Recent content by andiamo

For those of you that are using Ninja with either TT or Zen-Fire (or have in the past), what kind of network connection do you have? DSL? Cable? T1? Other? Also, for those that say that the TT feed is faster than Zen-Fire (or vice versa), how are you measuring this?

I would appreciate it if the ET community could provide some prop firm recommendations for a futures trader that has some experience. The firm does not have to strictly trade futures as I know that some firms are a bit of a mixed bag. I only care that the firm allow their traders to trade...

Yeah, $2600 is more in line with what I would have expected. Not sure what is going on. I will try again tomorrow and maybe IB will tell me something different. I have noticed that since I have upgraded my software a few days ago, some things just aren't working right...I might need to...

Okay, so for kicks I thought I would look at selling one (1) naked put on the spyders. I took a look at SPY and picked the 140 strike with a May 18 expiration. Before I go "all-in" by being short 1 put (yes folks, that is a one), I decided to use the check margin feature that IB provides...

Cool...thanks!

Stupid question but I have to ask... How do you bring up the calendar spreads in IB? What ticker symbol did you use? I can get the May crude market or the June crude market, but I don't know how to bring up the May/June spread. :confused:

Really? For IB? I guess I am a little surprised that your total roundtrip times (from order sent to order confirmation received) are under 200ms. I would have guessed much higher than that (say, on average, north of 300ms). Anyone else have times like this using IB as their broker?

After testing this out for a few days, I have noticed that market orders take a VERY long time to execute on the Paper Trader. I tried sending market orders for the Nasdaq futures on Globex and execution time averaged about 10 to 15 seconds! :confused: Markets orders should be executed...

Thanks for the replies! No slippage? What about partial fills? Part of what I would like to test involves market orders so slippage and partial fills are kind of important (and, most of the time, an unfortunate reality). Anyone tested market orders on the PaperTrader?

Has anyone executed the same trade (or the same type of trades/strategies) using both their paper and real accounts with IB? How close to the real market were your paper trading fills (eg., did the paper trader give you a good estimate of your slippage, etc.)? Were you able to paper trade...

ETers, Well, I have been trying to swing trade a little bit (daily charts, holding positions for a few days) and I thought I'd toss this out to the group to see what you think. I have a question for those who use fibonacci retracements, trendlines, and other forms of support/resistance...