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Re: Best Indicators For Intraday Trading Of Emini S&P500



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I would first suggest you run to the omega-list and see what they are saying
about Tradestation. And ask what they think of Tradestations trailing stops.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marshall Shoemaker" <marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:35 PM
Subject: Best Indicators For Intraday Trading Of Emini S&P500


> Gentlepeople,
>
> I just purchased MetaStock Professional and am
> madly trying to learn and apply it before my
> 30 day evaluation period runs out.
> This follows on a 60 evaluation of OmniTrader,
> which I returned because the real-time version
> does not allow one to do a reality based back test
> of the adaptive trading model to historical
> intraday data.
> Initially I am impressed with what I have seen
> in backtesting MetaStock systems on the December
> contract of the emini S&P.
> So far, however, I have just done point tests and
> have not calculated commission and slippage.
> My hope is to prove MetaStock strong enough with
> which to build a simple, strictly mechanical trading
> system and get going generating revenue ASAP,
> having spent the last four months studying but
> not trading or earning.
> I am going to open up my trading account with
> Lind Waldock through TradeStation so as to make
> use of TradeStation's capability of entering
> automatically trailing stop loss orders.
> Longer term I will be building a proprietary
> trading system based on ........ .
> I would appreciate advice, suggestions, encouragement,
> obnoxious comments, whatever you have to offer to
> help me shortcut the evaluation process.
> If you have something to share, thank you very much.
> If you have something to sell, lets hear the pitch.
> My personal email is marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Kind regards,
> Marshall
>
>
>