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    How I stopped making the same mistakes in 2010 and started to make more money

    Why ? Don't chase trades. Identify good quality trades - wait for them. The worst thing to do is to trade simply because you are getting bored or want more excitement. Is this what you mean by the strat being too slow ? Charlton
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    Help a newbie with automated trading API programming

    Ok - it looks like Anvil would be a likely bet as they have an APi listed on their site. http://www.assent.com/api.php Charlton
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    Help a newbie with automated trading API programming

    There's no point in reinventing the wheel and you will need to find a broker that has an API. For example Amibroker has a facility to receive a data stream from Interactive Brokers. Also IB has an API to enable it to receive order data generated externally...
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    Is the current Trade Planning and Trade Management a farce?

    An interesting thread - For me risk is at the heart of my business model, so I question your points about position size being a small percent for day traders and larger for swing traders. I admit that over a very short period risk might be greater as it may be more difficult to establish the...
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    5% - 10% profit per day trading

    Spanish I have been holding back to a certain extent, because of uncertainty. I trade US equities - never traded oil. I have not followed your stratgies in detail but I think you have surprised myself and others on T2W with your success. I think this is because: (a) you are focussing...
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    5% - 10% profit per day trading

    Happy Birthday Spanish http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=k4SLSlSmW74 Charlton
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    5% - 10% profit per day trading

    Well done Spanish - you are really working on your trading education, strategy and trading psychology development, which should bear fruit, particularly so in the longer term when some of this uncertainty ends and we get back to some sense of normality ................whenever that will be...
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    creating my own scanner which software to use?

    For setting up an analysis - follow this video http://www.amibroker.net/video/exploration.html Also look at their help text to: add a new symbol Amiquote - using manual mode, which has information on creating and importing ticker lists Importing from ASCII file and also search...
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    creating my own scanner which software to use?

    Amibroker takes an esignal feed. Now you might not want any more charting software, but their site contains a freely available formulae library and you might use it for ideas. Charlton
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