Tams

you can always open a real account with IB, then you get to access the papertrading account. The papertrading account streams real time data, the same data as in your real trading account. I believe you only need $3,500 to open an account, plus a minimal data fee if your commission do not reach a minimum amount.

The demo data is real, it is a replay of old data. However they don't tell you which date/time they are playing.

what's wrong with IB's demo data?

anything is possible... if you can imagine it, visualize it, quantify it, articulate it... you can program it.

how do you define "slope" ?

This indicator does something similar to what you have in mind. ABC MidPoints http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f46/abc-midpoints-7232.html 32.51

you can borrow this code and modify it to your needs. Scalper's HL Bracket (with Sound) http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f46/scalpers-hl-bracket-sound-6084.html 157.88 ps. it is always helpful to include a mock up chart to illustrate your "vision".

have you read the thread? or tried a search?

look under the TWS folder in your computer, IB provided a sample worksheet for extracting data from TWS.

the exact thing you need to do is to read the instructions.

like that famous guy said... you'll be back.

My middle name is Easy. ;-)>

Equity chart tells only part of the story, The chart I am interested in is the Intraday Draw Down chart. To give you an example why I am interested in the draw down, attached are the calls made by a "profitable" trader; he often invite people to join him in the room. This is how he makes a 1 pt profit, you'll be the judge if intraday draw down is important.

.......... use AbsValue ;-)

forget it... TIME_S is an EasyLanguage extension created by MultiCharts' TradeStation does not do sub-minute analysis. You have to get the DLL posted here in one of the posts.

put the Bollinger Bands on the chart... and observe the price behavior around it, it might give you an idea...

press the [F1] key and see... TL_NEW is available in recent releases of TradeStation, but not in the older version (eg. T2000).

the internet is a wonderful place... it allows you to make a fool out of yourself without having to feel embarrass about it. ;-)>

try this: var: month.count(0); if month(date) <> month(date)[1] then month.count = month.count + 1 ; p.s. avoid using generic variable names (ie value1, value2, etc.) because it is going to come back to haunt you.

average is easy... just get the array_sum and divide it by the number of elements. xaverage is a bit tricky, you have to add the array elements one by one and then do the calculation the long way. with the speed of modern computer, it is not an unsurmountable task.

you should use code tags. That's the # key on the top of the message window. Tagged code looks like this: if hour>hour[1] then begin for value1=0 to 14 begin htfClose[i+1]=htfClose[i]; end; htfClose[0]=Close; end;

you haven't described your array. you are talking in general terms; you will need to give specific detail to get specific answers.

xaverage works on a "series" of data. eg. xaverage(close, 20) is the exponential average of the following data series: close, close[1], close[2], close[3].... close[19] you can replace "close" with any data series you want, eg. High, High[1], High[2]...., medianprice, medianprice[1], medianprice[2]...., pivot, pivot[1], pivot[2]... , etc. ...so long as you can wrangle a series of data into xaverage... you will be ok

You have sour grape written all over your forehead... His posts are no more obscure than dbphoenix talking about his ebook, (or many cryptic posts around the internet), the only difference is -- your desire for urma's so called "secret" is greater than your wish for db's book. as in any situation, not just on an anonymous internet forum, it would take less energy to walk away from a discussion you cannot win.

If you have taken a programming course in HS or Uni or College, you will have no problem learning anything. Otherwise stick with EasyLanguage. but then, traders trade, nobody is interested in learning to program in a strange language... unless they have to. Look around the web... how many EasyLanguage script do you see? how many F# script do you see? I would go with the winner.