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hey axe, what's up man I don't know, I'm a lot happier poor and learning to trade than I was rich and entombed in an investment bank. is it work if you're having fun? I've known people who were trapped by their money too. Maybe if I had 5 million in my lap, I could fund my friends'...

I would take extreme delight in being exactly who I am now. (and maybe take a few more trips abroad)

I'm thinking about sitting out 9:30-10 on ES

Electric Savant, What a gift to the original poster. You're generous dude. One question, I'm trading ES with IB, and want to set up a backup broker, especially after reading the clause in their agreements about having alternative trading arrangements. Is it possible to close an ES...

One thing that I didn't see mentioned here are stops. I believe it is crucial to decide on a stop that suits your strategy and adhere to it like glue. My strategy on ES wouldn't work without the stops.

Everybody, Thanks so much for sharing. I think all of your ideas are right on the mark. I see your points about how a 1 point average per day, or even week is an awesome profit. That is heartening information. For some reason, while trading, I picture old men smoking cigars and raking...

I have just started trading ES, and would like to know how many points (per contract) most of us expect to make in a day, regardless of style or strategy. If you trade a longer timeframe, I guess I'm wondering what you're making, averaged per day. This is not intended to be a "how much can you...

I'm definitely not an expert. I was primarily supporting, networking and rolling out these applications, not using them. Also, most of them were proprietary and/or institutional syndicated platforms like Tradeweb or Brokertec, or broker-dealer related. In other cases, I know the name and...

I supported Aspen for about a year and a half before leaving that job almost a year ago. It would not surprise me if they have changed their interface to windows style in the interim. It also wouldn't surprise me if they have a retail version of the software that runs much better. Most of...

I used to support this product for several traders. From the support side, this was a shabby product, very unstable. Aspen's staff, while nice, were largely ineffective. Support nightmare. Maybe the retail version is better. Also, the non-windows style interface requires you to learn...

My first charting resources were yahoo and lycos livecharts (both free). Lycos will let you experiment with different parameter values on the indicators you mentioned plus many more. The data is delayed, but if you're trading an ETF like qqq, spy or dia, the index data is realtime...

I'm working on this too. Been smoking for 8 years, .5-1 pack a day. Thanks for the encouragement folks. I'm especially concerned, because smoking helps me ventilate stress while trading. Since I've been trading less than a year, I know I need to kick this dependency before it becomes...

I strongly agree with the comments of others on this post, ET is probably the most valuable online resource/community I have ever participated in. As a relatively new member and trader, ET has not only provided psychological support, but vastly enhanced my technical understanding, and allowed...

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I have wondered this too. The 70's and early 80's must have been a playground for people with access to computers (and time to operate on punchcards or an apple II).

I see what you're getting at. If you're concerned about tarnishing your gpa, don't take a programming class. The level of programming required to develop systems in TS or Wealth-Lab is a low one. I would recommend picking up a "Learn VBA in 21 days" or "Learn Pascal in 21 days" book and...

Just my 2 cents to save you some potential losses, I've spent a good amount of time researching this issue. I've backtested many many systems in TS for a few months, and found many high trade frequency systems that looked amazing in backtesting. In every case so far, adding realistic...

my first impression was dissapointment. i found it much harder to locate the info i was looking for. in general, it's much more logical and straight forward to present lists of information vertically, not horizontally. miss the old site very much (but as a new IB user, service has been...

Discipline, that cracks me up... I've only been trading for a few months, but trading has just recently entered my dreams on a nightly basis. I wake up with strange abstractions of strategies in mind, but haven't yet been able to get them on paper before they're gone. I would love to...