I am thinking about sometime in September as of now, after labor day. See, if we don't do it by June , then the Summer gets in the way. I would like to discuss topics which would interest people. This could become a series in the CT gold coast where we can do this for 3-4 different topics or multi-session single topics. Where I am planning to have these events can hold between 25-300 people and the food is also very good.
It depends on whether you want to do a "social" event, in the meetup.com spirit, or a "seminar." I think their would be an audience for either. The question is whether you want to meet & greet the local community, get to know them, make connections -- or start off right away with a commercial enterprise... In either case, I'm looking forward to it.
I was really surprised by the pic of Mr. Ruggiero. I was picturing a scrawny fellow with a square haircut sporting square specs with a penchant for wearing short sleeve madras shirts with a few pens stuffed in the breast pocket. Interestingly I have one for most every author I have read or even poster on this site I have interacted with, it is automatic I don't think about it. I have noticed allot of times I end up being right. In this case I was way off.
I plan on doing a seminar. I think this offers the best value for both the people who attend and myself. I might even video the session and produce a DVD. See, if I do a seminar for profit it makes it easier to give valuable content and not just content which is marketing. I will make products available but, it changes the the focus of the event.
I always though it was important of offer a discounted price on data for new customers. If your data is not good you do not have any chance of making money trading.
Hi, I have a need to do some testing against a series of individual contracts (not the usual back-adjusted stuff). Can you tell me if Tradersstudio, or the Pro version I should say, can do that? If so, how? I'm not aware that this is something that is possible for a lone gunman like me, although it is very desirable. And that, quite frankly, is a pain in the ass... Thx D
Yes, it can be done in TradersStudio by treating the individual contracts like markets in a portfiolo. So you create a session which is made up of the individual contracts. Then you need to use a little special code. First we need a function which tell us if the current date is between two different dates ' TradersStudio(r) copyright 2004-2011, All rights reserved ' This function return true if the "TheDate" passed is between the From Day and month and the DayTo day and month ' It is used in calculating which contract to trade. Function BetweenDates(TheDate, monthFrom, dayFrom, monthTo, DayTo) As Boolean Dim dMonth As Integer Dim dDay As Integer Dim bOK As Boolean Dim corrDate As Integer Dim corrFrom As Integer Dim corrTo As Integer dMonth = Month(TheDate) dDay = DayOfMonth(TheDate) corrDate = dMonth * 100 + dDay corrFrom = monthFrom * 100 + dayFrom corrTo = monthTo * 100 + DayTo If corrFrom > corrTo Then Print "wrong input for BetweenDates" StopRun End If BetweenDates = (corrFrom <= corrDate) And (corrDate <= corrTo) End Function The we use this function as follows ' TradersStudio(r) copyright 2004-2011, All rights reserved ' This example uses portfiolo capablities of TradersStudio to trade indivdual contracts in for the SP500 Sub SP500SingleContracts() Dim lastChar As String Dim fileYear As Integer Dim bOK As Boolean Dim CleanSymbol As String CleanSymbol=thismarket.Symbol(0) If InStr(thisMarket.Symbol(0),".") Then CleanSymbol=Left(CleanSymbol,Len(CleanSymbol)-4) End If lastChar = Ucase(Right(CleanSymbol, 1)) fileYear = CInt(Mid(CleanSymbol, 2, 4)) If fileYear = Year(Date) + 1 Then If lastChar = "H" Then If BetweenDates(Date, 12, 9, 12, 31) Then 'Print CDate(Date), " : H (1)" bOK = True End If End If End If If fileYear = Year(Date) Then If lastChar = "H" Then If BetweenDates(Date, 1, 1, 3, 9) Then 'Print CDate(Date), " : H (2)" bOK = True End If End If If lastChar = "M" Then If betweenDates(Date, 3, 10, 6, 9) Then 'Print CDate(Date), " : M" bOK = True End If End If If lastChar = "U" Then If betweenDates(Date, 6, 10, 9, 9) Then 'Print CDate(Date), " : U" bOK = True End If End If If lastChar = "Z" Then If betweenDates(Date, 9, 10, 12, 9) Then 'Print CDate(Date), " : Z" bOK = True End If End If End If If bOK Then ' call your original system here ChanBreakOut(20) Else ExitAllTrades End If End Sub You can see we use the symbol name and see if the current date is one in which that contract should of been active. If that is the case we run our system which could be anything inside the If bOK then statement. This current implementation has a weakness. We only use the current active contract. We could use the active contract as mom series and the previous contract as independent1. Then we could deal with having active data for longer lookback periods.