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The interesting thing about this story was the ability to build up followed by the collapse. OP, why do you think you collapsed? Why were you able to build the money in the first place? What was the difference? Could you operate in one mode and avoid slipping into the other?

Douglas isn't a shrink. He's a guy who was a broker, and trader, who fucked up. In the process he did a good job of identifying the way fear screws up traders. Not being at all scientific he does a poorer job of identifying how one should fix the issues.

If you like that then check out autohotkey as well. They're great.

FWIW ... all my orders are going thru fine. Latest version of TWS and running on java 1.6 again.

Tick by tick means that each time there is a transaction then a packet is sent to you containing price and volume for the tick. This is good for tick charts. The downside is that during fast markets the data provider needs lots of bandwidth or the charts don't keep up with the market (all...

He said: "If its important to you please vote" Stop moaning. Its just boring.

and ultimately painful as the learning phase occurs.

Specifically trading the HSI futures KS.

A very long time ago I changed it to LAST because I wasn't sure what default might be today (or tomorrow when it might be different) and I'd decided that if a tick was detected past my stop I wanted OUT ... NOW!! Change it to last. Given I don't have the problem, default may require more...

What java version did u use under 2000?

Interesting. In thousands of stop limits and stops I have virtually NEVER had this happen to me. IB and TWS. What are your order settings. I am set to LAST for stop, limit and stoplimit orders. Also is your platform definitely getting to them to TWS ahead of time (I think u covered...

I don't recall more than one other incident where I'm sure it moved 50 points at once and that was a breakout into clear air. If you're on the side of the current thrust you generally only see a few points and even when the spread opens up around the point where your stop lies it frequently...

I disagree sorry scarletfire. The move this morning was unusual. 1. Big moves are usually breakouts from support or resistance and 20 pts without a tick would be large even in that situation. 2. This move was a reversal back into the direction of the normal intraday trend. Technically...

I always roll to the new contract on the morning of the last trading day. I have done this because that is the day when the volume becomes highest in the new contract. The gap observation is often true on big gap days. It is not always true. It is not true on small gap days. I've never...

Well classified Bearbelly ... what a poorly written OP. Its not the losses that they complain about its the sheer waste of the english language. LOL. And then the OP calls his detractors newbies because they show such good taste. Recognizing what's a waste of time might well be the holy...

Days with a big gap sometimes drop back and settle into a trend. Todays gap was huge and the resulting "ringing" in the market left little opportunity to profit from anything other than scalps. I don't think we'll see too many 680 point gaps (thank heavens) so I wouldn't adjust your systems :)

And I wouldn't go long the us indexes because of the HSI -- watch the Nikkei for that sort of guidance. <img src="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=1466464">

That thread was actually talking about the Shanghai index not the Hong Kong index. I pasted a pic of HSI in that thread. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=94199

Scotty for dickhead of the weekend award. Competing hard with his hill billy cousin cscott for ET 2007 Darwin Award.

The markets will correct when they correct. And probably not for a reason that most would predict - someone will be lucky enough to have predicted it and will be a guru for a day.