Quah, Assuming the ES rallies 300 points how will you calculate an adjustment to the 1/1.25? Or will you still use those values? --MIKE
So if i were to place a buy stop order midnight at 96 for a stock that closed at 95.. regardless of what happens outside of 9:30-4:00 my order...
DEF, Are you saying that the new one will have stops trigerred outside regular market as default? If so that crazy... I am sure some one wont...
1) For US stocks, stops are not triggered by market action outside of regular market hours (i.e., 9:30 am to 4:00pm ET). --- DEF, Is...
What is the default right now?
If I were to place a stop loss for a stock I went long during the day and hold the stock overnight along with the stop loss... is it possible for...
What about stops getting hit overnight for stocks? Whats there policy regarding stops for stocks overnight? --MIKE
Interesting observation regarding greed... traders say that one should not be greedy and take profits when you can.. not when you have to. From...
I am confused maybe you guys can help me out. Assuming the ES is trading at 900. My plan is to buy a breakout at 901. So i want to enter a buy...
Can someone post backtested results ? --MIKE
Let me get this straight.. So you wait for the clock to strike lets say 9:33.. than at 9:33:01 you place a limit order to go long or short at the...
If you are really serious about this strategy.. I would backtest it with various setups on various min. bars. Can someone do this and document it...
I am still confused as to exactly how you trade? Can you provide an example using a chart? --MIKE
I dont get it. What are you using as the limit.. the open of the bar.. thats impossible to nail in realtime? --MIKE
If only someone can write up the QUAH API for IB's TWS than we would have the holy grail.. lol.. I'm still curious as to how one picks to go...
I dont get one thing Quah... when you enter the trade .. do you sychronize your watch with the market. Do you just place a market order the second...
Well.. the smoother the index overall.. the easier it is to pick tops and bottoms.. less headfakes. The ES/NQ is the king of headfakes. For...
Wondering why you guys think the ESTX50 is a "smoother" futures index than the ES/NQ? Any reason in particular why this is the case? --MIKE
Was anyone able to incorporate the stop into their system and be profitable? --MIKE
I just wanted to know if anyone was using IB's trailing stop for futures? Are there glitches to it? Does it work flawlessly? --MIKE
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