Recent content by whenwood

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Saw you post it is about a month old don't know if your still open.

Poor babies. Don't blame your lack of success on black boxes.

LOL of course if you don't place the limit order but write it down instead you won't get stopped out. The position will also run past your stop and you will lose more than you bargained for. If you getting stopped out too quick it's a risk management problem not an order problem. Your...

Ed I understand you are a paying sponsor so it gives you the right, but it is SOOOOO annoying to see you interject your product into every discussion. We get it, you have a nice auto-trading platform. Lots of advantages over manual trading. If someone wants to find out more about your...

If you trade 5% volume of a stock for the day you are definetly going to start affecting it signifigantly. Even one percent. Small size would be a few ES futures contracts, or a few hundred shares of AAPL. For apple that would be something like .00001 percent of daily volume. But as you...

Actually your system has little or no affect on market prices unless you are trading very big size relative to the volume.

There is no real way to protect a trading system. It doesn't matter if you sign an NDA. If you show someone a system that produces a consistent 100% per year they will just trade it in the account of their brother/uncle/cousin/friend and you will never now about it, while showing you the...

Anyone saying you can test against 2 weeks of data, pick the top performer, and expect that behavior to continue is being dishonest or has never attempted it. (Alright there is a small chance you MIGHT discover a "magic system" this way, but don't count on it.) Getting backtest results to...

Oh come now Nash. Surely you know the best reason to hold a trading competition is to copy the best performing systems.

Go back to previous version. These little issues with latest release of API are usually resolved later on. Save yourself a lot of time and frustration.

Crusher you dumb fool how do you know his IDE is out of date when you are not at his computer? Everyone ALWAYS has problems with the newest release of the TWS API regardless of IDE. BTW you brilliant solutions makes no since and is impossible. Here is an idea, why don't you learn to talk...

That must be a common problem I noticed it to. Had to uninstall API AND TWS, reinstall TWS and then reinstall previous API. The API downgrade does not work if you use it you will still get the same error message.

The terminology used when enter the fields for IB's stock. osc. are completely different from the indicator as described in the book A to Z. Also, what is displayed on the IB chart is different from the parameters entered. For example, IB chart displays %K and %D. However there is no...