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Sounds like the comment above is tongue in cheek but there was another person who was interested in putting all this DDE/ActiveX stuff to use. Basically, if you are happy with the TWS the way it is then there is no need for any of these programming tools that IB has provided. There are however...

So true.

Trading is not like any other business that I know of. More hard work doesn't necessarily equal more profits. Running a business doesn't require the same amount of emotional understanding and control that trading requires. Learning emotional control and self-mastery is much more difficult (and...

One other thought is that we all need to fully understand our trading edge. We aren't locals in the pit. We don't have to trade or make a market. One of the biggest advantages that off-floor traders have is that they don't have to trade, or in other words we can wait on the sidelines until the...

Lots of good insights given by someone (mbt3) who has obviously done a lot of personal development. I agree that the biggest obstacles in EMini trading are of our own making, specifically when we will the market to do such and such and it does as it pleases. We can only trade what is there...

I think we ought not to be fixated with % winners. Albeit 90% sounds a bit high. Maybe he is taking scratch trades out of the %? Anyway it is highly feasible for a scalper with a multi car strategy to average 60-80% winners because the profit target contracts are winners a very high % of the...

There is a lot of testosterone flowing on this thread and it all seems quite pointless. Ultimately we are trading the market, not competing in full-conctact one-on-one basketball or somesuch. The real competition is in maintaining emotional control. Someone once said that the difference between...

I made a simple test application to try out the new ActiveX OCX. It is very simple to get up and running and the documentation is straightforoward. I was hoping that not only would it allow more reliable communications but also FASTER transmission of data. When I compared quotes this morning I...

FYI: I received an email from IB that said that in fact the servers are online for the demo workstation weekends and nights. So out of my original list the items left are the "cancel all" hotkey and a "cleanscreen" or "compact mode" feature to get rid of everything but the quote windows on...

I don't have T&S but my computer clock is updated via atomic timesynch and I do show trades at your price at 11:34:39, and two trades at 11:34:42 as captured from the IB datafeed. Everyone buys the high at some point. At any rate according to my timestamps, there were trades at 1542.5 at...

I would like the following for the TWS: A hot key to cancel ALL orders. A "compact mode". I drag the toolbar icon away but since about 2 or 3 updates ago the unusable gray area at the top of the workstation has grown too much. My choice is a cleanscreen or compact feature where a hotkey...