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Strategies & Market Trends : Trading For A Living -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: World Wide Trader who wrote (249)	5/25/1998 2:13:00 AM
From: Deep Margin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1729

General Request: I've got a lot of travel and boring hotel rooms in a couple weeks and thought it would be a fine time to develop and backtest various trading systems. Trying to decide which software to buy. TradeStation sounds awesome but expensive. Is it truly worth it? The latest Windows on Wallstreet also sounds OK but don't know anyone who's tried it. Etc etc. Would sure appreciate any comments on backtesting experience with any of the commercially available software using a) end-of-day data for short-term trades, and b) intraday for daytrading. For those who like me are more inclined to position trade than daytrade because of time constraints, Gary Smith has an interesting series of articles at TheStreet.com (you can take a 2 week free trial and read his archives, tho I think TSC is worth the $10/month). Enjoyed reading thru this thread tonight. Good luck and profits to us all. mpf Eric P, I too am in awe. Keep us posted.

To: World Wide Trader who wrote (249)	5/27/1998 11:23:00 AM
From: Danny Kumamoto	Respond to of 1729

Anyone trade while travelling overseas? I have plans to go to France and Japan (twice each and maybe few other countries, too) this year and want to be in touch with the US markets. Any suggestions on ISP (I don't make enough money to buy a satellite phone system,yet), software, hardware? I know AOL, ibm.net and compuserve (now AOL) have global reach. Anyone else? I figure a Linux + lynx on a notebook would be the fastest way to trade on 9-14k modem connections. (Linux + lynx on Palm III may be a light weight option.) Danny