Search results

This may not be applicable to your scalping method since I'm sure you're stops are very tight, but I wondered if you have any comment about the following observation. I've been trading DAX for about 6 months now, don't scalp but have noticed some interesting behaviour in regards to price action...

bahhh!!! I'm failing as a trader and it's all because of IB :))) try running another platform next to TWS, I run TWS and Jtrader simultaneously and notice that both platforms take occasional glitches, many times independent of each other but I cannot honestly say that tws is any worse than my...

Once I was whining about a bad fill or some such to a trader friend of mine who at the time had made it over the "hump" while I was still struggling. He made a comment that was very simple yet stuck with me as one of the keys to finally becoming profitable - "take responsibility for your...

Makes sense. I think I interpreted that your last comment about the "big fucking mouths" was directed at me since I was the only one who had replied to your editorial of Johns comment about ES being a shitty market to trade. Beleive me I have no emotional attachment to ES and if it wasn't paying...

You're right the methodology is somewhat different, at least on a slower scale than dax although personally I've been having better luck trading retracements on dax than I have with breakouts but everyone has their own game plan. One thing that's different for me with ES is I have many trades...

Lighten up dude. For one thing I did not reference my own trading, simply stated that shitty is dependent upon the ability of the trader. But.. I post my trades daily in a live chat room. REALTIME no end of day posting gif files of statements that can be edited by a 13 year old.. I'm doubt...

IB doesn't charge extra to use Ninjatrader for futures. Right now the use of Ninjatrader is the only thing that keeps most of my volume going thru IB. Eventually I hope there will be an application that supports the Patsystems api. When that happens I'd most likely direct most of my volume to...

Sounds like you just don't know how to trade ES. ES is crappy only to those who cannot figure out how to prosper there, just as it is with DAX. Believe me there are plenty folks making money in ES.

Waggie.. if you're still following this.. your mailbox is full. I couldn't reply to your pm.

fwiw I've been using AF for about 6 months now with the same setup being described here, clearing thru ghco with jtrader and have no complaints.

I followed the initial thread closely and am did learn from it but I don't think the method as originally described works so well for the dax as a primary method of generating your signals. It seems that the dax can be very jumpy rather than breaking out thru the extreme penetrations. I also...

I've used both the java and standalone version. I will only use the standalone version. The java version seemed to me to be much slower. I also had some issues with the java version where it would just hang up, after troubleshooting for some time with the broker they finally gave me the...

Thanks Ramora. As I said I had done a google search and returned about 10 pages of stuff, hard to pick from that. I was looking for something easy to put up and use with minimal requirements from the hosting perspective. Maybe even something I could put up on my own server without having to get...

Can one of you web designer type guy/gals give me some advice here? Say I wanted to create a private web based forum, similar to whatever drives ET but on a small scale. Something that I could post notes, attach files etc. Main goal would be to organize and manage a series of threads, say an...

I reported the same bugs for over a year. finally gave up and switched to neoticker.

Personally I start to get a bit jumpy when my overall drawdown reaches about 20%. Like most of the advice you're getting here when I started trading eurex I began with estx50, worked that up to about 6 lot and then went to 2 lot DAX and then worked up from there as I became profitable, that said...

I agree.. DAX is tempting because it makes some really nice moves but it's not so easy in real time, I believe it's very dangerous to be starting out on the DAX. You've really got to have a good trading plan and be willing to accept some volatility before it moves in your direction. If you're...

I'm not defending IB here but there were other clearing firms who also had issues with Eurex this morning. Both of my platforms went down this morning within about 5 minutes of each other and were down about the same length of time.

patsystems is Jtrader. IB has had it's problems recently(I was also effected ~4:30 am this morning East coast) and my backup broker via Jtrader was stable I've been thru periods where IB was stable and my jtrader platform has been flakey. I think it's the nature of the business. As long as one...

Are there any plans to enhance the alert capabilities? IMO the alerts are sorta archaic. There are a couple things I have an issue with. 1) can only asssociate a single sound with any particular symbol. It would be nice to have one sound for the high and a different one for the lo. Right now...