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You're an idiot cscott. Like they say "tomorrow I could be polite, but you'll still be an idiot." Here's a win-win: if you and your halfwit friends stop posting I won't need the extended language skills I use to point out the breadth of your failings.

LOL. You really are simple aren't you. Not only don't you understand the internet; electronic trading; markets; etc etc ... you don't even understand boards like ET. Of course I'm steve :) cscott, you claim to be a trader of stocks, futures, and (now) currencies. What absolute bullshit...

Accurate Data - Include all prices in the real time data stream or include high/low of the period in the sample. This is the real thing ... most of the rest of it is fluff.

This thread is what you get when you have people who don't understand markets trading. In a market you get the price the other participant is willing to offer you - you have now had your lesson cscott. :D Cscott, you should go to Oanda. Have a lot more fun.

Seems that there are a new generation here once again. I note that ripley made the second post ... which is interesting given his current theme :)

Bundlemaker, Thanks for this post. I hunted the site down at the end of July when the thread was resurrected and found two of his books in our Library system. I used "Pain Free at your PC" which pretty well describes what we do and what I was originally doing when I developed back pain 15...

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stock, Can you try maximizing then minimizing tws a few seconds later and let us know what affect it has on tws size?

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Stock, Cdn, Try doing what I do. Observe memory use to see how it affects your machine. I normally run TWS minimized with Sierrachart and ZLT accessing it. It will grow hugely if I let it. To prevent it I restore it (to show it), wait a couple of seconds, and minimize it. This...

Assuming you were objecting the negative sum game comment then it was correct. The sum is Winner + Loser for zero sum here but the Exchange + Broker also take money out so the sum is negative. So if you have a winning trader and a losing trader then one of them needs a job as well to pay the...

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IB, acknowledging that I'd still like a skinnier TWS, I still think that including all the highs and lows (without reducing the timeliness of the data feed) is more important. Is anyone who can address this issue back from holiday yet? Perhaps someone came home early when the battery in...

Volume bars vs Tick bars is a choice that you'll need to make depending on what you trade. I think one element is the importance of big trades and the nature of the participants in your market. Sometimes volume gives a better read, sometimes tick (better for hsi for example). Its well worth...

The "haven't read what went before" was more rhetorical device than a fact. But I do agree with you :) But one thing this thread bought me was the realization that a very strong argument against psyching yourself is the "don't doctor/legally represent yourself" and the thought that psyching...

Better still try Sierra Chart with IB. It has indicators of indicators standard but: - you can use the worksheet to build excel like functions of indicators - you can write dlls if you like with c++ or use something thats already there. Both of the latter can be very very complex if you...

You give two examples of "if you rationally think" and then one of "if one feels." I think your freudian slip is showing. I just watched a Penn and Teller Bullshit series show on Self Improvement and its noticable that most of the sad folk they showed did it because they too went for "if one...

But if the question is: "I want to be a trader, should I study psych?" then I think the answer is different. I don't think psychology is useless but is it the right thing for a trader to study? When it comes to analysising the markets the psych side of it isnt really very hard (I've read all...

Yes elder's original book "trading for a living" would be a good start. Remember that multiple timeframe trading is essentially about finding the trend in a higher timeframe and then joining it in a lower timeframe to improve your chance of success. The recommendation to read the posts on...

Although you're about to get a bunch of replies you need to provide extra info like tick/volume/time/range and what broker and what indicators etc etc etc As a futures daytrader with ib as my broker who likes a lot of charting options I find Sierra Chart to be very good. But you might need...