Practice is a large part of my daily routine. Sometimes even while I have real trades going, i'm paper trading too. Every endeavor has a...
First a general observation. In every endeavor i've seen the same thing: people want to buy something to make them better at it. And it's the...
I trade pullbacks. I developed my method starting with a very nice little thing that Nqoos put on his website. Here's a link to it: The Floor...
Two reasons for running this journal: (1) To learn. There is a lot of trading talent running though these boards. For months I have been...
Finally I'm starting my trading journal. I have a lot to say before we start. I will be posting installments this week and will start trades in...
While paper trading is not the same as real trading (the emotions are different), you need to turn a profit on paper before you can do it with...
There are two issues: stop or stop-limit; then native and non-native. The plain stop order is a market order that gets sent when price triggers...
Remember that's how the rally started off the October 2002 lows-- 2 or 3 gaps up that went unfilled. It'll be interesting to see what happens...
THANK YOU for pointing out this AWESOME program. This thing checks to make sure TWS is running; if not, it runs TWS, logs you in, and enables...
Looks like a close above $8 would be my stop if I went short. I would wait for a pullback to $7.75-$7.50 before going short.
Since trading NQ/ES I have had one experience with the Globex crashing with an open position, and no experiences with TWS not excecuting a stop...
1- limit orders are also native 2- stop-limit orders are not essential, or even necessary, or even desireable for longer term trading, ES/NQ or...
For those who want something simpler than TWS, not more complicated, check out TSim+. It's free -- donate if you like Big buttons that say...
There's no way your CPU is maxed out from "several highly liquid stocks". Besides an anti-virus you'll also want to run Ad-Aware or SpyBot. I...
If you can program, you'll do better $$ wise if you spend a few bucks acquiring data in a file, then writing a program to do the backtest that...
Almost once I day TWS quits on me... silently. All of the sudden it's just gone. (The is not the auto logout feature, which I have set for...
The market depth shows the number of bids and asks 5 levels deep. You can't tell if each one represents a stop-limit or limit order.
Did you use any TA to initiate your silver position?
Get your market order in as soon as possible? I have an IRA with TD Waterhouse for long term stuff (I trade short term with IB). If I put a...
No such thing.
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