Investor/RT has the ability to setup the pair/spread as a custom symbol for addition into a quote window. It also does a nice job charting them....
I haven't been day trading for a bit, mostly swing trading, but I found daily and weekly circuit breakers in my trading to be helpful. I quit if I...
I know you can do the SPX or OEX put in an IB IRA. I'm long a put in an IB IRA now and it's not offsetting anything (got stopped out of longs)....
Why not short SPY, QQQ, or DIA? Am I missing something here? If you want increased leverage, similar to the Rydex and Profund products, move to...
Seems to be a lot of quote pblms going around. I showed the S&P at 26 yesterday at one point. Pretty much screws up your analysis unless you're...
eSignal will do spreads, ratio or differential, intraday or eod. It's supposed to be able to plot spreads as candles as well shortly, something...
First one I read was Jobman's. I thought it was good for a start....
I've used a similar filter for swing-trading stocks. I take the average range (just high - low) over X days (I've used 20 days) and divide that...
You're doing much better with English than I would do in your native language.
Bung, if your system is intraday and uses stops be warned that the specialists will pick them off at their earliest opportunity, usually during...
Thanks, hardrock. I'm always misquoting somebody. I get the idea right, but I forget the exact phrase. Damn, I hate getting old (not a misquote...
The old saying comes to mind: "The market can remain wrong longer then you can remain solvent" I forget the source. I've been net long in...
After I replied I checked the theoretical returns for April. They were very poor (negative) and dropped the overall strategy to 2.3% per month....
I have about a year's experience with Neovest's First Alert product, the so-called 'fat' client where the data was maintained on a local server or...
I did some similar work on a market neutral strategy, both as a small percentage of account and on paper for larger view. I took some positions...
VIX maybe about to break up thru the downtrend line. It's formed a bit of a divergence on this latest low. It's at .66 ratio to its 200 dma (up...
I use stop-limts with bracket orders to enter my swing trades all the time. For example, I want to buy RIG if it breaks above 20.5, with my...
I froze for a minute or two right after the open. Exited and came back in - all was fine.
The OCA orders and such work fine on the S&P E-mini, although some order types are not native to Globex (held at IB I think until conditions hit -...
Intraday or Daily? Intraday is limited to 60 days still.
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