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Some TradeStation customers had experienced issues running our TicketManager application through the Strategy Network. The TradeStation Quality Assurance department was not able to replicate the issues, so having them addressed was a challenge. It has also been a very stable application in our trading for over a year. It has performed well for our key […]

See yesterday’s post: Equity Market Volume has remained low Voilà, we have the pennant breakout with equity markets volume increasing above the 21-day moving average. However trading activity slowed into the close and overall volume was still unimpressive. The above chart was produced with the default workspace of the EquityMarketsVolume indicator available on the TradeStation […]

In the image below, circled is an example of an accelerating rate in equity markets volume. Before 12:35 PM ET, trading activity was proceeding at a pace for about 6 billion shares traded (roughly the 21-day moving average). Then with increased selling activity, the rate increased so that the end-of-day equity markets volume projection is […]

It is reasonable to expect an increase in volume that will break the pennant formation seen in the chart below. With skyrocketing Oil prices, declining equity prices appear likely in the event of trading volume increases. The above chart was produced with the default workspace of the EquityMarketsVolume indicator available on the TradeStation Strategy Network.

The talk on the news is that futures are down and Oil spikes over 100. Here are the relative changes in futures since yesterday’s close: See the previous post about SeasonalTrends for the Oil contract, CL. The rapid increase is counter to seasonal trends, and is hitting a strong resistance level at the end of […]

Below are SeasonalTrends patterns for the continuous Light, Sweet Crude Oil Futures (NYMEX) CL contract using the maximum available daily data at TradeStation. If you are a subscriber to SeasonalTrends on the TradeStation Strategy Network, click on the image to download the workspace.

!QCL.MyIndex and the MyIndex products were originally the same. We were deciding what name to use and kept both. Now there is a difference. We have released an extended version of the MyIndex product under the !QCL.MyIndex listing on the TradeStation Strategy Network. In addition to being able to form custom indices like the Dow […]

With the EquityMarketsVolume indicator you could have known today’s headlines hours beforehand. CNBC reported after close that today (November 14th 2011) had the lowest trading volume (for US Equities) this year. They were right as can be seen in the following chart using the EquityMarketsVolume indicator: Today ranked #220 or 220 trading days this year, […]

For years we have tracked total volume in US Equity Markets. It has been one of our most useful indicators for quickly ranking the significance of daily trading activity. Too often we hear misrepresentations of daily trading activity on major media outlets. So we figured, why not let traders see the truth for themselves – […]

A new version of MyIndex is to be available on the TradeStation Strategy Network by 11/1/2011. Even though MyIndex properly leaves the handling of data request errors to the TradeStation platform, two new inputs enable the user to specify more precisely how requests for multiple non-linear time series data streams are managed, and how any […]