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   BioComp Systems › Bits Newsletters › Volume 1 Number 25                                         September 21, 2006

Dakota R/T 1.2.11 Release


Yesterday we released Dakota R/T version 1.2, Build 11 with faster loading of historical data, improved support for QuoteTracker historical data files (not just live streams), user interface enhancements and turned on Knowledge Base access.  Now R/T users can start seeing the results that others have contributed.  We include the good, the bad and the ugly in this Knowledge Base and so far we've have collected 560 cases on 90 tickers.  You can browse other's results by ticker, or search by various criteria including equity curve straightness or buy-and-hold ratio, etc.

We can see the bulk of the interest so far is in the S&P500 emini, the Russell 2K emini, EURUSD and the QQQQs.

This Knowledge Base will continue to grow as users share their findings to everyone's benefit, a unique feature uncommon in trading tools.  The End of Day Knowledge Base is flooding over with 10's of thousands of examples, so many we've had to start paring it down to a reasonable size.  The Knowledge Base is a valuable resource for finding good trading opportunities.

 


Tech Talk


Working the Night Shift
Someone recently asked me how to setup Dakota R/T to trade only on the off-hours bars, what I call "Working the Night Shift".  Now, I don't know how much money you can make in these odd hours, it depends on the security, but it is fairly easy to setup Dakota R/T to do this: One way is to use a ScriptStop to exit during normal trading hours.  The code in such a stop's Evaluate function is pretty simple:

Dim TimeArray
Dim BarTimeStamp
Dim CurrentTime

'Get the times sent to the stop
TimeArray = ParameterArray(1)

'The current timestamp is on the end of the array
BarTimeStamp = TimeArray(Ubound(TimeArray),1)

'The time is in MSFT Julian floating point format. We compute the current time in hours...
CurrentTime= BarTimeStamp-Int(BarTimeStamp)*24

'Compare it to the criteria the user has specified in the Stop's Parameters()
If CurrentTime > ParameterValue(1) and CurrentTime < ParameterValue(2) then

'The time is within the hours specified: Exit
Script_Evaluate = GOOUT

else

'Else let the signal pass as it is
Script_Evaluate = STAYPAT

end if

If you set the first parameter to 9 and the 2nd parameter to 16, Dakota will exit between those hours. Dakota R/T users can download this ScriptStop from the Download Center in the Forums.
 
In This Issue
Other Items Of Interest
See Dakota Swarm TechnologyTM  trading systems perform on a wide variety of securities
You can build your own trading bots for BioComp Dakota using Visual Basic 6.
 

 
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