If I buy and then sell the same equity twice within the same calendar year (i.e., I am completely out of the position prior to the end of the...
I'd like to use IB's Excel "sample" spreadsheet to carry out more complex conditional equity orders. However, I'm not sure if the spreadsheet is...
Although I understand that people advise against such a strategy, I'm trying to come up with the best way to exit long equity positions at the...
No question her offense was inexcusable, but 50 years (and another 10 years for evidence tampering, to be served concurrently) seems a little...
Stop losses have always been difficult for me to model on backtesting systems, particularly on overnight holds. However, for a system that is...
I've read everywhere that the normal trading times for the NQ is 9:30 to 16:15 and that the afterhours market is from 16:45 to 9:30 of the next...
First of all, thanks to all who've been answering my questions so far. I'm backtesting a system now (in Excel) that scalps the NQ based on...
I'm an equities swing trader, but I'm looking at doing NQ daytrading on the side, and I'm backtesting some strategies that involve doing all...
I'm a newbie e-mini trader, still trying to come up with some strategies, and I've been searching for at least a year's worth of NQ intraday...
For me it's leaving money on the table, rather than losing more money than I should have. Such a mentality definitely screws with how selective I...
Seems like a good resource, but is it assumed that in exchange for the free service, that any ChartScript you develop through that website gets...
In my quest to define a winning trading strategy, I'm obviously worried that all my work will be wasted, and that trading is more of an art form...
I don't know for sure if it's just been dumb luck, but I've experienced a 31% return on my total account since last Monday. I'm ecstatic,...
I noticed that it always takes ~15-30sec to get confirmation from my IB TWS when I buy or sell individual stocks routing through SMART. That...
Just trying to get a better understanding of the demographics of ET community. Hopefully these polls don't start getting to everyone,...
I'm sure this poll's probably been done before, but I wanted to find out how successful people really are trading. Right now, because I don't...
I've seen references to a 3-to-1 risk/reward ratio as a good target in several posts (for example:...
Curious as to why someone would post the mechanics of their strategy on forums such as these. My first impulse, if I had a working system, would...
I'm still working on my own system, and hope to include it as a journal some day on this forum. I wanted to ask traders out there, though, what...
I'm a novice swing trader using Scottrade, but I'm looking to switch to IB primarily for execution speed (I typically do all my trades as close to...
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