Recent Content by Thunderous

  1. Odds Czar: Simple Biases in the Futures Markets 2006

    Art, Nice work, and I enjoyed your book. Good recipes are always appreciated! Thunderous
    Post by: Thunderous, Nov 14, 2006 in forum: Journals

  2. programmable backtesting software

    Tradestation will allow you to program your own stoploss rules based on any definable criteria. You just need to test for your moving average...
    Post by: Thunderous, Aug 28, 2006 in forum: Trading Software

  3. Is anyone familiar with John Carter?

    I've read his book Mastering the Trade, which came out at the end of 2005. At first I wasn't very impressed, skimmed it, then put it aside....
    Post by: Thunderous, Aug 27, 2006 in forum: Trading

  4. Strategy performance monitoring

    If your strategies are coded in TradeStation, look into Rina Systems. It is expensive, but well worth the money imo.
    Post by: Thunderous, Aug 9, 2006 in forum: Trading Software

  5. Someone tell me about the realities of intraday trading

    I concur with schoops on the slippage. I never really had a problem with YM or ES, although I don't trade the ER2 or EMD so can't really comment...
    Post by: Thunderous, Aug 2, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  6. Someone tell me about the realities of intraday trading

    Corso - I trade stocks and futures. The slippage refers to stocks. I generally find little to no slippage in futures. Thunderous
    Post by: Thunderous, Aug 1, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  7. Someone tell me about the realities of intraday trading

    Corso - I run automated systems on TradeStation. Assuming you are talking about entering via market orders and taking your stops at the market, I...
    Post by: Thunderous, Aug 1, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  8. question to all mechanical traders

    Emprise - I have used Excel for some backtesting purposes, but found it quite cumbersome, and the input of raw data can be quite time consuming....
    Post by: Thunderous, Jul 26, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  9. TA of Equities Intraday.

    B - Good luck to you, first of all. I suspect you need a plan. Your own plan. You say you do not like scalping. That should point you...
    Post by: Thunderous, Jun 24, 2006 in forum: Strategy Building

  10. Unattended Automated Trading

    Norm, Good question. I have run my systems unattended, and in some cases during overseas travels. I have only done so after learning the...
    Post by: Thunderous, Feb 24, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  11. 1% a day consistently: possible?

    Stephen, Good thread. If you've backtested thoroughly, are comfortable with the historical drawdowns of your system, and find that your...
    Post by: Thunderous, Feb 19, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  12. Tradestation

    I've used them quite extensively as a brokerage for the last six months. The major benefit for me is the platform, backtesting, and automation....
    Post by: Thunderous, Feb 1, 2006 in forum: Retail Brokers