Last night I got some chart software programming accomplished. I can now see bars, trades and quotes. Over the weekend my task to get some indicators on to them, particularily pivots, Bollinger Bands of two or three different time frames, volume historgrams, and a zig zag indicator. A little further down the road, the zig zag indicator will be used for 'snapping' trend/support/resistance lines in to place to help solidify some chart patterns.
I looked in on COIL again this morning. I got sidetracked watching it and didn't realize
the rest of the market had opened. When I did notice what was happening, a lot of things
went south. It was all well and good that I didn't do anything. There will always be
another trading day, and hopefully for Tuesday I can have my basket trading in place.
That is, I'm hoping to finish off the order entry bit that talks to Interactive
Brokers. In doing so, I can then finish the integration my order basket tracking. Each
evening, I run three different stock selection filters and come up with a total of about 40
different
symbols with associated entry parameters. If all goes well, I can do some semi-automated
trading: ie let the computer get my entries in first thing in the morning, then I can
monitor the profit curve and start setting stop-loss points to generate automated exits.