Hello everyone.

I found this automatic trendline code on the Traders.com website: http://www.traders.com/Documentation/FEEDbk_docs/Archive/112006/TradersTips/TradersTips.html

It is for the Siligardos Autotrendline indicator.

I have tried verifying or compiling the code in Tradestation, but there seems to be two functions that are in the code but NOT in Tradestation.

These functions are: "Trendlineup" and "Trendlinedown"

I was wondering if anyone had these functions or knew if there were newer functions that replaced them?

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated?

Thank you

Dear All,

I finally figured out how to setup and run a scalable server with Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). It sounded to me like the ideal platform for an algorithmic strategy since it would be very reliable and could also temporarily boost computational power for an occasional optimization or market scanning procedure. However, based on my testing, it was pretty slow. Big disappointment since it was so challenging to set up. It is definitely not as instantly scalable as Amazon makes it sound- you can fundamentally see why if you setup an instance on your own; basically it takes about 10 minutes to bring more processing power online and it is done manually by booting up a slave server to help the first one.

In the data mining application I used as a benchmark it was consistently 25% slower than my tiny laptop over ten iterations. Screenshots and more details are on maxdama.com.

Has anyone else tried EC2 or some other CoLo host/virtual server as a system platform and gotten better results? I'd really like an alternative to my laptop with its wireless internet.

Regards,
Max