I believe you will have to write the whole interface. One of their reps sent me some FIX specifications (confidential stuff, so I won't publish...
From what I remember, IB's emini stops don't work afterhours, the reason being the market is thin enough to be easily manipulated. But check...
Turok, thanks for sharing your experience. I am not in the business long enough (1.5 years of active trading) and already have done research on...
I think the $60 mytrack charges includes data fee, as the SDK option is only $25/month, and there is no volume requirement. If this makes...
This is really uncool. Of course eventually I will let the robot trade 10-20 contracts at a time, and I certainly have the funds to do it NOW, but...
shouldn't compare point for point between stock and emini trading... the underlying $$ value is a more reasonable comparison in regards to...
usually no slippage. if it's at a significant support/resistence level everybody in the world is looking at, then you may slip 1-2 points. I am...
Any news about emini broker with API? Won't be able to meet the $2400 commission minimum at IB at this moment, plus I will need a lot of help...
The only advantage in trading stocks is you can do a little top-down analysis. That is all.. and for the NYSE players, there are more...
Only 1 monitor here for intraday play... follow only a handful of NAZ stocks, and usually just watch the COMPX 5min chart, and keep the...
true about the energy sector.
candle, what kind of size are you playing to pull $2k daily? Thanks.
It's a trading style thing. In zero sum game, the dough you lost went into somebody's pocket. The summer can discourage momentum players...
candletrader, do you trade NYSE or NAZ, intraday or swing? Thanks.
yeah, I live in US east coast, so wonna concentrate on the YEN, which IB doesn't have. been looking at two ECN style spot forex brokers,...
agree with jmcgraw about the position sizing thing... should have thought about this. been intraday for too long and kinda fixed to the mentality...
shortie shortie, pants on fire :P
$0.6 stop on a naz flyer like MERQ, is a little bit eh..... too tight ? (for swing trading)
Please stop throwing BS around.
traderRX, there is a saying "If you are not humble, you are not in the business long enough". I have traded fast naz babes for more than a year...
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