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Frosty, glad to see you back. Looking forward to this thread. Good luck, make the rest of us algo traders get jealous with these results ;)

Terrible trading week (Down almost 8k). Started out ok on Monday, lost Monday's gains on Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday/Friday have been disastrous for my trading systems. If I look at my systems versus the S&P 500 this week I underperformed by almost 22k. This has been the biggest gap since...

Another good trading week (up 6k8). Definitely trading in the zone right now. I get so lucky it's not even funny, my systems close before the market crashes, they open at a decent time. I should increase leverage and ride it as long as it works. All systems firing on all cylinders, except S2...

Not to praise their features but I have a thinkorswim and a IB account. I love TOS (support and platform) but I also love IB for their API and their commission structure. I'd be in a world of hurt if either broker decides to terminate my account

The obvious choice is interactive brokers. Decent API connection, 70 cents per contract (1$ minimum) a little less if you trade larger lots and enough of them OptionsXPress is another choice (web service api i think), not sure about their commission structure.

Great trading week (Up 5k1). Eliminated last weeks losses. This week had the strongest start I've ever experienced. Monday/Tuesday gained over 10k. Then Wednesday I pretty much gave most of that money back. Thursday was a scratch day and Friday locked the week in. I would have expected a...

No post today. Sitting @ the airport in London Heathrow and won't get back home until late tonight. Right now /ES S&P 500 E mini futures are up about 13 points, I think as long as they close above 10 I'll have a good week, if they drop and close below it'll be tough. Have a good expiration Friday!!

I second that statement completely. I've been trading automated for several years and just Friday's last trading hour caused me a lot of stress watching a profitable week turn into a losing one and killing the last three profitable weeks as well (more here)...

Terrible trading week (Down 5k). Lost the entire week in the last hour on Friday's trading. Today was full of ups and downs, an hour before closing I was down about 800 bucks, at closing I managed to add another loss of 5200 and closed down over 6 grand. The daily results may cause vomiting...

What's your concern with collective2? Is it that they don't support spreads or mid price fills?

Good trading week (up 1k). Saved by the bell is all I can say. Today's P&L had a 3k2 range, I opened up -1k5, my systems came back big time as the market recovered and I was up 1k7 and then I closed about breakeven. I'm glad to see some volatility back in this market, although I didn't fully...

Good trading week (up 3k). I was at home all week and this was well deserved ;) my systems needed a little bit of tuning this week. Monday and Friday were two red days (-1k per day), the rest of the week worked well though. Overall I'm very happy with my performance so far this year, I'm...

Here's a quick update. Had two black out weeks. Internet in Italy was like hitting pocket aces at the poker table. It sometimes showed up but not for very long. Had a great time in Sardinia though. This week wasn't much better either. Had tons of work in London and could barely start my...

Killer trading week (up 10k). Too bad I missed 5 digits by one dollar but this has been my best trading week this year so far. Still enjoying the result right now (with a nice Manhatten). Every strategy killed it, except S81. However S81 left 6 grand on the table when I entered a trade highly...

nice week neke, congrats !!!!

Terrible trading week (down 7k). Lost on all fronts. Market kept raising and I lost every day but Monday. Very frustrated, just when I had a really great run :( I was happy that pokerstar finally let me cash out my poker money (after the DOJ/FBI thing) and I bought a nitro remote control...

Good trading week (up 3k). Had ten green days in a row but on Wednesday my run came to an end. Made up for my losses on Thursday and finished the week strong. S2 has four trades going and the earnings season is still young. I'm throttling back my S21 strategy because this low volatility...

Very strong trading week (up 9k7). Stressful @ work but my trading systems fired on all cylinders. Very good week while the S&P 500 lost some money. I'm still on the road getting home tomorrow evening. Here's a quick recap. The low volatility helped S10, 11 and 21 (especially 21). S21 is trading...

Great Job !!!!!

Good trading week (up 1k6), terrible work week (very little sleep and several days where I had to work till 2am). Anyway, good news first ;) Market lost, I made money and that even though volatility is basically non existent. I finished listen to the “The Quants” audio book. Interesting...