Did something different today. I took advantage of Allen Z and reality trader's kind offer of a free day in Allen's futures room. So I tagged...
No fills again today. May have to examine my envelope. Dodged a couple of troubles in UB and MMC. They opened fairly late and I scratched...
Got rid of the hotkeys today. Second day in a row, I hit the hot key and had the wrong stock screen active. Cost me -.07 in slippage in...
Had an interesting open. I generally use one set of windows to enter orders, and another set to work them after the open. The entry layout has no...
Tampa, You can export IB executions to a "something" delimited format, then copy this into an Excel spreadsheet. Do a "text to columns"...
No fills.. guess my envelopes were too wide today.
The charts.. ?? mostly I haven't had anything especially needing a chart to illustrate. The times in my spreadsheets are Chicago time. Just...
Old Trader, I have cut and saved you post as yet another nugget I can benefit from. There have been several lately. Now all I (and Tampa,...
Another not for profit endeavor. On the good side, I stuck with my trades til it was time to leave. Even held the second NVLS trade...
Wed Oct 2. Did ok today. Big news was, I was somewhat calm. Bad news, I was taking quick profits again. I left considerable money on the...
Blah morning... could have been worse. FRE save me today. Everything else was RED. FRE long +.30 BSX long -.15 BP short -.03...
Money talks ( to the SEC and politicos) all else walks. The thieves have the money, the politicos want the money, what else is there to say.
How are we doing on the bad tick problem Chuck? I still haven't heard anyone say it has been fixed. A couple of folks were suggesting...
Interesting, I had a bad time with BAC and JNJ. Got rid of them early enough to avoid huge damage.
Was there news out on banks today? I didn't see any on briefing. Am I blind. If you all saw news on banks (bad) or major drug mfg (good),...
Had to copy JEM's piece and save it. I see something of myself there. Maybe I have been so flighty for the same reason, that is, I am not...
Man.. you guys want ALL don's secrets.. :p Did well on opening orders today. 3 Longs, 1 short. Longs: BAC -.18 and darn good...
Profitseer, I had to copy out your paragraph on fear and save it. You probably just described 75% of my trading. I am working on that...
I haven't been doing much outside of opening orders. I am still puzzling about trying to figure out how to trade without the QQQ and SPY. I...
Again sort of a nothing opening for me. 2 Shorts, both major oil companies. RD +.11, gave it some time and gave a little back. BP -.06,...
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