gw said something today that i found personally enlightening "you can't wait for perfect. it's an excuse for the status quo"
just got a call from someone representing Dun & Bradstreet, asking to verify all sorts of information about my 'business'. I assume they find...
My goal is to gradually reduce overall risk over time, as total capitalization grows. I'd like to slowly allocate capital to a risk free (or very...
I downgrade from the full CME data entitlement to the CME minis entitlement last night, and I lose my CME data completely. The web entitlement...
Anyone else notice in the last two weeks or so, TWS all of a sudden goes nuts and plays catch up on its quotes, as if there's a bottleneck...
There appear to be a few logistical hurdles in trading both US and foreign futures intraday in a USD denominated IB universal account. I'm trying...
I currently trade futures only through IB. The 1099 looks real clean, a net profit figure and a seperate commission figure. No need to go...
I am watching @US, @TY and @FV in tradestation, and ZB, ZN and ZF in IB, expecting them to be the same, but they appear not to be. My months are...
why?
I've been scaling up at fixed dollar increments in the account. Currently this is a linear relationship, but i've been realising a desire to...
http://www.cme.com/trd/calhrs/thanksgiving_2003_holiday_calendar832.html Call me 'special' but I am having some trouble interpreting the...
Using tradestation's standard set of optimization parameters as building blocks, what is the best measure of linearity in an equity curve that...
frequently, in the middle of the night when i am totally inactive on my pc, i hear the HD chatting away incessantly for long periods of time,...
i'm so bored i'm about to start counting the leaves on the tree outside my window. i know this gets tossed around from time to time, but for gods...
After this morning's expensive little 20 minute CME outage on Tradestation 7.1, I can no longer spend $200+ a month for this product in good...
I've been trading the globex minis since April, and I'm realizing how vague my understanding is of the limit rules. The CME's rules for ES can be...
What is up with this power outage going all along the East Coast and into Canada? No wonder IB went down like a brick.
Does anybody know where and when the first futures exchange in the world was started? Also in the US? Was the CME or the CBOT first? Thanks
I am still in my first year as an non-professional, non mark to market, independent futures trader, and have not yet filed taxes as a trader. I...
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