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Good question! IFF we were near EOD today (is currently 8:21AM Pacific -- would prefer entry after 12:45 Pacific) and IFF the terms were in Backwardation (they are NOT so I would not enter trade) the new trade (since today is up, expect tomorrow to be down) would be something like BUY +1...

For the near (foreseeable?) future, I don't plan to mix Day of Week in time spreads terms (if front is Monday, back is also Monday, etc.) I have found (for my very short term trades) I trade direction as well as backwardation. Even with crappy direction reliability (between 50-58% recently)...

Long is 7 more days, so is same day of week, but following week!

I am beginning to dip my toe into some short term Calendars on SPX. Only starting to trade this week, based on what I observe on what works for past year. I am holding for one trading day and exiting with 1 DTE remaining. The reason for not trading it on last day is that the last day has lost...

Hitting too close to home! ;-)

Issue may have been my fault! I have not be insuring my TOS was still running on my server, and may not have been updating from here! -- Getting older, and forgetting to check things on a regular interval.

Wishing Gaby a full and quick recovery!

I just "doodled" a bit with this and it seems to be functional. Years ago, I coded with Perl, and used something similar there, which had lots of capability, that may also be avail here. When using the Perl implementation, I was able to modify some of the VB structures to set the Refresh rate...

If one really likes Excel for stuff, but has no interest in VB, and wishes to do everything in Python.... There are free python packages that allow you to create and manage Excel either hidden or visible from Python. I am not currently using these, but if I ever have a need for Excel and drive...

I should have read a few lines before posting! It seems this is expensive, while I "thought" it was free! Price is too steep for me.

Have not studied this, but could make Excel more attractive to those of us that are very fond of Python (and who despise "basic")! "https://towardsdatascience.com/python-jupyter-notebooks-in-excel-5ab34fc6439"

I often think of this topic (with desire for self improvement) There is also a more discomforting observation to trusting false information. I keep recalling Jack Nicholson's rant in "a few good men". " You can't handle the truth!" We so much want things to be simple, clean, clear, and...

I kinda think TOS may have added a timer (in recent years) to insure TOS is rebooted after 7 days of being active! {I seem to recall them recommending TOS be rebooted daily} Your observation of not having the issue and reboot weekly {or sooner} matches that of Jim, who also restarts TOS...

I seem to be getting these more often! Really annoying if you are trying to automate! Maybe result of not manually rebooting/restarting TOS frequent enough! -- I thought I rebooted each weekend, but may have forgotten again!

I think most use the MID price which is close enough most of the time. However, it seems to be the Achilles heal of most backtests, where the results become useless for assessing validity. One would think tool providers, would give this flaw some consideration. Note: TOS Papermoney has same...

Will do! Good idea.

When I am back in the country where I have access again, should I continue, to update, or will your updates be sufficient?

My limited observations on "unrealistic results" for backtesting were traced back to use of MID for "realistic" pricing. (MID alone, is not reliable determination of realistic price in some cases) The case M12 mentions, of consecutive hits resolved the most common issue. For that case both...

I have been pushing data to Tom's Market lights / Market Sentiment area on the Aeromir Home page to keep it updated for a few years. I will be unable to access the system that runs the update process till Early October, and apparently TOS (source for much of the data) ceased working Thursday...

IMHO: Jack Nicholson pined it correctly by stating: "You can't handle the truth!" ... "" We all prefer things that are logical and make sense, and not gut wrenchingly painful! -- Seldom is that the case! On the contrary, if the information is nauseating, it is more likely one is getting a...