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Trade part time while working at intel. Your aim should be to make 300-400K just from your trading account before you become full time. It appears you have 10K now, add some capital over time to make it 50K and then don't add anything and try to achieve the 300K goal. Also managing 300K is very...

I wanted to know how are the orders queued at a given price on globex. Is it by time stamp or size. Is it first in first out.

I am surprised he has not posted at all. I just hope he is doing alright and did not get into some physical harm. I have met him and he is a real nice guy.

Good article http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/031231/sb200312313576_1.html

You are being very pessimistic. Most likely there will be a lowering of the standard of living for a big portion of the middle class due to higher inflation or loss of jobs. But it probably won't be that bad as you are predicting. I think we are just reverting to the mean. Over the last 10...

what was the average number of contracts you were trading today. In general what do you think is the largest size with which one can pretty easily just go in and out of the NQ.

All this academic stuff is based on one basic assumption which is not true - "that all market participants are equal" In a simple game of dice this assumption is true but not for most things in life. SAT scores also have normal probability distribution but you cannot say the person who...

I would highly recommend High Probability trading by Marcel Link. It gives a very good general picture of the different aspects of trading. I think it is very good for beginners and intermediate level traders.

what i meant was, that I was at 1379, changed it to 1381 and then decided to go back to 1379 and I probably did not hit the Transmit button all the while in my mind thinking that I am back at 1379. And since I did not have the order history I wasn't sure what happened when it did get...

IB customer service told me that, they see I had the 1379 stop but I changed the order to 1381 at 14:08 and it got executed at 14:11 I may have changed it to 1381 by mistake or for momentarily all the while thinking that 1379 was my stop. I cannot argue with that. I just wasn't sure how that...

I am looking at before 14:11:33 Central Time, because IBs system tells me that execution time and I do not see anything below 1381, 1 minute before that time

since I did not have time and sales data that time, I could not verify whether it really hit. Since I am not full time trader I had to come home and look into this matter. I looked at the time and sales data from e-signal at home. but now ib is closed, so i have sent them an e-mail and...

I am in central standard time.

Has anyone had problems with a stop order with IB. Today afternoon at around 1:30pm I had a stop order to sell 5 NQ at 1379. At 2:11pm I knew I still had the position, for 30 seconds I looked at some other window and when I came back I saw the order got executed at 1381.5, I was pretty...

This is a question for traders who have been trading full time for many years. Does trading get boring after some time and start feeling like a regular 8-5 job. Do you guys start wishing I was doing something else. Do you guys also don't look forward to mondays like most people with...

I am running 3 monitors using a ATI 7500 AGP and ATI 7500 PCI on a windows xp computer. No problems at all.

Thanks for the feedback. I guess I need to increase mine to 1G also.

dbtrader I have the same problems as you. When I have multiple IB pages, I see everything in the morning getting slow on my computer. Have you seen any improvement after increasing your memmory or what doing what def has suggested. I don't think it is due to memmory because I have...