I'm pretty sure natural language is as difficult if not more difficult as understanding innate patterns in the forex market--sans news events.

IBM's Watson Algorithm

Why not start a fund? Find a trader who makes a lot of money using your numbers, hire that trader to manage however much money you can acquire and split the profits?

FOREX Market Reversal Levels

Ooh Another bug. I need to check the code that updates the repository. Thanks again for the update! And yes, I do use this database every day. But I store everything in a private database so I can query it at will.

Tick Database Version 2

Thanks for the update ben. I'm looking into it.

Tick Database Version 2

To those who are asking why you wouldn't simply trade for yourself consider the following: Would you rather keep 100% of 100,000 or 1% of 100,000,000? As for a career path, I suggest finding a prop trading firm that will help you get your series 7 ...

Trading job without degree, would I qualify?

Okay. I'm interested.

Need Trading System Testers

I actually try to curve-fit my EAs. As a general rule of thumb, I optimize my EAs against the previous month or so, a relatively short period of time. I am betting on the assumption that the market will continue the overall macro trend for at least ...

Optimization, statistics, and avoidance of curve fitting

Let's say the spread is 0.9 pips per pair. For every 100,000, that's a $9 commission round trip. Let's further say the firm does something to the tune of 100M in average daily volume. Assuming there are 200 trading days in a year, that's 1.8M in ...

How profitable is the forex broker business model?

double LastOpen = iOpen(NULL,lookupTimeFrame,iOpen(NU LL,lookupTimeFrame,MODE_OPEN,z-x,x)); You are using a second iOpen as the shift value for the first iOpen.

iOPEN

Well if your database isn't constantly expanding, it doesn't really matter what schema you use. I would be more worried about getting the queries working first then focusing on optimizing the database.

best SQL schema for tick data

I'm assuming you double checked the settings used? MT4 optimization is basically a backtest of every permutation. So if there's a difference, it's usually human error somewhere.

Optimization giving wrong profit

You're entering the datetime as a string it looks like.

Help with iBarsShift

Not even close

Old Dog with New Tricks

You can set the affinity of individual terminal.exe (metatrader platforms) instances. Basically means I can assign each platform to a different code.

Need a powerful new PC

I second this, but be careful with refurbished, I've seen on dell's website that new is cheaper for refurbished.

Need a powerful new PC

url Not sure what the prices are in Ireland but it can't be too far off.

Need a powerful new PC

Looks like you hit a huge news spike.

Old Dog with New Tricks

Your data then goes back to approximately July 2009 on your charts? Can you post a picture showing the losses? If the losses are spread out, then my guess would be spread spikes. If the losses are close together, you may have hit a mini-swan. ...

Old Dog with New Tricks

What is your budget?

Need a powerful new PC