Recent content by jmeyer

Nitro, All info is available from Striker's site where they post results from actual trades. My own records are not as nicely organized.

I bought R-Mesa 5 from John Ehlers last fall. This is a mechanical trading system for the full S&P contract. I based the decision on the work that Ehlers has done over the years published in the popular trading press and the record from Futures Truth magazine. The system is traded for me through...

I downloaded the software. It would be very useful if the screen could be simplified to one's own needs with larger trade buttons; check out LiveFeed.

how is the paper trading feature set up?

The number of points on average is controlled by the number of contracts per trade including scaling in and out. Check out eminidaytrading.com. You trade with them in real-time and their full track record is posted on their website.

try e-signal's own charting software using the "Advanced Chart" type. This is very easy to use, stable and provides great scaling features like CQG and Q-Charts have.

I used QCharts until just after Lycos took over. Problems were not too bad before Lycos but after QCharts was not functional really. And this was with DSL service. Maybe they fixed it by now. I'd like to know. I switched to E-Signal and there are no problems except for rare lapses for a few...

your trades will be executed with IB data anyway. I found that IB data and e-signal data may vary throughout the day with one leading or following the other but that differences were not a problem.

Matt, I'm using e-signal with GET. But order placement timing is with IB since second by second data varies with e-signal data and trades are made with the spread numbers from IB. There is no slippage since the trades are instantaneous through Island. JM

try trading QQQ, the Nasdaq 100 tracker. There is no uptick rule to short. I trade with IB through Island with 1 cent per share. Trades are instantaneous long or short. you can limit risk with small lots until you're OK with your trading results rather than E-Minis one contract of which has...

With IB long positions are defaulted to the ask and shorts or sells to the bid; yet Island and I assume INCA will allow the opposite; any help explaining this much appreciated. Will other direct access brokers allow it?? Jmeyer

Anyone trading QQQ in the first hour successfully? Very volatile time but movements look like they would provide opportunity(using one minute charts with e-signal feed to Advanced GET).