The title of the thread gives away my preference for the smooth movement of the ESTX50; the lower amount of noise in the price signal leads to...
I read 2 of those threads, and "Is my career over" was different than "I lost $400,000". I had to plow through 50 pages with a lot of it being...
Selling short on a future is just like turning the monitor upside-down and going long. But shorting a stock is just a little different. Not...
Sounds like you cut the loss a lot quicker than back when this thread was started. For me, after rule #1 about capital preservation, I'm gonna...
Don't feel like the lone stranger there.... This thread helped me address some basic errors to eliminate propensity for huge loss. But I'm...
Open account with IB -- lots of compatible software and they provide a good data feed (which would cost $ with eSignal, iqfeed, etc). Charting:...
Here's a quick dumb and dumber story on how this thread helped me. I just resumed FX trading after a long layoff; had 6 good sessions then 1...
Neoticker is a great foundation for charting, programming and backtesting; eSignal is good but expensive data for it. Interactive Brokers has so...
Best bang for the buck because of: - excellent charting capabilities; - excellent programming capabilities; - excellent hook-up capabilities...
In the econ classes I took decades ago they taught that industries with fewer than 6 to 8 suppliers were oligopolies, and in oligopoly markets...
Go. An extra middleman is always a bad thing.
The free one is IBCharts(www.ibcharts.com). It intrigued me enough to download it and it looks good. Haven't used it because no backfill from IB...
I've got both WL and NeoTicker, and I've programmed indicators in both, along with backtest systems in WL. NeoTicker is without doubt the...
I've got a Shuttle and I like it because it's quiet. I upgraded it to 2.5 GHz and 768MB for trading (with an 80GB fluid bearing drive for...
Start with an IB account because MANY add-ons are available (e.g. "trade mgmt" pkgs like AutoTrader, BracketTrader, ButtonTrader, FuturesTrader,...
I've been a past user, current user or potential user of all but one of the products you tested and reported on. Thanks for the useful info --...
No, no affiliations here. Devoted to trading, through a more general interest in my bank balance (and this site has helped A LOT). I'm a...
My usage of IB with hotkeys/shortcuts has hit a snag -- although I prefer trailing stops without profit targets, and that's what I used in...
I originally put this on page 23 of another thread, but decided to give this thought a shot at its own thread: After daytrading stocks for a...
After daytrading stocks for a very short while with IB, using trailing stops by right-clicking a not-yet-transmitted order, I discovered (of...
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