That's a loaded question. Every programmer has their pet language. But you have more choices from Bill Gates - he will teach you free on MSDN. If you can't do simple date reformatting in Excel you will find you are at a disadvantage in collecting ...

What's the best programming language to learn?

Thant's how it works. One at a time.

get values from indicator

sp 500 thanks — Thanks guys. I suspect the NY was the cash index, and the Chicago was the futures. This gives me something to start with. Thanks.

Planetary Cycles Trading (EUR/USD)

sp500 — Does anyone have the first trade date / natal for the SP500? Thanks, Ken.

Planetary Cycles Trading (EUR/USD)

It must match whatever is in the Marketwatch window.

DDE Feed For Silver

Yes, it is not very active now, but I think you be answered within a day or two. Lots of code there, but for another platform.

the indic tells future?!

I doubt volume would ever be less than 1, on any timeframe. I use Time[0] != SavedTime (You can handle saving last time thru) if indi is on chart in question, if the question is being asked for a higher time frame chart then I guess the answer is ...

to check start of candle

Hurst — A2: Back about 50 years ago a NASA rocket scientist named JM Hurst did extensive research on stocks using offset moving averages. He shifted his the other way tho, and then extrapolated the curve to where it might be when it met price. ...

the indic tells future?!

Ron, Guess I misunderstood your question - you also don't need a live tick to backtest, so I'm confused...

Updating EA Before Next Tick

Ron, move the EA to the scripts folder, it will run when activated even on weekends.

Updating EA Before Next Tick

use paint — I use free Windows Paint. Save as jpg to save space before uploading.

How to mark and write on the charts?

Money while you sleep — Perhaps James already knows how to trade. ??? Martingale can make money while you sleep, and if it gets into deep red ink you can bail it out when you wake up - yes, it is doable. Nanningbob does it. See his posts. And ...

Need help finding martingale ea

the dirty way — well, the dirty way is to place about a dozen "slash n"s in front of your comment string.

comment()

use offline charts — Build a .hst history file from the incoming data - see layout in PeriodConvertor.

Get DDE Data in MQL ?

se xltraders — see yahoo group xltraders: url all free - lots of examples.

Spreadsheets?

Hanover: I was tempted to start a thread just like this, but then I remembered: "No good deed goes unpunished". Especially on this forum. Thank you for trying. Ken. (and I say this with a little ;=) as I do all my posts.) ;=)

Note to programmers: Division by zero errors

Open a business - LLC (Limited Liability Company) or something similar and lie like hell. (It's the American way). Oh, wait, you're from Germany,,, maybe open an IBC (International Business Company) in Panama or Belize.

I am too young for MBTrading. What alternatives do I have?

For exchange margins go to the CMEGroup website. Most brokers offer a discount for day traders. At IB (Interactive Brokers) it's 50% with a $10K min to open an acct (Lousy charts). At Open-E-Cry what you put up is 10% (See their margin page) and $5K ...

Questions regarding Futures

url You feed data to MT4 (real-time) by building the .hst file and running your chart offline. See PeriodConvertor for layout. url

MT4 for stocks anyone know how?

Several MT4 brokers offer stock CFDs which should be ok for back testing - check BroCo and ODL, etc. If they do not have the symbol you want, and you can get the data, just load it into MT4 under a symbol that is supported and run your EA on that. ...

Strategy Tester for Stocks?