Recent content by gms

electron, I had the same problem. Try this: Go into your TWS directory, there's a folder starts with D, in there delete "settings.xml". Then start up TWS, and it will give you the default window, which you can go reset by going into file > manage wprkspaces > pre-upgrade

I've been told that if you walk away from an entity, and that the entity is not conducting any business, no profit, that though you should technically dissolve the company, no one's really going to come after you, it not being worth any effort if there really hasn't been any activity and no...

More revenue from another enterprise, self-esteem, sense of goal accomplishment.

in addition to that, I would like to ask why it is that in testing two systems (for stocks, not futures), system A performs moderately well in a backtest, system B performs wonderfully, yet in forward testing system A performs very well and system B is horrible, even after accounting for...

Because some trade only a few hundred shares at a time. And regardless of the number of shares, most traders do not wish to be charged the hidden costs of "order flow" that web based brokers get per share, nor do most traders want the few seconds of delay in execution (and the browser based...

The 'wetting agents' may be Dihydrogen Monoxide http://www.dhmo.org/ :D

You would have excel perform an "if" function first to determine if the position has been exited. I'm thinking off the top of my head not ever having specifically written the function to do so. For example, if when a position is exited then the exit price is displayed in a certain cell, the if...

Reitberg wasn't.

Sorry, didn't take the negative sign in your post as a negative sign at that moment.

That looks like a credit to me. What did IB say when you called them?

Just as I called it in http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=472081#post472081. Who else can call it like that? Can you? You? YOU? Bring me your finest... ahhhhh, enuff already.

If I figured out an infallible trading system? What good would it do me if I didn't have my own highway lane.

For those of you that would like more information regarding bill's method, here's a couple of his recent informative posts from turtletradingsoftware: http://www.turtletradingsoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=772&highlight=...

What is this, trading 101? MM takes into account the nature of the strategy, i.e., if longer term trend trading, wider stops are going to be used, intraday scalping will use tighter stops. One may get you stopped out of CDCY, the other maybe not. Whether you're ultimately profitable with CDCY or...

Yeh... you could've also gotten on board CDCY a few days ago to ride the trend and gotten slammed today. Hindsight's great.