Well it has taken me the entire day, but I finally have everything pretty much back in order. This morning I spent many hours getting all of my indicators back when TS locked up on me again and I had to shut it down. When I started to start TS back up I started getting the same ominous pre-going-to-delete-all-of-your-data indicators so I immediately pulled the plug on the whole computer as I still hadn’t saved some of my work to a non-tradestation folder.

My only hope was to try upgrading tradestation and pray that the errors would go away in the transfer process from the old release to the new. Lucky for me this seemed to do the trick and I was at least able to promptly back up all of my data! One issue solved at least.

Unfortunately, between coding, upgrading, backing up, and running a number of PC Utilities, that pretty much shot my trading day. I’ve spent the past couple of hours downgrading my blog from WordPress 2.0 to WordPress 1.5 so that I can get all of the old link structures to work again. So take note any of you who have linked to my site in the previous week, they probably won’t work anymore if they have wilytrader.com/index.php/ in them…the index.php is no longer needed for any of my links and all is well again as far as my blog is concerned.

Part of the downgrade process entailed re-posting any posts that I have written between now and when I originally upgraded (about 10 days ago). So those of you who subscribe via email are going to be receiving a slew of email posts and I do apologize. This was a one-time ordeal and I promise not to make a habit of overloading your RSS readers in the future : – P

Looks like things will be back to normal tomorrow.

So my wife and I get back from dinner last night, I go to check my email and the computer is locked up. I am unable to shut down normally so I do a manual reboot. Thinking everything is fine, a little while later I then go start up TradeStation and BAM ….”deleting Indicator X”….”deleting indicator y”….”deleting”, “deleting”, “deleting”…

OMG! I thought as I watched all of my indicators be deleted by TradeStation right before my eyes. Lucky for me this happened to me the very firsts week I used TS so I have gotten into a relatively frequent habit of backing everything up. Unfortunately for me, I usually back everything up on Monday nights and had yet to do so this week. Thus I lost about 10 hours worth of work that I had been doing from last week. Could have been worse, but still sucks.

On top of that, I was going through my blog stats and noticed that my click-through rate had dropped by over 70% since I “upgraded” to WordPress 2.0. Apparently any old within-site links that I have within my posts no longer work and merely bring users back to the homepage. I started to fix the problem manually but then came to my senses as I’d just have to change them all back again if I ever change my link-structure in the future. Subsequently I have decided to downgrade back down to WordPress 1.5 until a better solution can be found with WP 2.0.

This downgrade is now on my much longer list of things to do so the site may experience temporary outtages in the next day or so as I switch everything back over. I do apologize for the inconvenience but i think it has to be done.

And I never did get around to writing that post on Market Delta, but it too is on the list; But I’ll admit that presently I have other priorities that must be taken care of.

Ahhhh Technology!