Recent Content by otayah

  1. stops not hidden at IB?

    Enter with iceberg orders, exit with stop-loss market orders (or preferably target limit orders) One of my theories was that entering a single...
    Post by: otayah, Nov 10, 2011 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  2. stops not hidden at IB?

    Original poster here. I've been busy with other stuff, but wanted to report back my initial findings. I've kept using IB with my stops on the...
    Post by: otayah, Nov 10, 2011 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  3. stops not hidden at IB?

    It might be a week or two, but I will periodically report back to this thread after I try different solutions. If anyone has further thoughts...
    Post by: otayah, Oct 21, 2011 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  4. stops not hidden at IB?

    All good thoughts, thanks. Hopefully some combination of iceberg and scaling in will work. Do odd lots set off bots? I like the TWS chart...
    Post by: otayah, Oct 21, 2011 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  5. stops not hidden at IB?

    Forex has exponentially more volume than even SPY. However, I thought jumping in with $100k in the highly liquid stocks I'm trading wouldn't...
    Post by: otayah, Oct 21, 2011 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  6. stops not hidden at IB?

    So I guess Futstrader believes that IB is lying and doesn't hide your stop, and shows it to others? Or somehow uses it against you themselves?...
    Post by: otayah, Oct 21, 2011 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  7. stops not hidden at IB?

    Okay, thanks. I'll take a look next week and try to report back if you have email alerts when someone replies to this thread.
    Post by: otayah, Oct 21, 2011 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  8. stops not hidden at IB?

    Are you suggesting 200 shares total regardless of stock price? Or 200 share blocks combined to equal $100k? I trade stocks from $20-$500, so...
    Post by: otayah, Oct 21, 2011 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  9. stops not hidden at IB?

    I haven't tried manual stops just because I liked the idea of the instant safety net that comes with bracket orders. Do many people really...
    Post by: otayah, Oct 20, 2011 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  10. stops not hidden at IB?

    Maybe IB not hiding stops was the wrong conclusion. Maybe a better explanation would be that the bots see a large order that doesn't seem...
    Post by: otayah, Oct 20, 2011 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  11. stops not hidden at IB?

    I manually backtested an equities strategy on 6 months of charts and it gave 200% annualized returns. Then I live-tested it in simulation on IB...
    Thread by: otayah, Oct 20, 2011, 47 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  12. Trend Lines and Price Channels through History

    For people who have been day trading stocks for 2, 5, 10, 20 years: 1. How have intraday price channels changed over the years? 2. Do...
    Thread by: otayah, Jun 4, 2011, 3 replies, in forum: Trading

  13. how good is good enough?

    Thanks for the replies. Yeah, I'll have to forward test it but I feel like the IB demo account probably isn't realistic and was looking for...
    Post by: otayah, Apr 29, 2011 in forum: Strategy Building