Art, Nice work, and I enjoyed your book. Good recipes are always appreciated! Thunderous
Tradestation will allow you to program your own stoploss rules based on any definable criteria. You just need to test for your moving average...
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....
If your strategies are coded in TradeStation, look into Rina Systems. It is expensive, but well worth the money imo.
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...
Corso - I trade stocks and futures. The slippage refers to stocks. I generally find little to no slippage in futures. Thunderous
Corso - I run automated systems on TradeStation. Assuming you are talking about entering via market orders and taking your stops at the market, I...
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....
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...
Norm, Good question. I have run my systems unattended, and in some cases during overseas travels. I have only done so after learning the...
Stephen, Good thread. If you've backtested thoroughly, are comfortable with the historical drawdowns of your system, and find that your...
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....
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