I am probably not the right person to answer this but I think that the cash (& future ?) market is closed during the lunch. May be that can...
If it was in this old thread http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9402, Def never said that TWS always connect through the US...
www.visualroute.com (good soft) confirms what traceroute tells me. That's too bad : I live in France and my signal is crossing the ocean two...
Every morning I do a "ping" command to the IB server (gw1.ibllc.ch) to get an idea of the delay that my orders can get to be filled. Last fews...
Actually I just sit & watch to understand what is going on there. I sometimes put 1 or 2 trades here & there when things are really obvious but...
That doesn't surprise me much. I don't trade the afternoon anymore because I never could make any ⬠on ESTX when US is open. I only trade the...
75 rt with IB com (4â¬), that is 30 pts of estx to break even ! Is it your usual daily rt rate ?
In 2002, on the ESTX50 I used to buy at ask+1 tick and sell at bid-1 tick. Paying the additional tick was rewarding because you often had a 5-10...
If only i could made 1 $ this year ... :D
Actually I scalp the estx50 at the opening with some kind of success. I'de like to trade emini but I can do it only in the last hour of the...
I never heard about this guy but that is the way I trade and I like it. I don't know what he means by "agressively" but my experience tells me...
Before, I used to take 10 trades a day, then I went down to 5 and I am now between 0 and 3. When I looked back at my numbers, I realized than...
That is my story there ! One of my recent discovery. It took some time...
Use a time stop. Keep your entries as they actually are and exit exactly x minutes after (the time frame is up to you). Statistically, if you...
Funny, but if i had used a larger stop during the last 3 months, my average loss would be smaller. Why ? because I've been stopped out too...
Sorry about the confusion : the time reported in my execution line is "IB time" wich leads European time by 1 hour. It was 09:10 in France. I...
I already talked about that fact in another thread : Eurex doesn't report every trades because of a process called netting. For that reason, one...
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ I like the ESTX50 in the morning especially at the opening. After 11:00 AM, volume is weaker like...
I agree on this. You can't spend too much time with the study of your trades. Real trades. This feedback process allows you to improve your...
At the very beginning I did a lot of (useless ?) research like you are doing Aphie : Datas and datas and datas. Excel and Excel and Excel... One...
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