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Hi there, Experimenting trading NQ on IB still... Today, as a trade hit my mental stop, I placed an order to Sell at Market...and my trade went through 5 minutes and 6 points against me later!! Are these occurrences normal? What can I do about it? I thought market orders are pretty fast...

Pabst, Thanks for your comment. You are correct, my account finally settled in the evening. Now everything matches up. Best wishes.

Checked everything several times... I'll just wait until tonight for the offical account summary to solve the mystery I guess. Thanks for your patience!! Happy Trading. :)

Hi Puffy, Thanks for answering. :) Well, that doesn't make sense either, because my main account P&L should be lower than the TWS P&L, if commission is taken out. (This is in response to your deleted post ) It's almost as if I got a better price somewhere in my trades, and it's not in...

Nope... No open positions. :) Still trying to figure out why my main layout P&L says $260 and my Account Balance (defnitely up to date) says Futures P&L $315... I've double checked my exported trades twice. It matches up with the $260 figure. Maybe they gave me some extra $ for being a...

Thanks for your answer. :) Does IB sometimes report some commissions "late"? I'm just trying to find out why my account balance seems to be missing half-a-trip of commission. Hmm.. Actually, now that I'm looking at it even closer, I'm realizing what's strange. The P&L in my main...

Hi there, Futures newbie here. First day of trading NQ, satisfied with results. Looking at P&L statement, and I'm a bit confused... I thought IB charged $2.40 per contract/per trip. So it's $4.80 roundtrip per contract. However, after looking at my account info, it looks like the...

Researching this charting service for E-mini trading. Anyone has any positive or negative experiences? Reliability? Ease of Use? Thanks for your time.

El Cazador, I like to look at the OHLC info for the bars to do various studies, like Fib ratios. That's why it's important for me. I like the way LiveCharts looks, it's just annoying that I can't click on a bar to find out the prices.

HI El Cazador, Thanks for the suggestion. I wouldn't mind LiveCharts if I could only click on the bars and find out that bar's Open, High, Low, and Close info... Is that not possible, or am I missing something fundamental? Thanks.

I would prefer <= $100 a month if possble... Anything else within this budget range? Thanks.

Ddefina, Thanks for your thoughts. Does QCharts Basic (the $79.95 a month version) come with live streaming NQ data, or is that an add-on? I was hoping to spend about half of that price, but if I may have no choice. :) Best wishes.

Thanks for all the replies. Let me clarify: I already have software for historical data studies on all time frames. I do all my backtesting and datamining in Wealth-Lab, Excel, and other software. I'm looking for a package that I can make live, intraday trading decisions to. Something...

Hello, I'm still looking for a solution to chart intraday NQ data. So far I've tried: 1) QuoteTracker: IQFeed has Futures, but QT doesn't support backfill, it's useless. 2) LiveCharts: Nice looking charts, but drawing lines is a pain. Also, is there an easy way to determine OHLC...

Hi Trader99, Sometimes when one asks questions, one only seeks confirmation to a decision he has already made. From your posting, I sense that you are ready to go back to a steady job with benefits. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that! People are built differently. The truth is...

Brutus, Our situations are almost identical. I have also been trading 100 shares of QQQ on IB to train myself. At this point I don't feel that I lack discipline. I also understand risk and money management. My trading thus far has been at a break-even pace... I'm starting to wonder...

Nitro - I've enjoyed your probing remarks and optimisim. However, I personally think that you're over estimating how easy making $500k a year is. And I don't believe that most business owners make that much, unless they are super successful....and most businesses do not reach success of that...

Sabena, Are you saying that you've been lying all this time? If so, what was the point? I'm confused by this post: "I'm just a professional dreamer..........:0))) If you believe anything from what I have said, you must be really stupid..... really stupid." :confused:

I use QuoteTracker for stocks intraday charting... Is there a good service I can sign up for that will allow me to chart intraday NQ withint QuoteTracker? Thanks.

Hi everyone, You're totally right. I had a mental lapse and made a mistake. On the bright side, it's nice to know that the stops *are* working, haha. What confused me was the market order/stop not triggering right away as I transmitted it. The reason why I chose to (mistakenly) use Stops...