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Thanks, Larry Connors' book is still available from this earlier thread on TL: In 2004 Connors published How Markets Really Work, a Quantitative Guide to Stock Market Behavior.

eotpro is available for the TS platform, in fact Bill is fairly active on the TS forum. A little pricey at $144 per month lease, here is an explanation of the system by Bill:

Most intermarket analyses are talking about spread and/or correlation. Barry over at Emini-watch can explain this better than I could with some examples using TS (Tradestation).

Some reviews here. Intermarket analysis should be straight forward with charting packages that can accept multiple data series in a single chart/study (such as TS, MC, Investor/RT, Neoticker etc).

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This is similar to IB adv-decl : Most charting programs are unable to handle this peculiar type of symbol from IB. BTW, Opentick may no longer be accepting new subscriptions. Did you subscribe to OT recently?

Another view of the market. All these "pundits" have a position in the market, so nobody is un-bias Speculative demands in commodities

Thanks, if the link at CNBC doesn't work all the time, try http://video.aol.com/video-detail/boone-pickens-on-alternative-energy/3350866335 Save you the trouble of watching Boone by summarizing: Long oil, natural gas, wind and solar, the latter two will supplement natural gas, allowing ng to be used as transportation fuel. Ethanol is a joke (5% energy max). All the politicians are a joke, just trying to get elected or re-elected. Re Boone as DOE secretary: the last time we had CEOs of oil corporations in charge of energy policy ... well we tried that already didn't we.

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Hlm probably has the best advice so far as you are most likely trying out different platforms after initially trying Tradestation (TS). These two threads talked about Infinity and OEC: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f3/infinity-at-trade-performance-analysis-3163.html http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f32/demo-or-paper-trading-for-e-3725.html One platform that could take data from TS and do trade simulations is Ninjatrader (NT), and that is certainly a free for simulation platform that you should try out. Their DOM is competent enough and feature rich enough and their simulator is probably as good as any out there (IMHO, it is better than the newly released TS simulator because you could quickly switch from simulation to live and you could replay any recorded data for further practice and analysis). Beware that actual live trading with NT is not free and there is no way to trade with TS- RJOBrien as the broker because TS does not allow an open API to route the live orders using a third party software such as Ninjatrader. What you will learn from NT is not all for loss because there are many other brokers that will take live trade signals from NT.

The broker review forum is here: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/broker.php

The TS DOM is not something built for the discretionary trader for complex orders, although you can create macros with the macro wizard and use the .PlaceOrder macro command and the PlaceOrder function to issue orders to the market. https://www.tradestation.com/Discussions/Topic.aspx?Topic_ID=62739 If you do a lot of discretionary trading, you may want to try the various DOM add ons such as Ninjatrader, Brackettrader, Buttontrader, Zerolinetrader etc... Brackettrader is free 5 contracts and under and the fixed 3 built in symbols (ES, NQ and ER2, I believe); works with IB (Interactivebroker).

A double bullish pattern occuring in the daily chart of GLD, the gold ETF, with a caveat emptor in it's fundamentals. The blue formation is a bullish Gartley pattern and the bullish Wolfe wave is in green. Sometimes the technical patterns look much better than the fundamentals. If this was crude oil or it's ETF, one would probably jump all over it, but fundamentally, gold may be in a slide or trade sideways for a while, basically because there may simply be a lack of world wide demand for it. Unlike crude, the annual demand for gold is only about $14 billion, while the annual supply/recycling of gold is about $77 billion. The Asian middle class demand for gold may also be waning - it is hard to buy a lot of gold if you are struggling to pay for increasing prices in food. We may not see another peak this year, 2008, in gold as we saw in mid march unless we see another Bear Stearns like financial event again.

The OP neither attached these files nor posted the URL correctly. The following should be correct. Here are the correct URL of OP's MP charts from Investor/RT : http://www.charthub.com/png.php?png=2008/05/07/MP_ES_3.png http://www.charthub.com/png.php?png=2008/05/07/MP_ES_4.png http://www.charthub.com/png.php?png=2008/05/07/MP_ES_6.png

http://www.forex-tsd.com/indicators-metatrader-4/12671-need-better-moving-average-try-nma.html

jj, thank you for the contribution, but this is probably the wrong indicator that was initially attached. There is no code for OnBarUpdate(), so it doesn't plot. Ninjatrader 6.5 doesn't support plotting of synthetic bars natively, so overriding the plot method is normally required for OHLC values : [Description("Enter the description of your new custom indicator here")] [Gui.Design.DisplayName("jjvaluecharts")] public class valuecharts : Indicator { #region Variables // Wizard generated variables private int numbars = 5; // Default setting for Numbars // User defined variables (add any user defined variables below) #endregion /// <summary> /// This method is used to configure the indicator and is called once before any bar data is loaded. /// </summary> protected override void Initialize() { Add(new Plot(Color.FromKnownColor(KnownColor.Orange), PlotStyle.Dot, "Vhigh0")); Add(new Plot(Color.FromKnownColor(KnownColor.Orange), PlotStyle.Dot, "Vlow0")); Add(new Plot(Color.FromKnownColor(KnownColor.Orange), PlotStyle.Dot, "Vclose0")); Add(new Plot(Color.FromKnownColor(KnownColor.Orange), PlotStyle.Dot, "Vopen0")); CalculateOnBarClose = false; Overlay = false; PriceTypeSupported = true; } /// <summary> /// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick) /// </summary> [color="DarkOrange"] protected override void OnBarUpdate() { // Use this method for calculating your indicator values. Assign a value to each // plot below by replacing 'Close[0]' with your own formula. }[/color]

Thank you fs. The IBM chart above had the symbol tick setting set to: For volume use 'Trade vol' instead of 'Tick count', so in fact the chart had the exchange reported volume. If it was set to: For volume use 'Tick count', then the volume shown would had been 'UpTicks', as you wrote.

Sorry waveslider, didn't see your reply earlier. Here is the entire IBM pattern for April 2008. There are 3 Ww indicators with varying settings so it is picking up quite a few swing highs and lows. Most of the bearish patterns in red were nullified or never completed in April. IBM had great earnings reported after hours on 4/16 and it nearly reached the 2002 high of 125.50. I don't follow Ww much, but when I scan it I do see a ton of good signals. This is the first time I noticed how Ww can help in tracking a earnings play on a stock. Yes, Barry has some good ideas on indicators and the Better Volume gives a little more detail at a glance than just a regular volume. His systems are hardly fool proof though, I still remember two years ago he had a YM futures autotrading system on C2 that completely blew up after initial impressive gains for about 6-8 months.

You will need Tradestation, radarscreen and data feed subscriptions, then import the indicator above. https://www.tradestation.com/fees/subscription_op.shtm

Unfortunately there are still a lot more choices with Windows than OSX, so you may want to consider Parallels or VMWare (don't forget to add memory). Most futures trader uses a DOM (depth of market) entry of some sort, which autotradersoftware doesn't seem to support. BTW, Jerry Sy (autotradersoftware) is the brother of Larry Sy, who is the author of Bracket Trader (BT) Both are very affordable/free and limited free mode for BT. Brothers Sy are good programmers and good guys. Don't forget to register/donate if you find their software of use.

Tradestation has just added 96 new indexes, including the long awaited $ADD (NYSE Advancing Issues – Declining Issues Difference ) and $VOLD ( NYSE Up Volume – Down Volume Difference). This means you could now plot these and apply indicators directly onto the chart instead of the awkward work around subplots in the past with simulated candlesticks. I think we have all bashed TS to some extent here and elsewhere when they messed up, but kudos to them for providing these new indexes. Personally, I think this is more important than the silly simulator they have recently introduced.

If you are referring to just the Clayburg DDFilter, Stratman, Abaris et al has done a copy in this thread on the TS forum.TTM and Clayburg, on the other hand, has combined DDF with Value Charts and came up with a mixed system which you have to buy from either one of them.

Congratulations Frank. You have achieved a first. The only Google search result for "auction trend" and "market profile" yielded this one and only URL: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=%22auction+trend%22+%22market+profile%22 which is this thread. What is auction trend? aside from your current description of 'value placement'? Is it Market Profile based? Could you share a more specific description of your indicator? Thanks.

Sorry, don't really program Excel but here is a link for doing Pearson correlation in Excel: http://www.mnstate.edu/wasson/ed602calccorr.htm However, correlation of multiple data series is fairly easy in Tradestation EL. One can import more data points and additional data series as well (such as the other sectors). re: code for TS Correlation: Insert 15 min chart SPY as data 1, XLF, XLE, XLY, XLP as data 2,3,4,5 respectively. You will need real time subscription if you are using TS for mixing these data. MC doesn't complain as much about these data. Then apply the following indicator (name it Correlation4 for example):

Very nice Ww bullish action on IBM. This one is earnings report driven and was very quick (could be over, IBM reports after hrs). This is just an observation after the fact. No position.