Recent content by John Bowles

Interactive Brokers seems to be a little slow at ticket response this week. I use to get a TWS bulletin notice in red but it stopped even though I have not changed my setup. Is anyone else having this problem?

Big one. What the hay! Lots of great advice being given here. There is are underlying components to most of it (underlying patterns or abstractions). Regarding the foods the underlying component is to look for ones that are healthy and especially the ones that increase serotonin levels...

Trading day is done for me. Anyway, graduated descensitization is a technique where you get yourself very relaxed then pull up the image of what scares you. Apparently studies have shown that it is impossible to be frightened when you are extremely relaxed. So I think what happens here if you do...

Yah, it seems okay for me. My MC aborted but I started it immediately and the 1 bar of backfill went real fast. All is well here. In the morning getting 2 or 3 days of backfill took a while but I had breakfast at that time so I don't care.

In a rush here. Quick post. The last post is correct. You have to get in to the situation and do it. Technically this is called "invivo". This is because the fear is more than the mind but a body habit too (adrenalin, etc). You are retraining the automic nerve system. However the mind has to...

Hi, If the books on self talk written for trading are not good enough try the web site which is the web site for the brilliant Psycholgists who first developed cognitive therapy back in 1955. Albert Ellis. Beck was the second guy and he came 5 years later and didn't fully get it right and...

Hi Saliva, I think they have fixed the problem. They gave me a call on Sunday and I think they put in some more powerful servers from a new vendor. The problems I mentioned were Friday when the problem as at its worst (server overload). I have a theory that the Montreal SXFZ08 may have been...

Thanks, Jack. I have tightened up my backup of the data as a result of this. I now store the three MUltiCharts data files for each day in a set of zip archive files named MC_Data_01, MC_Data_02, etc to MC_Date_31, for each day of the month. This way I can go back probably more than I will...

Maybe I don't understand this quote. I tried resetting my MultiCharts database and opening my workspaces to get the backfill for the day after trading hours (thursday night) and It sat there until about 9pm when I shut it down. Then I tried again at 3am Friday morning and got the backfill but it...

All threads regarding these TWS flat bars should not really have existed. I use to get regular bulletins on TWS then after one of the releases I realized they are not there any more. Traders should be immediately notified of an issue like this via the TWS bulletin and very regularly updated on...

To pressure them, if you are comparing other brokers create a spread sheet with the comparison and post it here and ask others to contribute. Make sure they know you are doing this. I can't because I have a lot programmed around IB.

Convince IB! As always the pocket book. I sent them an email this morning mentioning that MultiCharts has other brokers they are working on to include as feeds for their software. I think you have to send these emails as high up as you can past the IT department. I chose customer service. Make...

So another person on the MC forum who uses IB says they are having problems with YM backfill which is also Globex. Their ESZ8 is also locked. So if Globex (ES, NQ and YM) can't backfill properly from IB yet Montreal can then the IB to Globex connection seems confirmed.

Thanks Tums. That is a good idea except my using the recalculate command causes MC to abort some times as much as once a day. I downloaded "MC 3.1 final" today but am not confident this problem is fixed. Regarding waiting for live data to build up enough chart, I would have to wait a while...