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what anti virus software have you tried?

joking aside... there are a number of possible scenarios, and you are not providing a lot of info for debug... one thing you should notice though, is the barnumber is different. i.e. your indicator and strategy are not starting their calculations from the same bar. thus the difference in result. you should set the MaxBarsBack to the same value. i.e. don't use Auto Detect.

value1 = 0; value2 = 0; value3 = 0; value4 = 0; value5 = 0;

funny I am running into a problem, here's my print: /////indicator print ///// -1.00 1.44 1.12 1.00 1090819.00date 931.00time 1701.00 barnumber ///// strategy print ///// 1.00 3.77 2.55 2.30 1090819.00date 931.00time 8886.00 barnumber anybody got any idea?

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That's the lunch time lull...

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When China real estate prices collapse, would it be the final nail of the coffin for the World economy?

I don't know of any keywords or commands you can use to "program" your strategy in the event of signal failure/absence. and I really don't know, realistically or practically, anything NT can do. Let me explain, NT is an event driven program. (which is how 99.9% of the charting software works) Event-driven means your program is sitting idle ALL the time. It is not updating your chart, it is not re-calculating your indicators, it is not doing anything... just sit there... waiting... for the "event" to happen. The "event" being a new tick. When a new tick comes in, the software will spring to life... it will re-calculate the indicators, it will update the chart, it will take whatever actions directed by your strategy. In the absence of a new tick... the indicator/strategy is just sitting idle... not doing anything. Hope you see a better picture...

To be exact, he is concerned the broker connection. The zen connection can be in a dll.

Open your Task Manger... look under the Processes or the Services tab... all your resident programs are there.

I thought we were discussing FACTS... No need to be juvenile.

I don't know of ONE broker that allows you to have direct connection to their server. There is ALWAYS a connecting program resident in YOUR computer. This program might not be visible to you, but it is there.

You mean you are complaining about something that does not exist ??? LOL

TWS automatically and continuously retries connection when broken. This is just a basic function, I am sure any broker's software would do the same.

I still do not understand your point... so what would happen if there is a disconnection? what would do what? 1. the broker software would take some action? like what? 2. the broker server would take some action? e.g. liquidate your positions? do you program the broker's side for action? 3. NT would take some action? What actions?

I do not have experience in this... I have a few questions: 1. How does NT detect disconnection with other brokers? (which brokers?) 2. What is NT going to do if there is a disconnection? 3. How is NT going to alert you if there is a disconnection?

Can you give an example on how you could do this with other broker/trading software combination?

I think you are splitting hair on what I said... read my signature line, and read my post again, and see if I have contra'ed any of the things you mentioned above.

TWS has audio alarms that alert you if the internet connection is broken. You set it under the Configuration menu.

this is a very common misconception... let me explain and maybe you can see the differences. 1. All data suppliers aggregate their data, inlcuding eSignal. (read the fine print) 2. The data from the exchanges can be aggregated !!! e.g. read the CME fine print. i.e. you had aggregated data to begin with, what difference does it make if the data supplier also aggregates the data? 3. IB aggregates the data to the MAXIMUM of 250ms. i.e. if there were 10 ticks in a second, you could get as many as 10 packets of quotes, or you could get as little as 4 packets of quotes, or anything in between, ...but not less than 4. 250ms is the max latency, not the given. 4. ALL broker quotes are aggregated, some aggregate more than 250ms. i.e. IB's data is not any worse than your "other" alternatives. IB got more publicity, because misinformation gets pass on faster than facts. HTH

This is China ??? Sounds and looks like a repeat of Dubai to me. http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/business/2009/12/30/vause.china.the.great.bubble.cnn http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/12/30/china.property.bubble/index.html

IB has more than 24 hist data besides, I don't do much long term intraday backtest. The only long term tests I do are with EOD index data, which I can get from Yahoo or Google Finance. e.g. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^HSI http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^SPX

I just remembered that you mention forex in another post... sorry, I don't trade forex... can't help you with forex related information.