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Esignal gives a free trial. Delayed historical data isn't that expensive. While I like the idea to look at distributions, a major component of strategy development is understanding what you can practically do. If all you have is daily data, I assume you have hi/low data too? Look at longer...

You need more granular data. Most days will hit both up .3 and down .2. How do you know which is hit first?

Never done that model. Cme rules, you need to put up 250,000 and become a non equity member to get the tax treatment.

Regular income.

I literally look for none of that in a professional platform. How many professional traders do you believe use it? The last thing a professional would use is a free commission platform that is selling their order flow.

I'm probably only trading 50-100% more. My levels, take profit, stop, etc have increased 5-10 fold. P&L swings up and down about the same.

I don't ever think I have had this long a week. Since I started trading. Just crazy...

You sound completely unprepared. How many years did it take Nasdaq to reach '02 highs? IB isn't going to wait for a day.

What is low commission to you?

O= C. Almost by definition on intraday data. Daily is different. Not worth looking at. Back test on historical before worrying about real time.

All the revenue is from selling tests. Backed traders are more of an annoyance than anything else. Probably doing better with thin markets blowing people out.

What is the requirement for a professional grade platform? Seems like a statement that sounds good, but doesn't mean a darn thing.

WOW. Third week in a row! Another 100 handles!

Almost feels worse today. Single digit inside markets.

30 is pretty generous. Many inside book levels are single digits to teens. ATR was the metric you mentioned. Low in in Jan was ~24 for the 10 day. Up to 147 now.

If we take what you say as true and ADR is up 10 fold, we should still get 600 by that metric. Still a 80% reduction in size right? Still seems significant to me.

This really drives home how crazy it has gotten. 6000 within a handle of best bid/ask 4 years ago. ~132 last week. 98% reduction! https://www.wsj.com/articles/thin-liquidity-in-stock-futures-raises-risk-of-more-wild-market-moves-11583365788

I agree. The question still stands what that number really means. Is that your best year? Why is that the number/year you use?

What does 5 million in trades really mean? From a decade ago. I did 1200 equity index futures sides today. What would that mean with that metric? I really don't understand what you are bragging about.

Take a look at last 2 fridays. 20 minutes from close to close. Crazy face ripping rallys out of nowhere.