Traders' Roundtable

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Hi, Thanks for your interest in Trading Blox. 1) Yes, Trading Blox can use intraday data as small as 1 minute bars. Check if you can export the data from tickdata.com into a comma delimited text file with the following fields: D,T,O,H,L,C,V. 2) Yes, you can add extra data fields onto each bar of dat...

If you use an x64 machine with 10 GB of memory you should be fine. We have a Trading Blox native x64 version for this purpose.

Hi ITR2744, The Blox work independently. So if you have two entry blox each with a signal condition and broker statements, both blox will place orders into the market. So it's not an AND or an OR, but rather both. This is most useful when using multiple exit blox, and less useful for multiple entry ...

I would use instrument.SetLongRankingValue to set the ranking value to your custom strength computation in the Rank Instruments script of the Portfolio Manager. Then the instruments will be sorted and the instrument.LongRank will have the correct rank value each day. In the Entry script you can chec...

The current 2.2.6 version of Trading Blox does not support using the external dll Jurik indicators.

Yes, you can create the indicator to use, which is then computed for each instrument. You can then loop over the instruments in a particular group and tally up the number that are above/below the average. In Trading Blox you can set futures instruments to two separate groups, and stocks to the indus...

Yes, you can rank and sort all the markets based on any custom criteria. You can then enter positions in the top x% or top x markets, and exit those that are no longer on the list. This requires some code in the Builder Edition -- a sample block to test this concept is available to customer free in ...

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Yes, use the StandardDeviationLog function for that.

We don't recommend proportional backadjusting for futures. Stocks are proportionally backadjusted for stock splits. A properly backadjusted data series will reflect the actual series you see in trading, including rolls and splits, and should thus be used for all computations. In the case of stocks, ...

Yes, if you use the code above, Trading Blox will create a trade entry showing an entry and exit of 800. Then if you exit the last 200 you will have another trade with an entry and exit of 200. So a single unit entry with multiple exits becomes multiple round trip trades. Another way to approach the...

The last optional parameter in the broker function call is the quantity to exit. So you can use the following to exit 800 contracts of unit 1.
There are a number of Adjust Position functions as well to increase or decrease the position size by a percent.

As Sluggo points out, you could create a custom block to compute commission by market. These values could be loaded from an external file. Yes, you can create as many custom statistics as desired. They will show in the sortable list and parameter graphs for optimization purposes. Certainly the Money...

Here is a snippet from the user guide. Looks like you can just export the data into a csv file format. Just set the columns to D,O,H,L,C,V. http://download.sharescope.co.uk/doc/User%20Guide.pdf Exporting data Data can be exported from ShareScope for use in other programs (such as Excel). File : Expo...

Here are some suggestions from customers: ----------------------------- here's my European stock data provider: www.bullbear.it I receive data by email and "unpack them" with their software already installed on my pc. Everything goes along very smoothly. Of course, there's others, like htt...

We have no plans to develop a Mac native version. Customers that use the Parallels solution seem quite happy.

Here is a quick sample block that plots the CCI Index. The parameters are the number of bars to use for the CCI, as well as the CCI Constant. You can drop this in any system, and the CCI will plot on the trade chart. To use the cci indicator in your entry/exit block, just define an external series v...

Was moved to the Customer Support Forum. Has now been moved back. Did not realize you were using the trial version.

The system was written that way to avoid missing trades in long term systems. Individual signals can be skipped due to volume, equity, margin, or correlation constraints. Using the true crossover logic would then necessitate waiting until the next crossover to enter. With this logic the system will ...