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can't button trader do what you're looking for?

depends on your style if swing-trading, zanger, www.chartpattern.com is your man, and if daytrading then www.highchartpatterns.com are your men. both are similar except zanger tries to hold 2 days to 2 weeks on average and hcp holds for 2 mins to 2 hrs. take your pick. i used to...

got to love the entertainment on et

I've been with www.highchartpatterns.com since 2006. They're cheap and excellent, best in their class methinks (momentum trading). The big BUT though is that they're not going to hold your hand and I'm not sure if newbies can make money off their picks.... Correct me if I'm wrong....

Not yet, wait for the panic

I don't do much, just usually let it sit there, but once in a while I take it out and buy some gadget that I considered too extravagant before. Shit like Iphones, etc. Things that you don't really need (esp if you have a perfectly good cell phone) but that are fun to buy.

lol, I knew that would come. No, but a fail-safe feature isn't necessarily a bad thing. At least 2-3x a year I lose 3-4G out of frustration where I could have walked away with 1G loss only... and almost always it comes on days in which I'm stressed over other reasons (fight with spouse...

that's so true....

I agree Mins, I'd much rather have this feature come from IB than a 3rd party. Someone put it up on their features poll and lets vote for it. If it comes from IB, its said and done, no way around it.

downloading as we speak, tx again chewbacca. Too bad they charge in Euros though, that should go up to about $150 USD a month in couple yrs the way the USD is dying....

tx chewbacca, I'll def check it out. One question -- is it reliable? Last thing I want is a 3rd party program to start screwing my orders....

I looked at buttontrader, yah it has it. I wish IB had this feature, obviously there are a lot of us who want it. Not sure if a broker would want to have it though, since ultimately it would mean less comms for them? but then again, if you blow out, you're not going to be trading either so...

tx, I'm not familiar with buttontrader. I thought it was mostly for futures?

Wonder if this could have happened at a US bank? I would hope that we have a somewhat more sophisticated system for catching shit like this...

You guys know of any software that works with IB that can manage risk? For example, at many prop firms you can set a max loss, so if you lose 1G in any given day, your positions are liquidated and you're shut out for the rest of the day. any way to get this with IB?

Great responses, now I know what to do. Many thanks. One more question -- if you use QT for your charts, you minimize TWS? And if so, you use integrated trading through QT? Or is that slower than using TWS straight? Also is IB data feed good enough, or do you need to use E-siggy or...

Which version works best in the long run , standalone, or web-based TWS. I have a fast cable connection. IB site seems to push the browser-based TWS as the best one. tia

Yes you're right. Making 300k a year is great and as you guys say, no reason to change one's comfort zone. No idea about how long he's been trading, his strategy, etc. Met him at a trader's hookup, talked for 10-20 minutes, and that was it. Made it sound so easy though for an instance I...

Tx for your answer. So if the ES is so liquid, and the guy is consistent, why not do 50lots? why always do 5?

Can you be a little more specific please.... how does it work -- how many $$ per contract per point on the ES?