should I connect NT to QuoteTracker and QuoteTracker to a...
    Post by: Harald, Mar 26, 2009 in forum: Trading Software

  6. NinjaTrader - Stay Away From It!

    I am using NT with Interactive Brokers. It is a bit tricky, but in the end it works. I do have some crashes during backfill, which is when I...
    Post by: Harald, Mar 9, 2009 in forum: Trading Software

  7. IB get your head out of your XXX and fix the charts

    Definitely agree: IB is a brokerage and not a software company, that means - In the first place I would look for fast, proper and...
    Post by: Harald, Dec 2, 2008 in forum: Order Execution

  8. IB backfill is terrible!

    I am using monthly pivots on my charts. These are calculated from the data of the previous month. For NYMEX I cannot use them, because half of...
    Post by: Harald, Nov 11, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  9. IB backfill is terrible!

    All NYMEX futures (also CLZ8, GCZ8 - the main crude and gold contracts traded!): No data is available prior to 16 october. That is when IB had...
    Post by: Harald, Nov 10, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  10. IB backfill is terrible!

    We should not complain about charting of IB. It is not their main business and they provide a working API that allows you to run hundreds of...
    Post by: Harald, Nov 10, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  11. NT or QT ?

    Sometimes I tried to connect to 20 instruments realtime and also backfilling them, which occasionally caused NT to lock itself. I guess it is not...
    Post by: Harald, Nov 2, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  12. Ninja Trader with OpenTick -- Slow?

    Open instrument manager and search for ES. The instrument is ES 12-08 and it is preconfigured by NinjaTrader for OpenTick. Edit the instrument,...
    Post by: Harald, Nov 2, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  13. NT or QT ?

    First of all, I would not want to compare QuoteTracker and NinjaTrader. QuoteTracker is a nice and intelligently designed little charting...
    Post by: Harald, Nov 1, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  14. Ninja Trader with OpenTick -- Slow?

    OpenTick is slow during normal hours, for a faster download connect during week-ends. To my experience you can download ES, NQ, YM, currency...
    Post by: Harald, Nov 1, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  15. ib backfill of futures and QuoteTracker not working right

    There is no backfill data for TF today. So today's menu is a choice between no charts (Globex) and empty charts (ICE-NYBOT).
    Post by: Harald, Oct 21, 2008 in forum: Trading Software