vitally important.. learn to do both.. they're not mirror images, don't treat them as such..
One note.. I did have a bracket work mid last week. I entered on a stop limit first thing in the morning, and then my bracket stop, which was...
I did say I'd post the resolution. Here it is via e-mail from IB. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dear Trader,...
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thanks for the feedback, cheeks. I'm a little suspect of IB's bracket orders, having just started using them. Still, there could be a dozen...
Anyone have a stop problem with IB on Friday? I'm not trying to bash IB: I've got no complaints with them so far. I was just looking to see...
I'm a swing trader who can't watch the market all day. I had stop orders in on two different NYSE stocks this afternoon that should have hit....
I did some pair testing exactly as you state above, but compiling the results proved worse than just writing an indicator to simulate the trading...
You can setup a hypothetical ticker SPREAD., but you can't "trade it" (i.e., system test) an indicator in TS6. It is possible to create the...
You cannot "take the other side" when system testing pairs in TradeStation (TS). TS will only let you buy/sell the primary data, data1. As it...
Yea, I figure IB will fix this item fairly soon. They've added a lot of new features (since I've been with them), and they eventually get things...
Place an IB limit order with bracket orders. Then go back and change the entry order to stop-limit and enter the stop price. A little hokey but...
Dell's not alone. My in-laws went down to the local Gateway store in Oct. They sold them a $1500 computer (w/o monitor) to check AOL e-mail and...
In response to RS7's question on how long to expect nowadays.. I started day trading stocks full-time in mid-2001 after 3 good years as an...
Thanks, Babak, for the excellent post. I believe this is the first time I've ever seen/heard someone give a specific example of a 'January effect'...
I've read through the Pairs trading thread over in Strategy Trading. That's likely where I came across the 'volume divergence' comment. I'd like...
I did several days worth of pairs testing using a stock and it's corresponding ETF. I stuck to the more liquid ETF's. I tested using stocks making...
First, Tradestation 6 doesn't have scanning capabilites. The pair would have to be in an open workspace, with an alert set. Practical for 50 pairs...
On their website, http://www.tradestation.com/, over on the left is a tag "Subscriptions available for non-brokerage clients". It starts about...
For a decent starter book you could try: "Technical Traders Guide to Computer Analysis of the Futures Market" by Le Beau, Lucas It's focus...
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