IB has a great site and a great daily paper. I study the Big Picture section to get a feel for the market and what it might do over the next week...
Well, if you are a little guy with under 2k, you can't trade futures with IB anymore . This may be a good thing, but for those that just wanted to...
interactivebrokers.com, but they only trade currency, metal, interest rate, and index futures (And the comin Single Stock Futures as well). Have a...
My point was that new traders focus almost soley on win/loss. It surely is important, and a good win loss will drive your profits. Certainly...
Unfortunately, I don't have any good recommendations, I just learned the hard way from personal experience. Have a look at my thread "Blown Out"...
My advice is to focus less on indicators, and focus heavily on profit/loss ratios and position sizing (If you plan to trade more than one contract...
And their realtime chat customer service is good. Calling them on the phone may take a while to get through. Can't beat the prices and I really...
The e-mini's are extremely liquid, and trade wonderfully fast on their electronic decks (Globex for S&P and Nasdaq e-minis, A/C/E for the dow...
May I ask, in analyzing your trades, what is your win/loss ratio, what is your profit/loss ratio, and what is your average position size (How much...
From my experience, most traders fail to understand the two critical ratios. Win/Loss and Profit/Loss. Most of us focus almost all our efforts on...
I was curious if any of the traders on this board have done an analysis of their win/loss ratios, and their profit/loss ratios, and would be...
I have, for your viewing pleasure/amusement, my trade log from the past 3 months. I have gone from 2000 to about $383.00. Aside from the...
I've been with IB for 4 months now, and have made 120 round trip trades with them, and I have no complaints. I've traded on the GLOBEX, A/C/E, and...
Not sure about the 25k to 1 mil, but I can show you how to turn 1 million into 25 thousand almost overnight :) PM me if you want to know how :p....
Dow 2 contracts tend to have wide spreads and no liquidity (But they are fine for trading on a 5 minute chart) The Dow 5 has decent spreads and...
If your trading the volumes of 100K + per month, your profits, in theory, should be such that having IB rebate some of your commissions would be...
I trade on an iMac at home, it's a G3-500mhz running Jaguar. The TWS from IB works flawlessly on it, and OS X hasn't crashed in over a year...
I notice that the CBOT doesn't make mention much, of the 2$ multiplier contract. However, I couldn't find and official notice that they were...
The market can take those dreams away from you. The market can and will do whatever it wants to. I wish you success in your trading ventures, but...
I'm really starting to love the idea of these reversal trades. The more I review my own losers, the more I see that if I had reversed, I'd have a...
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