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The title of the thread gives away my preference for the smooth movement of the ESTX50; the lower amount of noise in the price signal leads to better trade decision making on my part (as opposed to the hurry-up feeling of being behind the power curve). I have an idea of how I would rank US...

I read 2 of those threads, and "Is my career over" was different than "I lost $400,000". I had to plow through 50 pages with a lot of it being "dogpiling" (i.e. "How could you be so dumb?") in the career-over thread, but I re-learned about common mistakes that I thought I was past, and...

Selling short on a future is just like turning the monitor upside-down and going long. But shorting a stock is just a little different. Not unpatriotic or anything, and certainly not unprofitable when warranted, but I think there's a different character to it. All I'm getting at is that...

Sounds like you cut the loss a lot quicker than back when this thread was started. For me, after rule #1 about capital preservation, I'm gonna go with rule #2 -- if it's not a winner, change something. Hence the upcoming attempt at the DAX. Oh, and I think you're right about my entries...

Don't feel like the lone stranger there.... This thread helped me address some basic errors to eliminate propensity for huge loss. But I'm finding it almost impossible to "get in sync" with the ssslllooowww rhythm of the currency market -- if I could work from 4-hour bars and be...

Open account with IB -- lots of compatible software and they provide a good data feed (which would cost $ with eSignal, iqfeed, etc). Charting: IBCharts (free) or Quotetracker (free) or Sierra (almost free) all will work with the IB data feed; you want one of these because IB's platform...

Here's a quick dumb and dumber story on how this thread helped me. I just resumed FX trading after a long layoff; had 6 good sessions then 1 HUGE loss; good session summary is: 2 "large" wins (on my small scale); 2 small wins; 2 tiny losses. The wins were good entries (sometimes after a...

Neoticker is a great foundation for charting, programming and backtesting; eSignal is good but expensive data for it. Interactive Brokers has so many bits of software available, free and otherwise, that it's a great choice. You can do your FX trading through IB, but I'm still using the CMC...

Best bang for the buck because of: - excellent charting capabilities; - excellent programming capabilities; - excellent hook-up capabilities (I put my EOD data to a spreadsheet for review, then hit a hotkey and get the chart to view on Neoticker). The above looks like overstatement, but...

In the econ classes I took decades ago they taught that industries with fewer than 6 to 8 suppliers were oligopolies, and in oligopoly markets those few suppliers can engage in monopolistic pricing practices even without explicit collusion. Congress and the DOJ have seen fit to approve too...

Go. An extra middleman is always a bad thing.

The free one is IBCharts(www.ibcharts.com). It intrigued me enough to download it and it looks good. Haven't used it because no backfill from IB (its only feed for now), but another post rated it as good stuff. And in my shopping for cheap charts, sierra had many good reviews. But in the...

I've got both WL and NeoTicker, and I've programmed indicators in both, along with backtest systems in WL. NeoTicker is without doubt the better charting platform: I'm able to squeeze 3 charts per currency (short/med/long term) times 4 major currencies on my main trading screen. WL...

I've got a Shuttle and I like it because it's quiet. I upgraded it to 2.5 GHz and 768MB for trading (with an 80GB fluid bearing drive for continuous quiet use). If you go over 2.5 GHz the extra heat from the processor will have the single fan on the Shuttle running at high speed and then it's...

Start with an IB account because MANY add-ons are available (e.g. "trade mgmt" pkgs like AutoTrader, BracketTrader, ButtonTrader, FuturesTrader, ZeroLineTrader, etc., for e-mini trading). eSignal's Advanced Charting provides a STRAIGHTFORWARD javascript programming environment with MANY...

I've been a past user, current user or potential user of all but one of the products you tested and reported on. Thanks for the useful info -- it'll help me avoid software "gotchas" in the near future.

No, no affiliations here. Devoted to trading, through a more general interest in my bank balance (and this site has helped A LOT). I'm a newb and I feel like a full-time software evaluator/user with all the packages I've installed, tailored to my trading and then discarded after finding...

My usage of IB with hotkeys/shortcuts has hit a snag -- although I prefer trailing stops without profit targets, and that's what I used in testing, the capability of trailing stops WITH profit targets MUST be there, and IB only allows specification of trailing stop OR bracket order (the...

I originally put this on page 23 of another thread, but decided to give this thought a shot at its own thread: After daytrading stocks for a very short while with IB, using trailing stops by right-clicking a not-yet-transmitted order, I discovered (of necessity) that e-mini futures trading...

After daytrading stocks for a very short while with IB, using trailing stops by right-clicking a not-yet-transmitted order, I discovered (of necessity) that e-mini futures trading requires fast bracket order capability. I read the posts here to great advantage, and then tried: -...