"valid" only depends on your strategy. Most day traders do not wait for a bar to finish, only for a price to be hit. If your system demands that a price closes over a MA, etc, then yes, you have to wait for the end of the period.
As I said I'm checking out Ninja software now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brokerage & Data Feed Support It is important that a client side trading platform supports industry leading exchange connectivity providers to ensure that the entire chain that makes up the electronic trading process is solid and lightning fast. You can currently connect NinjaTrader through the following connectivity providers. Brokerage/Exchange Connectivity Providers Interactive Brokers MB Trading Patsystems - most FCM's and introducing brokers that support Paystems Trading Technologies - most FCM's and introducing brokers that support Trading Technologies See a partial list of supporting brokerage partners. Data Feed Connectivity Providers DTN.iQ eSignal TrackData TradeStation ALSO MORE HERE FROM SITE: You can connect NinjaTraderTM to both your broker and data feed simultaneously. If one feed goes down, NinjaTraderTM automatically fails over to the other connection! Supported data feed providers include all of our supported brokers plus eSignal, DTN.IQ and TrackData. From the above data providers, which one(s) should I NOT consider from the standpoint of the e-mini S&P 500 futures? This would be from the standpoint of simulated trading for now. Thanks, -Stephen
You're missing the point. Trading doesn't stop and start with the beginning and ending of a bar, regardless of how the bar is displayed. It flows. If you want to catch the "beginning" of a move, you look for changes in the flow. Do "we all" wait for the close of a bar or whatever? No. But many if not most do. Which is why they're so easily caught on the wrong side of the trade.
Absolutely right. But how you order that information (bars, charts) is key to perceiving what you are looking for. For intraday gyrations (eg YM), it is a key consideration if you want to enter your trade in a new move at the very bottom of the preceding opposite move or at the very beginning of the new move.
I'm trying to display a chart. I used to know how to take the image on the screen and paste it into clipboard and view it. I forgot how. Ctrl-Alt-PrintScreen???then??? Right clicking on the chart brings up a non-Windows menu. (The Ninja menu.) -Stephen
I hope this link helps... http://www.andyrathbone.com/tips/clipbrd.html also, once you have an Image in clipboard memory an easy way to see it is paste it into MS Word Doc... i do this a lot... best... cj... __________________ HAVE STOP - WILL TRADE If You Have The Vision We Have The Code
EdgeHunter You are a genius. I have got it into My Pictures. I will try to post it. If you have the music we have the chords. hee hee (That is, microtonal music.) -Stephen