Before you could only buy Backtesting as a yearly subscription. But, I'm pleased to announce that you can now buy monthly Backtesting subscriptions for just $20. If you use TS properly, you'll be using $20 bills as tissues pretty soon, so jump on board :-)
The User Manual is finished. I officially declare that nightmare to be over :-)
All that's left is for people to actually read it.
Inside is a nifty diagram of how TS makes its trading decisions.
Anyway, back to coding...
The second release of the User Manual is out. The most important additions are the sections on how to set up Trading Systems. Bunch of other new sections as well.
It now stands at 177 pages, so don't be alarmed if there's a spelling mis-steak in there somewhere.
The User Manual is still in progress. It currently stands at 145 pages. And just like making the software itself, writing the User Manual is a task that just doesn't want to finish. But I think it's very important to do. Give me another week or two on that, and I'll get back to finishing the Medved QuoteTracker integration.
Personally, I had 3 goals for the 6 months just ended. First was to lose some weight. I'm down 6kg. Not fantastic, but not bad. Another 10 to go :-)
Second was to increase my savings. A fantastic trading plan is nothing without capital behind it. That's done too. Incidentally, my 6-month contract has been extended another 6 months. So I'll be on the Gold Coast for a little bit longer at least.
Third was to find a decent girlfriend. I'd been living on my parents' farm for the 12 months previous, and there aren't a lot of girls there. The nearest neighbour was 1km away. That goal... it's hard to say. The thing was that I didn't want to jump into a relationship with just any girl. Relationships are easy to get into, but it's hard to get out.
I remembered to take down the offer of free Alerts, which expired at the end of June 30. But I didn't think of the consequences for people who had taken up that offer - i.e. they would now have to pay in order to continue using that functionality.
Sorry about that. Just $20 a month though.
Been to the movies a couple of times recently. Note that this post does contain spoilers.
Transformers
Transformers is an excellent 90 minute movie. Unfortunately it goes for 2.5 hours. There's a lot of dead time in it.
When they do transform, you can't make out any detail - you can just see a big blur of movement. Similarly with the action scenes - they've got the whole shake-the-camera thing going which I've always found annoying. The second Bourne movie was the same.
There was, however, one scene where I thought "ok, now that's cool". I can't remember what happens in that scene, but it was a 5-second experience. Out of 2.5 hours.
Yes I had the toys when I was a kid :-)
Oceans 13
I really liked Oceans 11. They told you all the problems they had to overcome, and we were left hanging as to how they would overcome them. Then the SWAT team came, and it all looked like it was going badly. Ok, we all knew they would intercept the call to the SWAT team, but there was some suspense there. Then they revealed how they did it, and it was all good.
Oceans 12 sucked. At the end they spring the train sequence on you, and you're left thinking "When did they ever mention anything about a train?". The only scene was them standing on a platform at a train station. And the "oh, Julia Roberts' character looks a lot like Julia Roberts" scheme, was poor. The only good thing was that the cop at the end was Matt Damon's mother.
So off I went to Oceans 13. In this one, (and here's the spoiler in case you don't want to read any further), they tell you what they are going to do... and then they do it. It's better than 12, but not as good as 11. The cool part was that the outside of the casino itself, which you see fairly often, looks very real but is actually all computer wizardry.