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^^^ There is a shop that does tuning for the new CTS-V and their shop car is pushing around 750hp IIRC - The thing launched and accelerated so hard at the drag strip it triggered the OnStar crash detection due to the g-force shock of acceleration.... Must be crazy fast!

Two words - Acura NSX.

I think thats a really hard one... I think that the 670-SV will be because its the last of the Murci's and its the most hard core version yet. Honestly I don't see the Scud's or 16M's appreciating that much... I think the Carrera GT is a steal right now (prices have been dropping during the '07 collapse and are starting to bounce up again). I think its an iconic car and its limited production and current prices all lean towards good appreciation. Maybe the Enzo... the Bugatti and Reventon's are out as far as i'm concerned because I think the pricing is ludicrous as is - let alone thinking they will appreciate that much beyond where they are right now.

One trade today (well one winner, the other was a par).... again just lower high reversal trades... I took profit at prior Support after seeing prices stall and start to reverse there.... Again, hindsight is 20/20 and the thing caved but i'll take my little +12 profit and waltzed away.

I'm really amazed at the praise i'm hearing for spot. I've traded fixed and variable spread spot brokers including Gain, MBT, FXDD, and some others and switching over to the futures market was the best thing i've ever done. - This stat is thrown around a lot but its not like your in one big liquidity pool in the spot market, most shops you are taking positions against them and not actually hitting the market, and not interacting with the actual liquidity pool per se... so whats the point? I forgot where I read it but there is some stat thrown around as well that of that 95%, like 65% of that volume is institutional and isn't accessed by the retail side to begin with. Hopefully i'm not talking completely out of my ass. - By the same token there are only a few spot markets that have good enough liquidty to trade actively. - I know MBT kicked me off for rollover everyday.... - Thats great, but then by that measure the futures market does this automatically. - I do concede that variable position sizing and micro lots have futures markets beat fair and square. But IMO, if you can't cough up 2k to trade the 6B contract live maybe you should stay on sim mode a bit longer. - OEC has free charting as well with easylanguage and C# support, other brokers like AMP offer Ninja to their clients at no additional charge. Now if you're trading swing on daily, 4 hour charts, etc where a couple pips slippage isn't the biggest deal go for spot. But if you are an active trader and want guaranteed 1 pip spreads on every market then I don't get how anyone can say that spot is a realistic alternative because it just isn't. Take a real time quote from a fixed spread broker thats known for being pretty tight on their spreads, Oanda... RIght now the GBPUSD is at a 2.5 pip spread. I get a 1 pip spread on my futures account. So i'f i'm trading for say an taking a long at 14808 using a buy stop to enter the market... in the 6B and I get in and to my 11 pip target I make 11 pips, minus 5.45 for my commission. If I take the same position in spot first off i'm going to have to put a limit order in after price makes a move up and maybe or maybe not get filled as you can't use buy/sell stops to enter. Then if i'm doing the next best thing which is entering after that initial move up is entering at the market and taking taking the spread against me and my 11 pips turns into 8.5 assuming the same move. Assuming the same position sizing the futures account is up $63.30 and the spot account is up $53.12 And i'm sorry, I get that 1 pip spread no matter the time of day in the futures market, and don't even tell me that spreads don't widen on spot... I know on MBT all the spreads go wide after the London close and trading at night even around the Asian open the spreads were significantly larger than during US market hours. As far as people saying there isn't enough liquidity? Really? I know of guys who are clearing 300 lot orders in the 6E without any issues. I doubt any of us are or ever will be pushing 10% of that size. Yes I do get slipped a tick on occasion. I had 8 trades this week so far and I have been slipped a total of 1 tick thus far. The most I was ever slipped was 2 ticks and that was due to trading right ahead of a EIA Petro report in the GCL. I've done the math personally and I don't see ANY advantage to trading spot other than variable lot sizing.

Used subbie? Audi quattro?

us poor us folk never got the 996 gt3rs stateside... and hell even normal gt3's are still around 60k here. Still a 20k premium over a turbo!

Been a long while... but i'm back (kinda/sorta)... Switched over to range charts, re-evaluated and filtered a lot of setups... But at the core of everything is still the same HL/LH pattern be it a reversal or a continuation pullback. Still daytrading purely and not nearly on the timeframes you all are... Anyhow... one trade today, took +7 and went on my way. Cheers!

Awesome to see you out of your DD and making new equity highs jason!

Bingo... was sooooo close to going the E46 route but the subframe issues scared me not to mention it seemed like there were TONS of normal maintenance things you had to do... RTAB bushings, shims, etc. I second the 996 vote. Only thing you have to watch out for is RMS leaks, which are easy to spot ahead of purchase and if the clutch has been replaced most likely it won't be an issue anyway. Other than that the entire car is practically bomb proof. Seems like the best bang for the buck. Personally I just can't get over the front bumpers on the 99-01 C2/C4's... I'd have to up the ante to a C4S or Turbo... Normal mileage turbos can be had for under 40k.... Thats a 100-120k discount off sticker folks... and it is a true supercar. Don't know of much that can touch its performance potential out of the box for less money.

Dinero - did you ever find out anything more or have your data reinstated?

I never bother with FOMC days. Slow slop before, spastic after - no "normal" action 90% of the time. I gotta admit though, I look forward to them. I get a nice little mini vacation each time. Spent my day sleeping in, watching movies, and working on my tennis serve! All in all - a great FOMC day for me!

Bathrobe is our resident "big stick" live trader. I believe he posted up a 60k day in the '09 thread. Certainly left me with room to improve...

Thanks for all the helpful ideas gents. Turns out this is a platform bug that is being addressed and they have given me a similar workaround to AAA's suggestion until its fixed. Cheers!

i opened a forex account being told I got forex and futures data and I did. Now that has been changed by OEC (and apparetnly i'm not the only one this is affecting). If i was told that forex got forex data and futures accounts got futures data, etc... then i'd understand, I never would've opened the account and as you stated, there would be no point to this thread. However, that is not and was not the case.

Glad to know I wasn't the only one who "fell through the cracks". Can't wait to hear what you find out. Worst case i'll pay for the demo feed, but free is always nicer isn't it?

Thought we could start up a bug log for 3.5 if you came across any. I found a big one that impacts my trading (i guess thats the only reason its a "big bug"). I let support know about it today, but I thought I'd repost here to see if you guys could confirm it isn't working on your installs as well? In 3.4.0.8 you can go into your chart configurations and under “Additional Fractional Digits” in the Data Box sub category you can add additional fractions to the data box. In 3.5 however, everything is rounded up to two decimals. And while the same settings on the charts are there, 3.5 has cut off the additional fractional decimal and changing the setting to more numbers simply doesn’t work. I’ve attached some pictures of what I’m talking about. Hopefully that illustrates the issue. Basically the “additional fractional digits” chart setting no longer works in 3.5.

Yea I get that I was "getting free data" but from my standpoint being told time and time again all data was free no matter what account you had (and then having this be my reality for the past 3 months) now feels like i'm being screwed (even if in reality i'm apparently just really really lucky for the past 3 months). They said they changed no billing or procedural stuff over the past week so they are befuddled at how I got the data to begin with. I guess I was just curious to see if anyone else was in the same boat?

OEC is now telling me that Forex customers have always gotten only forex data and that I need a futures account to see futures data and this has always been the case... which is odd because customer service explicitly told me I got all data with any level of account before I signed up (the only reason I did sign up)... and i've been trading live off of their futures data on my forex only account for the past 3 months. Anyone else getting screwed by OEC out there?

Thanks for your suggestions... I tried the OEC version of what you said and changed the "Additional Fractional Digits" of the data box to 3 (it was on 1) however it made no change. I also did the rounding change to the plots and again nothing. I would just do a numtstr tag and manually change the print.... but OEC doesn't support that. Anyone know of an OEC supported print function that I can added decimals to?

So, the new build of OEC Trader comes out and works just dandy (well kind of) but one of the things it did change was how it calculated some of my indicators. This is the easylanguage code for the ADXVMA: Inputs: ADX_Bars(5), MA_SMA_1_EMA_2_HMA_3(1), Extra_MA_Length(1), DownColor(Red), UpColor(Blue), ChopColor(Yellow); Vars: TR(0),DI_Diff(0), DI_Sum(0),ma(0),pdm(0),mdm(0),pdi(0),mdi(0), DI_Factor(0), VI(0), diff(0), HHV(0), LLV(0),WeightDM(ADX_Bars), WeightDI(ADX_Bars), WeightDX(ADX_Bars),ChandeEMA(ADX_Bars),out(0),j(0),MAPlot(0); ma=Close; pdm=0; mdm=0; pdi=0; mdi=0; out=0; pdm=0; mdm=0; if(Close>Close[1]) then pdm=Close-Close[1] else mdm=Close[1]-Close;//This array is not displayed. pdm=((WeightDM-1)*pdm[1] + pdm)/WeightDM;//ema. mdm=((WeightDM-1)*mdm[1] + mdm)/WeightDM;//ema. TR=pdm+mdm; if (TR>0) then begin pdi=pdm/TR; mdi=mdm/TR; end else begin pdi=0; mdi=0; end; pdi=((WeightDI-1)*pdi[1] + pdi)/WeightDI;//ema. mdi=((WeightDI-1)*mdi[1] + mdi)/WeightDI;//ema. DI_Diff=pdi-mdi; if (DI_Diff<0) then DI_Diff= -DI_Diff;//Only positive momentum signals are used. DI_Sum=pdi+mdi; DI_Factor=0;//Zero case, DI_Diff will also be zero when DI_Sum is zero. if (DI_Sum>0) then out=DI_Diff/DI_Sum else out=0; out=((WeightDX-1)*out[1] + out)/WeightDX; if (out>out[1]) then begin HHV=out; LLV=out[1]; end else begin HHV=out[1]; LLV=out; end; for j = 1 to adx_bars-1 begin if(out[j+1]>HHV)then HHV=out[j+1]; if(out[j+1]<LLV) then LLV=out[j+1]; end; diff = HHV - LLV; VI=0; if (diff>0) then VI=(out-LLV)/diff; ma=((ChandeEMA-VI)*ma[1]+VI*Close)/ChandeEMA;//Chande VMA formula with ema built in. if MA_SMA_1_EMA_2_HMA_3 = 1 then MAPlot = average(ma,Extra_MA_Length); if MA_SMA_1_EMA_2_HMA_3 = 2 then MAPlot = xaverage(ma,Extra_MA_Length); if MA_SMA_1_EMA_2_HMA_3 = 3 then MAPlot = JTHMA(ma,Extra_MA_Length); Plot1(ma,"ADXVMA"); Plot2(MAPlot,"ExtraMA"); #function jtHMA Inputs: price(NumericSeries), length(NumericSimple); Vars: halvedLength(0), sqrRootLength(0); { Original equation is: --------------------- waverage(2*waverage(close,period/2)-waverage(close ,period), SquareRoot(Period) Implementation below is more efficient with lengthy Weighted Moving Averages. In addition, the length needs to be converted to an integer value after it is halved and its square root is obtained in order for this to work with Weighted Moving Averaging } if ((ceiling(length / 2.00) - (length / 2.00)) <= 0.50) then halvedLength = ceiling(length / 2.00) else halvedLength = floor(length / 2.00); if ((ceiling(SquareRoot(length)) - SquareRoot(length)) <= 0.50) then sqrRootLength = ceiling(SquareRoot(length)) else sqrRootLength = floor(SquareRoot(length)); Value1 = 2.00 * WAverage(price, halvedLength); Value2 = WAverage(price, length); Value3 = WAverage((Value1 - Value2), sqrRootLength); jtHMA = Value3; Originally the indicator plotted its calculations like this... 89.781, now on the new version of OEC everything is rounded to 89.78. That extra .001 actually plays a key role in how I want to trade so is there any way to force the code to give me an extra decimal spot? *and i guess I should mention that the attached code is in OEC version... it won't import to TS unless you copy/paste the function and compile it separately...* I was just hoping this was an obvious quick fix that wouldn't require importing it. Cheers!*

FYI Guys - if you log in to the OEC website and click on software downloads they have both a 3.5 demo and 3.5 live version available to download.

I have a forex only account with OEC and have had access to all futures data without any problems. Today I seem to have none whatsoever. Its present in OEC Trader 3.5 Demo, but not in my real account which leads me to believe that the data is there, but maybe they have implemented some kind of new account filtering? If so i'm fubared. Anyone having issues or know anything?

Check out Shia Labeouf on Kimmel talking about his "trading research". Turned 20k into 450k+ lol... gotta love it. He sounds like he really got bit by the trading bug. But the best part is his story about the guys on his prop firm that all went to jail! lol! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP0C-G_iWAg]YouTube - Shia LaBeouf Talks About Making Money[/ame]

Oh my holy lord... PAINTBAR COMPATIBILITY!!!!!!! *edit* I just checked and this works as well in 3.4.0.8!